They Were Drunk Before They Built Civilization. Science Just Proved It.

Your body was built to handle alcohol. Not just tolerate it. Actually built for it. And the enzyme that makes this possible appeared 10 million years ago — long before any human being ever consciously decided to make a drink. The oldest confirmed alcohol production on Earth was not made by farmers or city builders. It was made by nomadic cave dwellers 13,000 years ago, in a burial cave in Israel, as an act of devotion to their dead. And it predates agriculture entirely. In this video we trace the complete story of humanity's relationship with alcohol — from prehistoric primates accidentally getting buzzed in ancient forests, to the Sumerians who created an entire goddess for beer, to the Egyptian pyramid builders who were paid in it, to the 1989 brewer who recreated a 3,800-year-old Sumerian recipe and found it still worked. The answer to when humans first drank alcohol will take you much further back than you think. #AncientHistory #AncientHumans #Alcohol #HumanEvolution #Prehistory #AncientEgypt #Mesopotamia #DidYouKnow #History #Science This video is for educational purposes only. #HumanEvolution #Archaeology #Smoking #AncientHistory #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Smoking #Prehistory