The Ancient Egyptians Ate Celery Too
We are not likely to associate celery, that white and crisp vegetable so often on our dinner tables, with the ancient Egyptians. But it had a place in the affairs of man in those dim, buried times as well as to-day, according to tho Ferry-Morse Seed Breeding Institute. Egyptologists found a garland of it on the breast of a mummy of the Twentieth Dynasty discovered at Sheikh-abd-el-Kurneh, near Thebes. Leaves of the garland were positively identified witfl those of Apium Graveolens —celery to The Twentieth Dynasty came to a close about 1100 B. C., so that it is established that this vegetable which we eat so often was known and used by Egyptian rulers more than 30 centuries
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 65, 18 March 1938, Page 11
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