The 30,000-Year-Old Miracle Seeds We Should All Be Eating

Sam Nash
5 min readNov 11, 2020

As one of the oldest crops for food and fibres in the world, flax or linseed has been a part of our lives since civilisation began. In fact, the earliest evidence of humans using wild flax was found in the present-day region of the Republic of Georgia, where dyed, spun, and knotted flax fibres were discovered in the Dzudzuana Cave, dating back 30,000 years.

Blue flax flowers — Source — Pixabay

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Sam Nash

Sam writes scifi thrillers & also historical fiction as Sam Taw. She's also the editor of the Historical Times interactive magazine. www.historicaltimes.org