Historians from Yale and Harvard have figured out how our ancestors feasted four thousand years ago.

Scientists have finally deciphered cuneiform on clay tablets found in ancient Mesopotamia and kept in the Babylonian collection of Yale University for about half a century. It turned out that they recorded recipes for dishes - the oldest known to science.

Three tablets are dated 1730 BC. e., the fourth was created about a millennium later. All tablets are from Mesopotamia, which included Babylon and Assyria. Now it is the territory of Iraq, Syria and Turkey.

There are 25 well-preserved recipes, including instructions for making stews and broths, as well as vegetarian "beer bread". Ten more recipes could not be fully restored. According to the researchers, the notes are laconic: four lines for each recipe.

This is how one of the recipes sounds: “Meat is used. Prepare water. Add fine salt, dry barley cakes, onions, Persian shallots and milk. Chop and add the leek and garlic. "