Mysterious white, powdery substance found inside 3,000-year-old ruins in Armenia isn’t what it seems

Piles of a mysterious white, powdery substance discovered contained in the ruins of a 3,000-year-old constructing in Armenia are a culinary historian’s dream — the remnants of historic flour.

A Polish-Armenian crew of archaeologists made the invention whereas working at an archaeological web site within the city of Metsamor, in western Armenia, final fall. Upon figuring out the flour and excavating a number of furnaces, the crew realized that the traditional construction as soon as served as a big bakery. The dustings of the traditional flour have been sprinkled all through the dirt-cloaked ruins, together with on a number of furnaces, in accordance with Science in Poland, a Polish information web site collectively run by unbiased media and the federal government.