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 ...

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

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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 ...

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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 ...

Last year, Miller made a video showing how he brewed a 3,800-year-old Sumerian beer from a region of Mesopotamia. While he often follows historical recipes, for the ancient beverage he had to rely ...

Weekly Commentary (Updated Oct. 10, 2024): Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” opened the BFI London Film Festival and is off to the races with strong praise being shared for the Oscar winner’s World ...