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WHEN the Archaeological Survey of India discovered the layout of a series of houses at Afyeh, Egyptian Nubia, in 1962, some charred cereals were recovered outside one house. At first wheat, barley, lentil, grain, peas and so on were reported. We examined the material later and confirmed the presence of wheat and barley, but did not find lentil, grain or peas, although there were some leguminous seeds that have not been identified so far. Four whole cotton seeds were also identified (Fig. 1) with some fragments.
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CHOWDHURY, K., BUTH, G. 4,500 Year Old Seeds suggest that True Cotton is Indigenous to Nubia. Nature 227, 85–86 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227085a0
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