| Unlike pottery, arrow heads and metal
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| | provided much sought after relief from
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| tools, traces of ancient ice creams are
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| | the heat.Even though ice cream itself
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| not really something that archaeologists
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| | leaves no visible mark in ancient
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| can unravel. The ice cream history is
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| | history, items and buildings used for its
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| therefore elusive and not very well
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| | creation can. Icehouses are for instance
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| known. People living in climates where
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| | known to have existed as early as 2,000
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| ice and snow formed naturally are
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| | years B.C. in Mesopotamia. Wealthy
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| believed to have enjoyed a form of sorbet
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| | Mesopotamians had them built along the
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| since prehistoric time by flavouring snow
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| | River Euphrates and used them to store
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| with fruit, berries and honey. This was
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| | food. We also know from historical
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| probably especially popular in warm
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| | sources that several Egyptian pharaohs
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| regions with high mountains, since snow
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| | ordered ice to be shipped to them in the
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| could be gathered from the high altitudes
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| | hot and sunny regions in which they
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| and brought down to regions where it
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| | lived.
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