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We’ve all known or at least suspected it, anyway — all that glittering sand and half-naked, nicely tanned people. And beer. It always goes down to getting laid and waking up shit-faced in the morning to the tune of some ancient version of rock and roll.

Today, it sounds like a spring-break splurge on the order of “Girls Gone Wild”: Drink huge quantities of beer, get wasted, indulge in gratuitous sex and pass out — then wake up the next morning with the music blaring and your friends praying that everything will turn out all right.

But back in 1470 B.C., this was the agenda for one of ancient Egypt’s most raucous rituals, the “festival of drunkenness,” which celebrated nothing less than the salvation of humanity. Archaeologists say they have found evidence amid the ruins of a temple in Luxor that the annual rite featured sex, drugs and the ancient equivalent of rock ‘n’ roll.

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