List of ancient dishes

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 the 30th century BC.
Ancient history can be defined as occurring from the beginning of recorded human history to:
Although the end date of ancient history is disputed, some Western scholars use the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD (the most used), the closure of the Platonic Academy in 529 AD, the death of the emperor Justinian I in 565 AD, the birth of Islam in 610 AD or the rise of Charlemagne 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.
Beginning of recorded history to 476 AD.
This section is limited to dishes that "originated" during the time of ancient history (the beginning of recorded human history) up to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD.
AD 477–1500.
This section includes dishes, foods and beverages that originated during the time of ancient history from 477 AD to 1500 AD (prior to the Postclassical Era).
See also.
Ancient cuisines
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