The World's oldest piece of chewing gum is chewing gum made up of birch bark tar, with tooth imprints, which has been found in Kierikki in Finland by an archaeology student in 2007. according to scientists, this piece of chew-gum is 5700 years old. The tar from which the gums were made is believed to possess antiseptic properties and other medicinal benefits. it's chemically almost like petroleum, tar, and is in this way different from most other early gum.
The Mayans and Aztecs were the primary to take advantage of the positive properties of gum, they used chicle, a natural tree gum, as a base for creating a gum-like substance and to stay objects together in everyday use. sorts of chewing gum were also chewed in Ancient Greece. the traditional Greeks chewed mastic gum, made up of the resin of the mastic tree. Mastic gum, like birch bark tar, has antiseptic properties and is believed to possess been wont to maintain oral health. Both chicle and mastic are tree resins. Many other cultures have chewed gum-like substances made up of plants, grasses, and resins.
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