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World's Oldest Bread Found at Prehistoric Site in Jordan

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 17 2018, @03:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the knead-to-know-information dept.

canopic jug writes:

The discovery of flatbread remains from around 14,500 years ago in northeastern Jordan indicate that people began making bread, a vital staple food, millennia before they were thought to have developed agriculture. The charred bread residue was found in a stone fireplace at an archeological site there.

Reuters : World's oldest bread found at prehistoric site in Jordan
Haaretz : Archaeologists Find 14,400-year-old Pita in Jordan's Black Desert

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday July 17 2018, @03:19PM (6 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 17 2018, @03:19PM (#708359) Journal

    It is probably fresher than the bread delivered to your grocery!

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @03:21PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @03:21PM (#708360)
    lol haaretz
    more juice owned media and now soydot is fallen

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @03:28PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @03:28PM (#708365)

      Prejudiced, much?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @03:29PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @03:29PM (#708366)

      >> Back to /pol/ >>

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:53PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:53PM (#708411)

    But but it's Organic Non-GMO All-Natural Handmade-in-small-batches Certified-Good !
    Who cares if something tastes like thousand-year-old fossilized charred cardboard, when it's So Good For You !

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @06:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @06:02PM (#708439)

    It is probably fresher than the bread delivered to your grocery!

    You jest, but my ex would serve any bread no matter how stale. :-/

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @07:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @07:46PM (#708484)

    It is probably fresher than the bread delivered to your grocery!

    Actually, I'm pretty sure that I have the world's oldest bread somewhere in the back of my pantry.