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St John Simpson, « Drinking alcohol in Mesopotamia », Sociétés humaines du Proche-Orient ancien, ID : 10.58079/b5ou
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Imbibing alcohol through a straw is a scene shown on Early Dynastic Mesopotamian and Dilmunite glyptic and long assumed to be a Sumerian invention (Figure 1) ((https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSKihUGnsz0 [accessed 28th April 2023])). Figure 1. Reconstruction of a Sumerian feast (detail from Life magazine, 1956) Modern consumption studies indicate that drinking in this manner does not directly affect your absorption rate but does mean you can drink faster and thus feel the effect more quickl...