Truffles history is rooted in the past, so remote and difficult to fantasy becomes reality. But it seems certain that even three thousand years BC, the Babylonians were attracted to this gift "mysterious" nature. Truffles are among the most precious mushrooms on earth the kingdom fungi.
Some historians were the first mention of truffles as food (aphrodisiac) in the days of Jacob, about one thousand six hundred years before Christ.
In antiquity, the particularity of this underground mushroom classified as belonging to the class of Ascomycota Tuber, like living in the ground, apparently without roots made him even more desirable and multiply in legends about its origins and divine quality.