The American Journal of Physical Anthropology reports that the antibiotic tetracycline was found in bones of a Nubian mummy buried 1,600 years ago in Sudan — long before scientists discovered tetracycline, in 1948.
But so what?
Nubians were skilled brewers. A bacterium, Streptomyces, secrets Tetracycline. So researchers believe that Nubians purposely made medicinal beer by using grain contaminated with antibiotic-producing Streptomyces bacteria.
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