Mesopotamia

 Mesopotamia:Foods

In Acient Babylonia, soups and stews reigned supreme food historians are now using taste-tests to recover their forgotten favour's. 

No one knows exactly where they came from: for a long time no - one really understand what they said. The little slabs of clay covered with dense, wedge - shaped cunerform writing were thought by Yale University Scholars to involve medicines. 

I ancient Mesopotamia, people rarely wrote about preparing food, said Agnete Lassen, the assistant curator of the collection. "Out of hundreds of thousands of cunerform documents, they are the only food, recipes that exists. 

The four tables - the larger ones the sizes of a large bar of soap, the smallest, more than a thousand years younger, a mere round handful of clay-are inscribed with the ingredients not of pharmaceuticals but of dishes. Dated to at least 1730BC, the three larger tablets mostly contain descriptions of stews, the smallest, from a later period, speak of a both.