The first city, or civilisation, in history was Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia was also the first civilisation that ever made beer, at 7000 BCE. So the earliest records of beer were written around 7000 years ago by the Sumerians. The Sumerians began adapting beer, by adding berries, adding or reducing the amount of fermented grain, and many other experiments of the beverage. One seal (paper that is stuck on beer) around 4,000 years old is a Sumerian "Hymn to Ninkasi", the goddess of brewing. This "hymn" is also a recipe for making beer. A description of the making of beer on this ancient engraving in the Sumerian language is the earliest account of what is easily recognised as barley, followed by a pictograph of bread being baked, crumbled into water to form a mash, and then made into a drink, that is recorded as having made people feel "...wonderful and blissful". It could even be possible that bread was first baked to be a way to make beer that is easy to carry around. The Sumerians were probably the first people to brew beer. They had found a "divine drink" -- they felt it was a gift from the gods.
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