Timeline: Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt.
10,000 BCE (Mesopotamia)-During the time period before 10,000 B.C.E. there was almost certainly no beer. It was discovered once the gathering of wild grains became at the end of the last ice age, in a region known as the Fertile Crescent. This area covers from Modern day Egypt up to the Mediterranean coast to the southeast corner of Turkey, and then to the border between Iraq and Iran.
9000 BCE (Fertile Crescent)- In the Fertile Crescent, people began cultivating barley and wheat deliberately, rather than gathering grains for them to have to eat and to store for later.
7000-5000 BCE (Fertile Crescent)- Farming spread throughout the Fertile Crescent , as more plants and animals were domesticated new irrigation techniques were developed. Which in turn created more beer.
6000 BCE (Mesopotamia)- Many perishable items could not be stored for a long amount of time without pottery which was not emerged until 6000 BCE.
4000 BCE (Mesopotamia)-Beer was widespread in the Near East by 4,000 B.C.E. it appears in a pictogram from Mesopotamia, which is known as modern day Iraq.
3400 BCE (Mesopotamia)-The first examples of writing date around this time, this was known as cuneiform. .
2350 BCE (Egypt)- Documents from the reign of Sargon, one of a series of kings from the region of Akkad who united and ruled Sumer's rival city-states and referred to beer as the "bride price " a wedding payment made by the groom's family given to the bride's family.
2100 BCE (Mesopotamia)- A cuneiform tablet from Nippur contained a pharmacopoeia; a list of medical recipes, based on beer. This shows that beer was not only used for drinking but also medical remedies.
2000 BCE (Mesopotamia)-almost the entire population in the southern part of Mesopotamia was living in larger city-states such as Uruk, Ur, Lagash, Eridu, and Nippur. Also around this time in 2700 BCE Gilgamesh was a Sumerian king who ruled the city-state of Uruk.
