{"id":552106,"date":"2023-02-15T11:10:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T08:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/iraq-dig-uncovers-5000-year-old-pub-restaurant\/"},"modified":"2023-02-15T11:10:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T08:10:01","slug":"iraq-dig-uncovers-5000-year-old-pub-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/iraq-dig-uncovers-5000-year-old-pub-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"#Iraq dig uncovers 5,000 year old pub restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a239aff547ce\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" 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data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2023\/archaeologists-working.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Archaeologists working in Iraq have uncovered the remains of a tavern dating back nearly 5,000 years they hope will throw new light on the emergence of the world's first cities.\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2023\/archaeologists-working.jpg\" alt=\"Archaeologists working in Iraq have uncovered the remains of a tavern dating back nearly 5,000 years they hope will throw new li\" title=\"Archaeologists working in Iraq have uncovered the remains of a tavern dating back nearly 5,000 years they hope will throw new light on the emergence of the world's first cities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                Archaeologists working in Iraq have uncovered the remains of a tavern dating back nearly 5,000 years they hope will throw new light on the emergence of the world&#8217;s first cities.<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Archaeologists in southern Iraq have uncovered the remains of a tavern dating back nearly 5,000 years they hope will illuminate the lives of ordinary people in the world&#8217;s first cities.<\/p>\n<section class=\"article-banner first-banner ads-336x280\"><!-- \/4988204\/Phys_Story_InText_Box --><br \/>\n      <\/section>\n<p>The US-Italian team made the find in the ruins of ancient Lagash, northeast of the modern city of Nasiriyah, which was already known to have been one of the first urban centres of the Sumerian civilisation of ancient Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The joint team from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pisa discovered the remains of a primitive refrigeration system, a large oven, benches for diners and around 150 serving bowls.<\/p>\n<p>Fish and animal bones were found in the bowls, alongside evidence of beer drinking, which was widespread among the Sumerians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we&#8217;ve got the refrigerator, we&#8217;ve got the hundreds of vessels ready to be served, benches where people would sit&#8230; and behind the refrigerator is an oven that would have been used&#8230; for cooking food,&#8221; project director Holly Pittman told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we understand this thing to be is a place where people\u2014regular people\u2014could come to eat and that is not domestic,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We call it a tavern because beer is by far the most common drink, even more than water, for the Sumerians&#8221;, she said, noting that in one of the temples excavated in the area &#8220;there was a beer recipe that was found on a cuneiform tablet&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2023\/archaeologists-found-l.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2023\/archaeologists-found-l.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Archaeologists found large numbers of pottery shards alongside fish and aminal bones they believe are the remains of bowls used to serve meals in the ancient tavern.\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2023\/archaeologists-found-l.jpg\" alt=\"Archaeologists found large numbers of pottery shards alongside fish and aminal bones they believe are the remains of bowls used \" title=\"Archaeologists found large numbers of pottery shards alongside fish and aminal bones they believe are the remains of bowls used to serve meals in the ancient tavern.\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                Archaeologists found large numbers of pottery shards alongside fish and aminal bones they believe are the remains of bowls used to serve meals in the ancient tavern.<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98Regular_people\"><\/span>&#8216;Regular people&#8217;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The world&#8217;s first cities developed in what is now southern Iraq, after agricultural surpluses from the domestication of the first crops allowed the emergence of new <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> classes not engaged directly in food production.<\/p>\n<p>The Lagash area, close to the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was dubbed the &#8220;garden of the gods&#8221; by the ancients for its fertility and gave rise to a string of Sumerian cities dating back to the early dynastic period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lagash was one of the important cities of southern Iraq,&#8221; Iraqi archaeologist Baker Azab Wali told AFP, after working with the US-Italian team on the site.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Its inhabitants depended on agriculture, livestock, fishing, but also on the exchange of goods,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pittman said the team was eager to learn more about the occupations of the people who used the tavern in its heyday in around 2700 BC to throw new light on the social structure of the first cities.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2023\/the-landscape-around-a.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2023\/the-landscape-around-a.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"The landscape around ancient Lagash is now desert but 5,000 years ago it was lush farmland, part of the 'Fertile Crescent' where crops were first domesticated.\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2023\/the-landscape-around-a.jpg\" alt=\"The landscape around ancient Lagash is now desert but 5,000 years ago it was lush farmland, part of the 'Fertile Crescent' where\" title=\"The landscape around ancient Lagash is now desert but 5,000 years ago it was lush farmland, part of the 'Fertile Crescent' where crops were first domesticated.\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                The landscape around ancient Lagash is now desert but 5,000 years ago it was lush farmland, part of the &#8216;Fertile Crescent&#8217; where crops were first domesticated.<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Detailed analysis would need to be carried out on the samples taken during the excavations the team completed in November.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is so much that we do not know about this early period of the emergence of cities and that is what we are investigating,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope to be able to characterise the neighbourhoods and the kinds of occupation&#8230; of the people that lived in this big city who were not the elite,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most of the work done at the other sites focuses on kings and priests. 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