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Debate rages over which languages can claim to have the earliest origin
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Debate rages over which languages can claim to have the earliest origin
Debate rages over which languages can claim to have the earliest origin
The Office of Communications Feb. 16, 2021 1:06 p.m. Deborah Vischak, assistant professor of art and archaeology at Princeton, and a team of American and Egyptian archaeologists excavating at the site of Abydos in southern Egypt have uncovered evidence of the world’s oldest known industrial-scale beer production facility. Pictured: Large conical ceramic vats were set into the floor of the brewery structure and supported on the exterior by vertically set mud rods, or “fire legs,” necessary because of the weight of the vats’ liquid contents. Photo by Ayman Damarany for the North Abydos ...