This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations for workers ... system of pictographs into a flexible medium with which the Sumerian (unrelated to anything) and Babylonian (related to modern ...

A big piece of evidence for one of these beverages is a clay tablet from ... these images seem to illustrate ancient breweries for making beer. Other Sumerian texts show they had ...

women were mostly responsible for Sumerian beer production). The tablet describes Ninkasi baking a barley-based bread called ...

Among the world’s first known writing samples, clay tablets that contain Sumerian cuneiform, are beer sales receipts and brewing instructions, the latter in a poem that celebrates Ninkasi ...

Pouring a coffee, Zarnkow tells me that his plan today is to re-create beer from a 4,000-year-old Sumerian recipe. Zarnkow, who started his career as a brewer’s apprentice, is also an eminent ...

Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see. By The Learning Network Look closely at this image, stripped of ...

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There's nothing quite like a cold, crisp beer on a crisp autumn evening. Fall gives us a veritable cornucopia of seasonal flavors and styles, from pumpkin beers to harvest ciders to more ...