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The world's oldest known evidence of the production of bread-like foodstuff has been found at Shubayqa 1, a 14,400-year-old site in Jordan's northeastern desert, 4,000 years before the emergence of agriculture in Southwest Asia. [4]
Charred crumbs of "unleavened flat bread-like products" made by Natufian hunter-gatherers, likely from wild wheat, wild barley and tubers between 11,600 and 14,600 years ago have been found at the archaeological site of Shubayqa 1 in the Black Desert in Jordan. These remains predate the earliest-known making of bread from cultivated wheat by ...
Among the breads popular in Middle Eastern countries are "pocket" pita bread in the Levant and Egypt, and the flat tannur bread in Iraq. The oldest known kind of bread, found by archaeologists in the Syrian Desert (modern-day southern Syria and northern Jordan), dates back 14,000 years. It was a sort of unleavened flatbread made with several ...
Excavations in Turkey recently uncovered the abandoned dough —and discovered the “world’s oldest bread.” Archaeologists found the palm-sized, spongy substance near a destroyed oven at the ...
The oldest evidence of bread-making has been found in a 14,500-year-old Natufian site in Jordan's northeastern desert. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Around 10,000 BC, with the dawn of the Neolithic age and the spread of agriculture, grains became the mainstay of making bread.
The place is called Sossusvlei in Namib-Naukluft National Park in the middle of what researchers consider the world’s oldest desert — formed between 55 and 80 million years ago when dinosaurs ...
Around the oven, archeologists found wheat, barley, pea seeds and a palm-sized, round, “spongy” residue, it said in a press release Wednesday. Analyses determined that the organic residue was ...
Bread [19] [20] [21] – the oldest known bread is from 14,000 years ago in Jordan. [22] Flatbread [23] Focaccia – dates to ancient Rome [24] [25] Mantou – dates to 307 BCE – 250 BCE [26] Chutney [27] Congee [28] Curry [29] Fig-cake (develah) – eaten by Jews in antiquity, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and in the Jerusalem Talmud; Fish ...