Sumerians

(Newser) - The reason your clock has 60 minutes in an hour goes back about 5,000 years. In a deep dive for the BBC , Jocelyn Timperley traces modern timekeeping to ancient Mesopotamia, where early civilizations developed a base-60 number system that still shapes how we measure time today. The Sumerians' choice...

(Newser) - Brewing collaborations are not unusual in the world of craft beer. Micro-brewers often team up with other brewers, food producers ... sometimes even TV shows . But a small number of brewers have also been hooking up with archaeologists to recreate long-forgotten booze recipes. Most recently, Great Lakes Brewing Company in Ohio...