The yeast lives: Aharon Maier of TAU holding a Philistine beer vessel from Gath Credit: Yaniv Berman, courtesy of the IAA
Scientists found microbes that survived for thousands of years inside pores in the clay of ancient pottery used to make and store beer and wine
If you want to walk like a drunk Egyptian, look no further than a new study by Israeli researchers who have detected yeasts used to make beer as much as 5,000 years ago - and whose microscopic descendants still survive in the clay of the vessels used to produce or store the drink.
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