Archaeologists found 8,600-year-old bread in Çatalhöyük. It may be the oldest thing ever found, according to reports Arkeonews.
Çatalhöyük, located in Turkey, is one of the first proto-cities founded by human beings. Approximately eight thousand people lived in the densely built settlement. Çatalhöyük was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2012.
Arkeonews reported that a spongy object, which turned out to be wheat, barley, pea seeds and leavened bread, was found near one of the bakeries in Çatalhöyük. Scientists from Anadolu University, B.C. It turned out that it was fired around 6600 BC.
According to the study’s authors, the earliest known evidence of leavened bread comes from Egypt. The fact that Çatalhöyük existed long before Ancient Egypt makes the bread found here the oldest known bread.
“There is a hollow fingerprint in the middle of the bread, it was not cooked, it was just fermented and has survived to this day with the starch in it. “There is no such example,” the authors stated.
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