Ancient Civilizations
The Neolithic Revolution (crop cultivation & animal domestication began)
Ancient Mesopotamia: History of a Civilization (6000 BCE - 550 BCE)
The Phoenicians (1550 BCE - 300 BCE)
Record Keeping & the Origins of Writing in Mesopotamia
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
General Information
Yale University's Cuneiform Tablets
Babylonian Lexical Lists of Food & Drinks
Unknown Ingredients in Tablets
Foodstuff found in Ur Excavations
YBC 4644 Broth Recipes (25 recipes, 21 are meat stews & 4 are vegetable stews)
Meat Broth (YBC 4644 #1)
Meat Assyrian Style (YBC 4644 #2)
Kid Stew (YBC 4644 #7)
Tuh'u Beet Broth (lamb in beet broth) (YBC 4644 #22)
Braised Turnips (YBC 4644 #25)
Halazzu in Broth (Meat with Carob - ?) (YBC 4644 #19)
YBC 4648 Recipes (3 partial recipes)
Recipes
Hymn to Ninkasi (contains recipe for beer, 19th century BC)
Mersu (pastry?) - from Mari, Syria, 1800-1750 BCE
Liquid in which to cook meat ("Court Bouillon,"5th or 4th centuries B.C.E)
Sasqu (Porridge with Dates) (Cathy Kaufman)
Dried Fruit Compote (Cathy Kaufman)
Palace Cake (Cathy Kaufman)
YBC 8958 Bird Recipes (7 recipes for birds)
Note: YBC stands for Yale Babylonian Collection (1700 BCE)
Small Birds in Dough (YBC 8958 #1)
To prepare wild pigeons (amursânu) in broth (YBC 8958 #2)
Sasku Flour Bread (from YBC 8958 #1)
