Discover 4,000-Year-Old Recipes in the Oldest-Known Cookbook From Ancient Babylonia
Mesopotamia has long been considered as the “cradle of civilization,” housing some of the world’s earliest complex societies, such as the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Persians, and Babylonians. Though we’ve since developed a sophisticated understanding of these ancient civilizations, their food menus remain quite obscure, beyond “old world” staples like barley, wheat, sheep, goat, cow, and pig.