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Even the scientific establishment has not been immune to the allure of chocolate. It was the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus who, while methodically cataloging the world's plants and animals, had a moment of poetic inspiration and named the cacao tree, the source of chocolate, Theobroma cacao, or 'food of the gods'. It is a description few chocoholics would argue with.

The Mayan Symbol for Chocolate

The cacao (or cocoa) tree originated in the wilds of the Amazon and Orinoco basins some four thousand years ago. It was cultivated by the early Maya, whose civilization began to take shape in the lowlands of Central America around 1500 BC - the word 'cacao' is Mayan, probably inherited from the earlier Olmec. In 1986, the hieroglyphic symbol for chocolate was finally deciphered after the discovery of a jar found at Rio Azul in northern Guatemala. Chemical analysis confirmed that the residue in the ancient vessel was indeed chocolate. A paper published in the journal Nature in 2002 reports further findings from the Mayan site at Colha in Belize which show that the Maya consumed chocolate as early as 600 BC.

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