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    • 'World's oldest bread,' dating back 8,600 years, discovered in Turkey

    The 8,600-year-old bread was found at the Neolithic archeological site of 脟atalh枚y眉k, a UNESCO World Heritage site, at Cumra district in Konya, Turkey. (Serhat Cetinkaya / Anadolu / Getty Images via CNN Newsource) The 8,600-year-old bread was found at the Neolithic archeological site of 脟atalh枚y眉k, a UNESCO World Heritage site, at Cumra district in Konya, Turkey. (Serhat Cetinkaya / Anadolu / Getty Images via CNN Newsource)
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    Archeologists in Turkey say they have discovered the world鈥檚 oldest known bread, dating back to 6600 BC.

    A largely destroyed oven structure was found in an area called 鈥淢ekan 66,鈥 where there are adjoining mudbrick houses, at the archeological site of 脟atalh枚y眉k in the southern Turkish province of Konya, according to Turkey鈥檚 Necmettin Erbakan University Science and Technology Research and Application Center (B陌TAM).

    Around the oven, archeologists found wheat, barley, pea seeds and a palm-sized, round, 鈥渟pongy鈥 residue, it said in a press release Wednesday.

    Analyses determined that the organic residue was 8,600-year-old, uncooked, fermented bread.

    鈥淲e can say that this find at 脟atalh枚y眉k is the oldest bread in the world,鈥 archeologist Ali Umut T眉rkcan, head of the Excavation Delegation and an associate professor at Anadolu University in Turkey, told Turkish state news outlet Anadolu Agency Wednesday.

    鈥淚t is a smaller version of a loaf of bread. It has a finger pressed in the center, it has not been baked, but it has been fermented and has survived to the present day with the starches inside. There is no similar example of something like this to date,鈥 he added.

    Scanning electron microscope images showed air spaces in the sample, with the sighting of starch grains 鈥渆liminating our suspicions,鈥 biologist Salih Kavak, a lecturer at Gaziantep University in Turkey, said in the release.

    He added that analyses uncovered chemicals found in plants and indicators of fermentation. Flour and water had been mixed in, with the bread having been prepared next to the oven and kept for a while.

    鈥淚t is an exciting discovery for Turkey and the world,鈥 Kavak said.

    The organic matter 鈥 both wood and bread 鈥 was preserved by thin clay that covered the structure, according to T眉rkcan.

    脟atalh枚y眉k, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site, was home to approximately 8,000 people during the Neolithic period, between around 10,000 BC to 2,000 BC, and is one of the world鈥檚 first places of urbanization, according to BITAM.

    Research at the well-preserved site has revealed distinctive housing layouts and extensive features such as wall paintings and reliefs 鈥 causing it to be considered 鈥渢he most significant human settlement documenting early settled agricultural life of a Neolithic community,鈥 according to the .

    鈥溍嘺talh枚y眉k was already the center of many firsts. The world鈥檚 first weavings were already in 脟atalh枚y眉k when it was excavated. Wooden artifacts were also in 脟atalh枚y眉k. Wall paints and paintings were added to this. Konya and Turkey are very lucky in this sense,鈥 T眉rkcan said.

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