8,600-year-old bread was found in Turkey

8,600-year-old bread was found in Turkey

Necmettin Erbakan University Science and Technology Research and Application Center

Archaeologists have found bread about 8,600 years old in a Neolithic settlement in Turkey.

He may be the oldest in the world, informs Arkeonews.

During excavations in the settlement of Çatal-Göyük in central Turkey, archaeologists discovered a destroyed oven. Around her were seeds of wheat, barley, peas, and several food-like finds.

Analyzes revealed that the small round spongy residue was fermented bread dating back to 6600 BC.

“The fact that the structure was covered with fine clay allowed all these organic remains, both wooden and bread, to survive to this day.” – said one of the excavation participants, Ali Umut Turkjan.

According to him, the oldest known evidence of sourdough bread comes from Egypt. However, a new discovery, which is about 8,600 years old, beats them.

“We can say that the find from Çatal-Göyük is the oldest bread in the world. It is a reduced version of a loaf of bread. It has a fingerprint in the center, it was not baked, but it was fermented and has survived to this day with starch inside. There is no such example yet was” – assured Turkdzhan.

Çatal-Göyük is one of the first proto-cities that belong to the ceramic Neolithic and Eneolithic eras. It housed houses made of clay bricks, covered with paintings and symbolic decorations. The number of inhabitants of the settlement reached 8 thousand.

We will remind, archaeologists are in Egypt found the upper part of the 7-meter statue of Pharaoh Ramses II.