Entitled: "Have another" shows a woman sitting on a bottle, holding a glass filled with an alcoholic beverage with arms raised as if in a toast. Beer is the world's most widely consumed and likely the oldest alcoholic beverage; it is the third most popular drink overall, after water and tea. Beer is one of the world's oldest prepared beverages, dating back to the early Neolithic or 9500 BC, when cereal was first farmed, and is recorded in the written history of ancient Iraq and ancient Egypt. Almost any substance containing sugar can naturally undergo alcoholic fermentation. It is likely that many cultures, on observing that a sweet liquid could be obtained from a source of starch, independently invented beer. Archeologists speculate that beer was instrumental in the formation of civilizations. Lithograph published by Koerner & Hayes, circa 1885-1910.