Egyptians practised fish farming more than 3,500 years ago, the earliest evidence of such activity worldwide according to a joint German-Israeli study released on Tuesday. Scientists studied 100 fish teeth found at archaeological sites across modern-day Israel to conclude they had been plucked from a lagoon in Egypt`s Sinai thousands of years ago. `The sample of teeth covered a chronological period extending over 10,000 years, from the early Neolithic period through to the early Islamic period,` said a statement from Israel`s Haifa University, one of the participants in the study. Of those samples, some were from about 3,500 years ago. Farmers at the time found a lagoon which fish were entering and barricaded it for a few months, Guy Bar-Oz, one of the authors of the report and archaeology professor at the University of Haifa. Afterwards `you can easily harvest them,` the academic
|
