Mesopotamian Kitchen: Recipes from 1750 BCE

Discover some of humanity's oldest recorded recipes, translated from clay tablets in Yale's Babylonian Collection (YBC 4644). These dishes offer a rare glimpse into the kitchens of ancient Mesopotamia, where cooks were already writing down their culinary knowledge 4,000 years ago. From hearty lamb stews to nourishing vegetable pottages, these recipes demonstrate how the fundamental techniques of cooking have endured across millennia. Each recipe has been carefully adapted with modern measurements while staying true to the original ingredients and methods that ancient Babylonian cooks would have used.