It's an old Fredl Fesl joke that after more than 30 years could be more topical than ever.
A discovery in Egypt caused a stir.
Sohag - The Bavarian musician legend Fredl Fesl once made the joke before his famous song "Das Lied vom Rausch" (1977).
“The beer is very old.
The ancient Egyptians invented beer.
They built beer cellars like this - the beer amides ”.
Fesl constructed several beer word games, the one with the "beer amides" is very well known - and could actually come true in 2021.
Egypt: Discovery of beer suggests "oldest brewery"
Because archaeologists have discovered a beer brewery that is over 5000 years old in the south of Egypt - as if Fesl had suspected it over 30 years ago.
The finders consider the production method to be ultra-modern.
The German Press Agency writes that, according to the Ministry of Tourism, a team of Egyptian and US experts found around 40 clay pots arranged in two rows during excavations at a burial site in Abydos in the south of the country.
They therefore point to the mass production of beer.
Beer discovery in Egypt: first “high-performance brewery in the world”?
The brewery is estimated to date from the time of King Narmer, who united the two kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt and founded the first dynasty, according to the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mustafa al-Wasiri.
He thinks it is the first "high-performance brewery in the world".
According to him, the brewery consisted of eight large areas with production facilities.
Each sector contained 40 earthenware pots.
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A picture of the excavation site and the supposedly "oldest brewery" in the world.
© Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities / AFP
The ancient Egyptians did not die of thirst, if one believes the studies by archaeologist Matthew Adams from New York University and Deborah Vischak from Princeton: 22,400 liters of beer could be produced at once.
It could have been specially produced for "rituals in the burial places of the Egyptian kings".
Egypt: Not the first excavation in 2021
It is not the first discovery in 2021. More and more excavations are being reported, like a golden tongue in search of Cleopatra's grave *.
The German Press Agency writes: Egypt hopes with its archaeological discoveries to boost tourism, which had recovered slightly in 2019 after years of political conflicts and attacks.
The corona pandemic plunged the industry into a new deep crisis.
(ank with dpa) * tz.de is part of the Ippen network
