neuroticpantomime:

friendly-neighborhood-ehrhardt:

tilthat:

TIL the world’s oldest beer advertisement was on a Mesopotamian Stone Tablet dated approximately 4000 BC. It read “Drink Elba, the beer with the heart of a lion” and was accompanied by a “large breasted woman holding goblets of beer in each hand”

via ift.tt

I mean in that time and place, it was mostly women in charge of beer production, sale, and profit right? Maybe that large-breasted woman was the brewster herself! ¯_(ツ)_/ ¯

Having followed the links, it turns out to be more like “anthropologist known as ‘The Indiana Jones of Beer’ claimed to have found this tablet but no photos or evidence are extant…”