World's oldest bread found at prehistoric site in Jordan

Charred remains of a flatbread baked about 14,500 years ago in a stone fireplace at a site in northeastern Jordan have given researchers a delectable surprise.

The 14,000-year-old fireplace where bread was being made thousands of years before agriculture. Source: Alexis Pantos

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Published 18 July 2018 5:33pm

Updated 20 July 2018 11:54am

By Argyro Vourdoumpa

Source: SBS News

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No matter how you slice it, the discovery detailed on Monday shows that hunter-gatherers in the Eastern Mediterranean achieved the cultural milestone of bread-making far earlier than previously known, more than 4,000 years before plant cultivation took root.

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