World's oldest bread found at prehistoric site in Jordan

Sunday, July 22, 2018 - 23:50 in Paleontology & Archaeology

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: people began making bread, a vital staple food, millennia before they developed agriculture.

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