This clay tablet, which dates back to 3100-3000 BC in Mesopotamia, shows the allocation of beer, according to The British Museum. The symbol for beer is “an upright jar with pointed base,” which you can spot three times in the image above.
In other mind-blowing news, Egyptian pyramid workers were paid with beer, according to Smithsonian magazine. Workers received four to five liters a day, per archaeologist Dr. Patrick McGovern, who added that “you would have had a rebellion on your hands if they’d run out. The pyramids might not have been built if there hadn’t been enough beer.”
