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Flatbread

14,400 yrs

Oldest known bread

Estimated Oldest foods · Verified 2026-10-31 · WWV-FD-008

Charred bread remains at Shubayqa 1 in Jordan date to about 14,400 years ago. That is some 4,000 years before farming began.

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