Egypt
Santa Cruz Sentinel
- Nubian Skeletons Reveal Secrets Of Ancient Times
The State News (Caleb Hordgren) Nubia was a kingdom just south of Egypt, and in medieval times, it was very influential in trade from the Mediterranean to sub-Saharan Africa because it controlled a large portion of the Nile, said Carolyn Hurst, a graduate...
- Mummies Tell History Of A ‘modern’ Plague
Past Horizons With photos and illustrations. Mummies from along the Nile are revealing how age-old irrigation techniques may have boosted the plague of schistosomiasis, a water-borne parasitic disease that infects an estimated 200 million people today....
- Brew Like The Ancient Egyptians
examiner.com Thanks to Tony Cagle's ArchaeoBlog for pointing me to this story: If you're trying to be thrifty in the midst of this recession, try brewing your own beer in the style of the ancient Egyptians. Their yeast cells have been preserved...
- Anthropologist Receives Top Award
Emory Wheel George Armelagos, professor and chair of anthropology at Emory, won the 2008 Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology, the highest honor given by the American Anthropological Association (AAA). . . Armelagos has been involved...
- Antibiotics In Nubian Beer
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/0516_050516_ancientbeer.html An intriguing article on the National Geographic website about a study of human bones suggests that ancient Nubians benefited from antibiotic properties in the clays from which...
Egypt
Medicinal beer in Nubia
Santa Cruz Sentinel
I need a beer.
It's a phrase uttered by many contemporary workers after a long day at the office, but new research shows that ancient cultures were probably using the alcoholic beverage to treat much more than the stress of everyday life.
Anthropologists have found that thousands of years before the 1928 discovery of penicillin, people in ancient Nubia were using beer as an antibiotic to treat everything from gum disease to infected wounds.
It has been known for some time that the kingdom of Nubia, located south of Egypt in present-day Sudan, valued its brewers. More recently, however, scientists began to suspect that Nubian beer may have been brewed to contain more than just alcohol.
The suspicion arose after archeologists unearthed some unusual physical evidence. In 1980, George Armelagos, an anthropology professor at Emory University in Atlanta, led a team that discovered what seemed to be the antibiotic tetracycline in nearly 2,000-year-old Nubian bones.
- Nubian Skeletons Reveal Secrets Of Ancient Times
The State News (Caleb Hordgren) Nubia was a kingdom just south of Egypt, and in medieval times, it was very influential in trade from the Mediterranean to sub-Saharan Africa because it controlled a large portion of the Nile, said Carolyn Hurst, a graduate...
- Mummies Tell History Of A ‘modern’ Plague
Past Horizons With photos and illustrations. Mummies from along the Nile are revealing how age-old irrigation techniques may have boosted the plague of schistosomiasis, a water-borne parasitic disease that infects an estimated 200 million people today....
- Brew Like The Ancient Egyptians
examiner.com Thanks to Tony Cagle's ArchaeoBlog for pointing me to this story: If you're trying to be thrifty in the midst of this recession, try brewing your own beer in the style of the ancient Egyptians. Their yeast cells have been preserved...
- Anthropologist Receives Top Award
Emory Wheel George Armelagos, professor and chair of anthropology at Emory, won the 2008 Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology, the highest honor given by the American Anthropological Association (AAA). . . Armelagos has been involved...
- Antibiotics In Nubian Beer
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/0516_050516_ancientbeer.html An intriguing article on the National Geographic website about a study of human bones suggests that ancient Nubians benefited from antibiotic properties in the clays from which...