Food Archive

Conny Waters—AncientPages.com—The term "pancake" may have emerged in the 15th century and became standard in 19th-century America, but the history of pancakes stretches much further back. Astonishingly, evidence from

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There have always been several ways to prepare meals. Food can be cooked in different pots depending on the meal. Ancient people realized

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers can now show that early humans of the Middle Paleolithic had a more varied diet than previously assumed. The

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Rats in the kitchen. Typically that implies issues with cleanliness and safety. But in medieval Japan, having rats in the kitchen could suggest

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Long before the invention of agriculture, humans already knew how to process cereals and other wild plants into a flour suitable for food—and

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers from a variety of Spanish institutions have managed to reconstruct the diet of some 50 individuals buried more than 3,000 years ago

AncientPages.com - We humans can't stop playing with our food. Just think of all the different ways of serving potatoes—entire books have been written about potato recipes alone.

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The remains of a huge carp fish (2 meters/6.5 feet long), analyzed by scientists, mark the earliest signs of cooking by prehistoric humans

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 5,000-year-old container, discovered behind a butcher's shop, is being exhibited at Kirkcaldy Galleries having been recently conserved by experts. Conservation has been

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  Scientists have investigated the importance of ancient Roman funerary meals focusing on what products were used to prepare the food offerings. "Ancient written

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, in co-operation with colleagues from Goethe University, Frankfurt, has uncovered the first insights

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Neanderthals, our closest relatives, became extinct between 40,000 to 35,000 years ago. Since the discovery of the first Neanderthal fossil 165 years ago,

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Pythagoras of Samos, an ancient Greek philosopher who made great contributions to mathematics and founded the Pythagorean School of Mathematics in Cortona, a

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Knights Templar, who decided to sacrifice their lives in the service of the Order, lived according to strict discipline and had to

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - You might have tasted a Garibaldi biscuit that consists of two soft rectangular slabs of biscuits sandwiching a bed of currants, but do