Astonishing: traces of the first porridge in a 10,000-year-old pottery

Cooking food in pottery has been a revolution for humanity. It seems to have occurred at the hinge of the Mesolithic and Neolithic, according to archaeological finds in Libya. About 6,000 to 10,000 years ago, the Sahara did not look like the desert we know today. It was even half-extended and flanked by a savannah. We know this because of […]