This article was sent to me by several people. (Why they all thought of me when reading this, I have no idea.)

The article sites findings, not from some frat boys writing a paper for Archeology 101, but actual scientists and archeologists from Johns Hopkins University. It begins:

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.

Apparently thanks are in order. We have been saving humanity every weekend for years now.