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Using 3,500-year-old tablets, bread from the Hittite, Sumerian and Roman periods was baked

Using 3,500-year-old tablets, bread from the Hittite, Sumerian and Roman periods was baked

Bread is an indispensable food source in every period of history. In Anatolia, home to the transition to settled life, bread is considered both a foodstuff and a sacred food offered to the gods. The Hittites are a Bronze Age civilization that stands out with its bread making and diversity. Hundreds of tablets unearthed in

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Archaeologists discover 8,600-year-old world’s oldest bread at Çatalhöyük

Excavations at Çatalhöyük, one of the first urbanization sites of the Neolithic period, unearthed 8,600-year-old “bread”. Archaeologists say the bread may be the oldest known bread in the world. Çatalhöyük is located in the Çumra district of Konya province in central Turkey. In Çatalhöyük, people lived in adjoining mud-brick houses with roof entrances and established