1169: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the lost 5,000-year-old megabrewery of ancient Egypt. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
Image: Ancient Egyptian clay pots for brewing beery. Screen grab, Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents, in re: A huge beer brewery, over 5,000 years old, near the Nile south of Cairo. King unified Egypt in the First Dynastic period. Eight enormous production units, 65 feet long. Found a Roman soldier’s pay slip near Masada: Gaius Maseus, was left broke because they deducted food, barley, leather, clothes—he was thus left broke at the end of the month. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/egypt-5000-year-old-industrial-scale-brewery-unearthed/