5k-Year-Old Tavern with Food Still Inside Discovered in Iraq

Re:5k-Year-Old Tavern with Food Still Inside Discovered in Iraq by indy on Thursday March 02, 2023 @05:20AM (#34994092)

The article didn't imply that the food was still edible.

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Re:5k-Year-Old Tavern with Food Still Inside Discovered in Iraq by nunodonato on Thursday March 02, 2023 @07:54AM (#34995070)

I wasn't implying that either. But how can you recognize organic food after 5k years? In my compost bin it lasts only a few weeks :)

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Re:5k-Year-Old Tavern with Food Still Inside Discovered in Iraq by ceejayoz on Thursday March 02, 2023 @08:29AM (#34995388)

Composting is a process specifically intended to break down organics. A closed tavern in the desert isn't likely to have the same conditions, and I'd imagine the remnants of the fish are largely bones and scales of the sort you wouldn't put in home compost.

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Re:5k-Year-Old Tavern with Food Still Inside Discovered in Iraq by myth_drannon on Thursday March 02, 2023 @09:06AM (#34995766)

You can't compost food in the desert, it's to dry.

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