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Craft brewer from Biratenu, the Jerusalem Beer Center, Shmuel Naky, right, pours beer during a press conference in Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 22, 2019. Israeli researchers raised a glass Wednesday to celebrate a long-brewing project of making beer and mead using yeasts extracted from ancient clay vessels -- some over 5,000 years old. Archaeologists and microbiologists teamed up to study yeast colonies found in microscopic pores in ancient pottery fragments. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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Israeli researchers raised a glass Wednesday to celebrate a long-brewing project of making beer and mead using yeasts extracted from ancient clay vessels —some over 5,000 years old.

By ILAN BEN ZION, Associated Press May 23, 2019