WORLD’S OLDEST CAKE
BAKED 4,000 YEARS AGO (Special—By Air Mail) LONDON. June 3 Four thousand years ago a cook in Italy baked a cake. A piece of it has j just been found, partly carbonised in I the Belverde caves, near Perugia. Italy, : along with perfectly preserved speci- ; mens of wheat, barley, peas and ■ millet. Recent excavations have yielded ; other important finds, including the • skull of a Neanderthal man. dis- I covered in a cave at the foot of Mount ■ Circeo. on the coast between Rome : and Naples. Palaeontologists estimate . it to be between 80.090 and 130.000 ; years old. The cave was found at the end of a . long passage 65 feet underground. | hermetically Sealed by tons of earth which had slid down in front of the , entrance.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21378, 22 June 1939, Page 6
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