BEER. IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Ancient Nubians Made Antibiotic Beer. “Chemical analysis of the bones of ancient Sudanese Nubians who lived nearly 2000 years ago shows they were ingesting the antibiotic tetracycline on a regular basis, likely from a special brew of beer. The find is the strongest yet that antibiotics were previously discovered by humans before Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928. . . . When and why the antibiotic beer secret was lost is a mystery. It is not the first technology to disappear with the disappearance of cultures.”