Turkey I experts Archaeology 6 and a half thousand years before Christ, man-made khamwali from old relics bread claimed to have discovered a piece of bread that may be the oldest bread of its kind ever discovered.
The piece of bread was discovered at the Stone Age site of Katalhoyuk in Turkey’s central Anatolia region, one of the largest and best-preserved archaeological sites of an early prehistoric society dating back to about 8,600 years ago.
Researchers believe that early human settlement in the Turkish province of Konya flourished between 6,700 and 6,500 BC and declined around 5,950 BC.
Artifacts and structures found at the site over the years indicate that the Catalhoyos were early agriculturalists who cultivated wheat and barley as well as herded sheep and goats.
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A UNESCO World Heritage Site, this archaeological site was one of the world’s first urban sites, housing more than 8,000 people at its peak between about 10,000 BC and 2,000 BC.
In a new excavation at the site, researchers discovered the remains of a building where they apparently found an ancient oven, where wheat, barley and pea seeds were also found.
Archaeologists also found a sponge-like organic residue near the oven, the center of which was pressed with a fingerprint. Researchers termed it as fermented bread baked here.
Microscopic imaging confirmed that the bread dough did indeed contain starch particles with bubbles due to yeast.
Biologist Salih Kavak of Gaziantep University in Turkey said in a statement that this is an interesting discovery for Turkey and the world.
Prior to this discovery, the earliest known piece of leavened bread dates back to ancient Egypt around 1,500 BC.
“The fact that the building was covered with a thin layer of soil allowed both wood and bread to be preserved,” said archaeologist Ali Amut Turkan of Nekmetin Erbakan University.
Yasin Ramzan Aker, another archaeologist at the university, added: ‘We found that this piece of bread was porous, spongy and had not been baked.’
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2024-08-28 08:36:05
