Interesting discovery
It was earlier believed that staples like rice, wheat, barley, and legumes were the first domesticated crops. But Archaeobotanists at Harvard University and Bar-Ilan University have recently revealed a startling fact published in the Science Journal that fruit trees are the oldest known domesticated crops. According to their findings, the dawn of agriculture may have come with the domestication of fig trees in the Near East some 11,400 years ago!
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