Long before modern cookbooks, there were the Yale Culinary Tablets — ancient Babylonian clay tablets that preserve some of the world’s oldest known written recipes. Housed at Yale University as part of the Yale Babylonian Collection, these cuneiform tablets open a window into the ancient kitchen. While little is known about their origin, it is presumed that they were likely excavated from Southern Mesopotamia or modern day Iraq. Written in Akkadian text, they were first belie