Celebrating Wheat's 8,000-Year-Old History in Turkey
Jennifer Hattam
The history of wheat goes back a long way in Anatolia -- 8,000 years or so. In fact, the area that is now Turkey is believed to have been where the grain was first domesticated and developed as a crop. Some modern varieties date back to those long-ago ancestors.
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