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A depiction from the Holkham Bible c. 1320 AD showing Noah and his sons making wine. Noah's wine is a colloquial allusion meaning alcoholic beverages. [1] The advent of this type of beverage and the discovery of fermentation are traditionally attributed, by explication from biblical sources, to Noah.
Wine in the ancient world had a maximum possible alcohol content of 11-12 percent before dilution and once diluted, the alcohol content was reduced to 2.75 or 3 percent. [6] Estimates of the wine of regional neighbors like the Greeks have dilution of 1:1 or 2:1 which place the alcohol content between 4-7 percent.
The ability to metabolize alcohol likely predates humanity with primates eating fermenting fruit. [2] The oldest verifiable brewery has been found in a prehistoric burial site in a cave near Haifa in modern-day Israel. Researchers have found residue of 13,000-year-old beer that they think might have been used for ritual feasts to honor the dead.
It is suggested that libation originated somewhere in the upper Nile Valley and spread out to other regions of Africa and the world. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] According to Ayi Kwei Armah , "[t]his legend explains the rise of a propitiatory custom found everywhere on the African continent: libation, the pouring of alcohol or other drinks as offerings to ...
“There are debates that mead is the oldest alcohol in the world, with the earliest record of a drink of fermented honey being in northern China in 6,500 B.C.,” Brad Nichols, director of ...
However, the attempt has often been made to prove that the wine referred to in the Bible was non-alcoholic. As the Bible had written in Genesis 9:21, the story of Noah's first experience with the wine he had made shows that it was intoxicating. [13] Genesis 9: 21. "And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent ...
The Speyer wine bottle most likely holds wine, and was originally found in 1867, in what is now the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany near Speyer, one of the oldest settlements in the area. The artifact was known until 2024 as "the world's oldest existing bottle of wine".
The oldest known tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament sold on Wednesday for $5.04 million, more than double its high estimate.. The stone, which dates back around ...