Craving something sweet? Try this 4000-year-old Mesopotamian dessert

I mean, it does look pretty good. Image via Tasting History with Max Miller

There's old-fashioned cooking and then there's this. Mersu is the oldest known dessert in human history, being discovered on – of all things – a shopping receipt from ancient Mesopotamia. Tasting History with Max Miller, a show dedicated to resurrecting recipes from ages long pas…