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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 ...
Archeologists in Turkey say they have discovered the world’s oldest known bread, dating back to 6600 BC. ... A largely destroyed oven structure was found in an area called “Mekan 66,” where ...
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.
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In 2018, charred bread crumbs were found at a Natufian site called Shubayqa 1 in Jordan (in Harrat ash Shaam, the Black Desert) dating to 12,400 BC, some 4,000 years before the start of agriculture in the region.