Created: 18.06.2021

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Beer in Mesopotamia and EgyptBeer has been around in Egypt at least until 2650 BCE, where several varieties of beer are mentioned in the "Pyramid Texts."Beer has been around in Mesopotamia until at least 4000 BCE when a pictogram found at Tepe Gawra depicts two figures drinking beer through straws from a large pottery jar.Around 9000 BCE in the Fertile Crescent, people began deliberately cultivating barley and wheat, two main ingredients of beer.First settlements in the Fertile Crescent began to emerge around 10,000 BCE after people in the Near East began to switch from hunter-gatherers to farmers. Around 2500 BCE, the Pyramids of Giza were being constructed in Egypt and the laborers were paid in bread and beer. Mesopotamia/ Fertile CrescentArabian DesertSahara DesertMediterranean SeaAnatoliaRed SeaPersian GulfEgyptNile RiverZagros MountainsEuphrates RiverTigris RiverMap KeyOriginDiffusionNations/ Civilizations RiversLarger Bodies of Water Mountain Ranges Deserts
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