Members of Akkadian Empire make perhaps first-ever written record of composting food waste for agriculture
Though the Akkadians may have been the first to record the use of compost, the practice likely began long before the advent of writing.
24th Century B.C.E.
Sargon the Great forms the world’s first empire in Mesopotamia, the Akkadian Empire
The Akkadian Empire eventually also stretched across modern day Turkey, Iran, and Lebanon.