Forget the wheel, the printing press, or the Internet – cake is quite possibly one of humanity’s greatest ever inventions. Case in point: it’s been around for thousands of years, so there must be something about it that we like. And by “thousands of years” we don’t just mean people have been making and eating cake for that long – there’s one cake that’s been preserved for all that time too. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The cake in question was made around 4,200 years ago, which, according to Guinness World Records , makes it the world’s oldest cake (that we know of). It consists of two 10-centimeter-wide (3.9-inch) wheat flatbreads that are thought to be filled with milk, honey, and sesame, which help to qualify it

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