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In Egypt, early finds date from c. 4800 –4400 BC in the Nile delta area, and from c. 3800–3600 BC in Upper Egypt. The pea was also present in Georgia in the 5th millennium BC. Farther east, the finds are younger. Peas were present in Afghanistan c. 2000 BC, in Harappan civilization around modern-day Pakistan and western- and northwestern ...
The cuisine of ancient Egypt covers a span of over three thousand years, but still retained many consistent traits until well into Greco-Roman times. The staples of both poor and wealthy Egyptians were bread and beer, often accompanied by green-shooted onions, other vegetables, and to a lesser extent meat, game and fish.
This site was theorized to be more recent than other excavated sites in Wadi Kubbaniya due to the discovery of an Ounan point; [9] these points have been found in other areas of Egypt and were dated to the early to mid-Holocene. [9] In Area A, during excavations they found 2 hearths, 19 postholes, and what remained of a pit. [9]
The earliest evidence of pigeon peas in Africa was found in Ancient Egypt with the presence of seeds in Egyptian tombs dating back to around 2,200 BCE. [55] From eastern Africa, cultivation spread further west and south through the continent, where by means of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, it reached the Americas around the 17th century. [38]
The Neolithic founder crops (or primary domesticates) are the eight plant species that were domesticated by early Holocene (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) farming communities in the Fertile Crescent region of southwest Asia, and which formed the basis of systematic agriculture in the Middle East, North Africa, India ...
Ancient Egyptian cattle were of four principal different types: long-horned, short-horned, polled and zebuine. [17] The earliest evidence for cattle in Egypt is from the Faiyum region, dating back to the fifth millennium BC. [17] In the New Kingdom, hump-backed zebuine cattle from Syria were introduced to Egypt, and seem to have replaced ...
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Some of the plants that were analyzed were citrullus lanatus, or egusi melon/watermelon, found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun, cajanus cajan, or pigeon pea, found in a 12th Dynasty tomb at Thebes, vigna unguiculata, or cowpea, found in ancient Egypt during the 5th Dynasty, and ricinus communis, or castor bean, found in Pre-Dynastic contexts. [80]