He recreated a beverage that once flowed freely in the courts of pharaohs and was consumed daily by average ancient Egyptians. The beer he made was from yeast that was almost 3,000 years old. The ...

He’s fond of citing the role of beer in ancient workplaces. “For the pyramids, each worker got a daily ration of four to five liters,” he says loudly, perhaps for Calagione’s benefit.

But ancient cave dwellers weren’t sitting around the fire quaffing crisp lagers and hazy IPAs. Archaeological evidence shows that beer took thousands of years to evolve into what we drink today.

Microscopic analysis of charred, shapeless lumps from archaeological sites revealed ancient cereal grains that may have undergone malting to make beer. Amanda was an associate editor at The Scientist, ...

Ancient Wari leaders used psychedelic beer to forge alliances and expand their empire, new archaeological data suggests, revealing early social control through psychoactive substances.

Today, beer brewing and wine making are huge, enormously profitable agricultural industries. These industries developed from ancient and empirical knowledge from many different cultures around the ...

Ancient Greek warriors even grated goat cheese onto their beer. When the Inca drank chicha out of wooden cups called keros—like this 17th-century one—they often stirred not strawberries but ...