1335 BCE (Egypt or Mesopotamia)- Special sieves (for beer making) were found in the tomb of King Tutankhamen who died around this time. The ordinary citizens were laid to rest (buried) with small jars of beer.
Primary Documents: Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt:.
In 4000 BCE beer became a widespread in the Near East, when it appeared in a pictogram that two people had to drink the beer through a reed straw from a large pottery jar. This indicated that the ancient beer had many different substances such as grains, chaff, and other debris floating on the surface. People had to drink through the straws in order not to swallow any of these things.
A cuneiform tablet dated to around 2100 BCE found in the city of Nippur contained a pharmacopoeia; a list of medical recipes,based on beer. This comes to show that beer was very universal other than just consumption for self indulgence. It was also used for medical reasoning such as half an onion mixed with frothy beer was said to cure constipation.
Timeline: Wine in Greece and Rome.
9000-4000 BCE (Modern day Armenia and Northern Iran)- Archaeological evidence suggests that wine was produced in the Neolithic time period in the Zagros Mountains in the region that is modern day Armenia and North Iran.
6000 BCE (Modern day Armenia and Northern Iraq)- The invention of pottery is mainly used for storing, making, and serving wine. This is a very crucial step in the process of winemaking (or any alcohol fermentation).
5400 BCE (Zagros Mountains)- Earliest physical evidence for wine was found in a pottery jar that came from Hajji Firuz Tepe, a neolithic village in the Zagros Mountains. It was dated back to 5400 BCE.
3150 BCE (Egypt)- One of Egypt's earliest rulers, King Scorpion 1 was buried with around 700 jars of wine. .
3000 BCE (Egypt)- Pharaohs acquired a taste for wine and established their own limited domestic production.
323 BCE (Greece)- It was said that heavy wine drinking caused Alexander the Great's death of a "mysterious " illness.
