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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.
The collection holds Babylonian clay tablet YBC 7289 (c. 1800–1600 BC). [1] The tablet displays an approximation of the square root of 2 . Comprising some 45,000 items, the Yale Babylonian Collection is an independent branch of the Yale University Library housed on the Yale University campus in Sterling Memorial Library at New Haven ...
Nawal Nasrallah is a U.S.-based Iraqi food writer, food historian, English literature scholar, and translator from Arabic into English. [1] She is best known for her cookbook featuring Iraqi cuisine, entitled Delights from the Garden of Eden, and for editions of medieval Arabic cookbooks, including Annals of the Caliphs’ Kitchens, an annotated translation of the tenth-century, Abbasid-era ...
Sumerian clay tablets dating from the 3rd millennium BCE mention various plants, including thyme. King Merodach-Baladan II (722–710 BC) of Babylonia grew many spices and herbs (Ex: cardamom, coriander, garlic, thyme, saffron, and turmeric). The Babylonian moon god, Sin, was thought to control medicinal plants. [1]
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]
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 inscriptions are believed to have originated in the ancient Babylonian city of Sippar. The post 4,000-Year-Old Babylonian Tablets Containing Evil Omens Finally Deciphered first appeared on ...
It is a selection of myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria that Spence found interesting or considered essential to a popular reader. He aims for this book to be "a popular account of the religion and mythology of ancient Babylonia and Assyria". [1] The book begins with an introduction chapter, which is also the longest chapter of the book.