The World's Oldest Brewery

As someone who enjoys a cold beer now and then, I found this story quite interesting. Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the world's oldest brewery, about 5,000 years old. And it was a large brewery, not just a few pots in the back of a market stall. 

According to Waziry, the brewery consisted of eight large areas which were used as “units for beer production”.

Each sector contained about 40 earthenware pots arranged in two rows.

A mixture of grains and water used for beer production was heated in the vats, with each basin “held in place by levers made of clay placed vertically in the form of rings”.

 I remember reading somewhere that beer production may have been the major driver of early agriculture. This seems to bear out that theory.