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# What a Mesopotamian beer receipt tells about ancient drinking culture
- URL: https://www.assyriapost.com/what-a-mesopotamian-beer-receipt-tells-about-ancient-drinking-culture/
- Published: 2026-04-23T20:27:51.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T20:27:51.000Z
- Description: People were enjoying libations with coworkers long before the modern-day office soiree. Danish researchers potentially discovered the world’s oldest beer tab inscribed on a four-millenia-old clay tablet.
- Author: The Assyria Post
- Tags: Curated stories

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“There are several texts at the National Museum of Denmark included in our volume that mention beer being used as payment to workers,” Dr. Troels Arbøll, from the University of Copenhagen, told the publication. “They are, therefore, administrative documents or receipts.”

Supplied by a man named “Ayalli,” the haul of giggle juice comprised 16 liters of “high-quality beer” and 55 liters of “ordinary beer.”

These party favors were reportedly slated to be divided among a coalition of workers, potentially for the ancient equivalent of a booze-fueled office bash.

This find might seem anachronistic, but Arbøll pointed out that beer “was presumably high in nutrition and considered an integral part of how these earliest urbanized populations lived.”

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