The Ancient Egyptian Festival Where Everyone Got Blackout Drunk

How Did Ancient Egyptians Get Drunk? Once a year, ancient Egyptians walked into a temple — a holy house of a god — and drank themselves unconscious. On purpose. As a religious duty. The priests didn't stop them. The priests were doing it too. Welcome to the Festival of Drunkenness. But it's only the beginning, because the Egyptians had a relationship with alcohol that ran through every part of their lives. They were paid in beer. They prayed with it. They medicated with it. They literally built the pyramids on it — the workers got daily rations of several liters a day. In this video, we pour into it all: the thick, soupy "liquid bread" beer that everyone (including kids) drank for breakfast, the pharaohs' shockingly sophisticated wine labels, the world's oldest hangover cure (a necklace of boiled leaves), and the wild myth behind the holiest party in Egypt — the time beer literally saved humanity from a genocidal lion-headed goddess. One of the most disciplined civilizations in history decided that once a year, everybody should get absolutely hammered for God. Here's why. 👉 Watch to discover how the ancient Egyptians really got drunk — and why they called it sacred. #AncientEgypt #History #Beer #Egypt #AncientHistory