Archaeologists have identified the world’s oldest-known drinking straws — and they were a far cry from the paper ones you get to slurp up your McDonald’s milkshake.
Made of gold and silver and often decorated with a bull figurine, each straw ran to three-feet-long and was used to sip beer from communal bowls at banquets.
The eight tubes — which date back more than 5,000 years — were first unearthed from Maikop kurgan, a Bronze Age burial mound in Southern