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This is a list of ancient dishes, prepared foods and beverages that have been recorded as originating in ancient history. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with Sumerian cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing from the protoliterate period around 3,000 to 2,900 years BCE.
Kutach is mentioned in a variety of Jewish sources. The Mishnah mentions it in Pesachim 3:1, as an example of chametz.. The Mishneh Torah mentions it in a few discussions, as an example of chametz [1] and as an example of dairy in discussions [2] regarding the prohibition of eating meat with milk.
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The Urra=hubullu (𒄯𒊏 𒄷𒇧𒈝 ur 5-ra — ḫu-bul-lu 4; or HAR-ra = ḫubullu, [1] or Gegenstandslisten ("lists of objects") [1]) is a major Babylonian glossary or "encyclopedia". [2] It consists of Sumerian and Akkadian lexical lists ordered by topic. [3] [4] The canonical version extends to 24 tablets, and contains almost 10,000 ...
The House of Egibi was a family from within ancient Babylonia who were, amongst other things, involved in mercantile activities.. The family’s financial activities are known to archaeologists via an archive of about 1,700 clay tablets spanning five generations of the family, dating to a period from around 600 to 482 BCE.
The methods were similar to those employed by 14th century scholars at University of Oxford's Merton College, he said. Babylon was an important city in ancient Mesopotamia, located in Iraq about ...
The Babyloniaca is a text written in the Greek language by the Babylonian priest and historian Berossus in the 3rd century BCE. Although the work is now lost, it survives in substantial fragments from subsequent authors, especially in the works of the fourth-century CE Christian author and bishop Eusebius, [1] and was known to a limited extent in learned circles as late as late antiquity. [2]
Bappir was a Sumerian twice-baked barley bread that was primarily used in ancient Mesopotamian beer brewing.Historical research done at Anchor Brewing Co. in 1989 (documented in Charlie Papazian's Home Brewer's Companion (ISBN 0-380-77287-6)) reconstructed a bread made from malted barley and barley flour with honey, spices [1] and water and baked until hard enough to store for long periods of ...