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Researchers analyzing ancient cuneiform tablets recently unveiled a 4,000-year-old beer receipt<\/a> \u2014 offering a rare glimpse into Mesopotamian beer culture.<\/p>\n

The news was announced in a University of Copenhagen news release in April.<\/p>\n

Mesopotamia, often called the “cradle of civilization,” was centered in parts of modern-day Iraq and Syria thousands of years ago.<\/p>\n

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Researchers from the university and the National Museum of Denmark recently analyzed, identified and digitized the ancient texts as part of a joint project called “Hidden Treasures.”<\/p>\n

The tablet had been sitting in the National Museum’s archives<\/a>, and the release said the texts had not been studied in recent times.<\/p>\n

Of particular interest is NMC 7962, a tablet detailing beer deliveries.<\/p>\n

The beer tablet dates to the Ur III period, around 2112-2004 B.C.<\/p>\n

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NMC 7962 was previously published by Danish Sumerologist Thorkild Jacobsen before researchers re-analyzed it during the digitization project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Beer receipts were common administrative records in ancient Mesopotamia, said Troels Pank Arb\u00f8ll, an associate professor of Assyriology at the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

Arb\u00f8ll \u2014 the only professor who specializes in Assyriology at the university \u2014 told Fox News Digital the records were intended “to record how much\u00a0beer\u00a0was delivered or distributed by an institution.”<\/p>\n

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“Beer\u00a0was a central part of Mesopotamian culture from the invention of writing in the late 4th millennium BCE until the end of cuneiform culture,” he noted.<\/p>\n

“It was considered an integral part of urbanized life.”<\/p>\n

The receipt differentiates between high-quality and “ordinary” beer.<\/p>\n

“The concrete example lists different types of beer delivered on two successive days: 16 liters of high-quality beer and 55 liters of ordinary beer, followed by 12 liters of high-quality beer and 40 liters of ordinary beer,” he said.<\/p>\n

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One liter of beer is just under three standard 12-ounce beer cans \u2014 meaning that the delivery totaled over 30 gallons over two days.<\/p>\n

“It is not clear from the text who exactly it was intended for, although it was received by the provincial governor, as his cylinder seal is impressed on the clay tablet in question,” Arb\u00f8ll noted.<\/p>\n

As for what the beer may have tasted like, Arb\u00f8ll said there are some clues.<\/p>\n

“Early on, most\u00a0beer\u00a0was produced on the basis of barley<\/a>, though it could in some periods include, for example, date syrup or emmer wheat in the production process,” he said.<\/p>\n

The drink also contained some sediment, and depictions show it being consumed through hollow reeds used as straws, he said.<\/p>\n

Some have attempted to reproduce Mesopotamian beer<\/a>, particularly at the University of Chicago, Arb\u00f8ll said.<\/p>\n

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Mesopotamian beer “was probably not high in alcohol<\/a>, though it was nutritious,” he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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