From ancient wine to 14,400-year-old flatbread, these long-lost leftovers dish up lots of knowledge about the cultures who made them.
As archaeological artifacts go, food doesn’t get a lot of mainstream attention compared to, say, a hoard of old coins or an ornate sarcophagus. And yet, samples of ancient food and drink, even when only present as particles or residue, can offer researchers — and the rest of us — a delicious menu of insight and knowledge into the people who prepared them.
Granted, the food that archaeologists find is nothing you’d want to eat. Often, it isn’t even recognizable as a foodstuff. Yet these morsels of history can still shed surprising light on just how far back humans have made some form of the dishes and beverages we still enjoy today. Here, then, is a four-course meal of some of the oldest edibles ever found.For a long time, conventional wisdom held that bread must be something humans didn’t develop until early agriculture was well underway.
In lieu of an oven, the bread could have been baked on a hot stone or in the toasty ashes of a fire. It was then likely used to hold fresh-cooked meat, which could mean that the sandwich — or at least the wrap — was one of the original to-go meals for a prehistoric people still on the move.Even the most venerable aged cheddar can’t compare to what archaeologists have found in tombs and digs, especially in Egypt.
in clay containers at the necropolis in Saqqara; inscriptions on the containers date the cheese to as far back as 664 B.C. Any way you cut it, that’s some ancient cheese, but it’s by no means the oldest.jar of cheese was found at Saqqara in the tomb of Ptahmes, an Egyptian official. Made from sheep or goat milk, that sample dates to more than 3,000 years ago.
who made the find say that the fatty residue in the pots is the earliest known evidence of cheese making, dating back more than 7,000 years.Hot liquids, such as broth, soup or stew, have likely been on the menu for tens of thousands of years, possibly since humans or their nearest relatives could control fire. At least one researcher has theorized that even
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