#Ancient Egypt
What pyramids, priests, and pyramid-builders ate.
- May 6, 2026
Why Ancient Egyptians Worked for Beer
In ancient Egypt, workers on the great pyramids were commonly paid with beer instead of coins.
- April 30, 2026
Beer as Wages: Ancient Egypt's Ingenious System
In Ancient Egypt, a civilization renowned for its monumental achievements, workers were often compensated with beer as their primary form of payment.
- March 15, 2026
Beer Was the Salary. It Made Perfect Sense.
In roughly 2450 BCE, the workers constructing the pyramids at Giza received a daily wage of approximately ten loaves of bread and four to five ceramic jugs of beer.
- April 19, 2026
Before Refrigerators: The Art of Food Preservation
In 2000 BCE, ancient Egyptians created a highly advanced preservation technique that would influence civilizations for millennia.
- April 4, 2026
Why Beer Belongs in the History of Work
Beer wasn't a luxury for the workers who built the Pyramids. It was lunch — paid out in jars, drunk on the job, accounted for in calories before it was accounted for in coin.