List of ancient dishes
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This is a list of ancient dishes, prepared foods and beverages that have been recorded as originating during ancient history. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with Sumerian cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing from the protoliterate period around 3,000 to 2,900 years BCE.[lower-alpha 1][1]
Ancient history can be defined as occurring from the beginning of recorded human history to:
- The Early Middle Ages (the end of the 4th century CE)
- The fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE[2][3]
- The Postclassical Era (200–600 CE and 1200–1500 CE, depending on the continent)[4][5][6][7]
Although the end date of ancient history is disputed, some Western scholars use the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE (the most used),[8][9] the closure of the Platonic Academy in 529 CE,[10] the death of the emperor Justinian I in 565 CE,[11] the spread of Islam in 610 CE[12] or the rise of Charlemagne[13] as the end of ancient and Classical European history. This list does not contain entries that originated after ancient history.
Archeologists and food historians have recreated some dishes using ancient recipes.[14]