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full screen The remains of what is described as the world’s oldest bread have been found in Turkey. The bread in the picture is, however, a newer variant. Archive image. Photo: Daniel Niemann/AP/TT
The remains of an 8,600-year-old bread have been found in Turkey. The find was made at Catalhöyük, which is considered one of the earliest urban civilizations, and archaeologists believe they have found the world’s oldest known bread, writes CNN.
Wheat, barley, pea seeds and remains of something round and spongy were found around a largely destroyed oven, according to a press release from Necmettin Erbakan University. Analyzes indicate that it is an 8,600-year-old leavened but unbaked bread.
– We can say that this find is the oldest bread in the world, says archaeologist Ali Umut Türkcan to the state-run Turkish news agency Anatolia.
– It is a smaller version of a loaf. It has a finger pressed into the middle, it has not been baked, but it has fermented and survived to this day with the starch still inside. Nothing similar has been found before.