Drinking Scene, Woman Bending Over to Sip Beer Through a Straw
One of the artifacts illegally taken in 2004 by Department of Defense contractors that was seized during a 2006 investigation and returned to the government of Iraq on July 7, 2011 in a Washington, D.C. ceremony. Beer in ancient Mesopotamia was unfiltered and necessitated drinking from a straw to avoid solids remaining from the fermentation process.