The Sumerians of Mesopotamia are considered the world's oldest civilisation, dating back to around 4000 BCE. The Sumerians ...
Sumerians were notable for their art and architecture, language (the oldest recorded), developed sciences like medicine and mathematics, as well as their diet — especially what they drank.
In fact, according to British academic and poet Paul MacDonald, the oldest joke in recorded history– which dates back to the Sumerians in 1900 BC – was a fart joke: "Something which has never ...