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Where did watermelon originate? Genetics answers age-old mystery


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May. 25, 2021
Where did the watermelon come from? Inquiring minds want to know, and now maybe they do.
We did know that millet was domesticated in ancient China, and barley, oats and wheat in Mesopotamia or thereabouts. The goat and sheep were also brought into our fold in the Middle and Near East, too. But the watermelon?
When or where we started to farm watermelon is entirely unclear. But archaeologists suspect certain images in Nile Valley tombs dating to about 4,360 years ago were exactly this fruit – or rather, its predecessor. It was eaten as a dessert, the team writes. The ancient pictures of the putative watermelon are a key pointer. ....

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