How Did Humans Invent Bread?

The most boring food in your kitchen built the first cities, paid the pyramid builders, started revolutions… and gave us the words "lord" and "lady". The oldest bread ever found is 14,400 years old, and it was baked by hunter-gatherers, thousands of years BEFORE farming. We follow bread from Ice Age grinding stones to Egyptian bakeries, Roman bread riots, poisonous medieval rye, the march on Versailles, the invention of sliced bread, a sandwich smuggled into space, and the industry that sells it back to us today. ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 The most important boring food 0:29 What this video is about 0:57 Before bread 1:53 Ice Age flour 2:38 The oldest bread on Earth 4:26 How the first bread was made 5:54 Bread made us farmers 8:14 Breads around the world 9:51 How bread learned to rise 10:43 Egypt: paid in bread 12:15 Sacred bread 12:51 Rome: bread and circuses 14:12 White bread vs dark bread 14:44 Lord, lady and companion 16:11 Bread revolutions 17:07 The invention of sliced bread 18:00 Vitamins, space and sandwiches 18:59 Industrial bread 20:15 Who profits from your bread 22:16 Bread is life Sources: Arranz-Otaegui et al. (2018), PNAS, Shubayqa 1 flatbread; Piperno et al. (2004), Nature, Ohalo II; Revedin et al. (2010), PNAS, Upper Palaeolithic flour; Harlan (1967), wild wheat harvest experiment; Assize of Bread and Ale (1266). #bread #history #howdidhumans