The origins of the carrot are a little obscure as there is no documented archaeological findings of any root remains, making it difficult to know the precise moment of domesticity difficult to pin point. The carrot we are familiar with today, or "domestic carrot" started out being either purple or yellow, from Afghanistan, about 5000 years ago. Mutants and natural hybrids developed, merged with the wild varieties and produced the orange carrot of modern times.Thousands of years ago carrots were used for medicinal reasons and were small, tough, bitter and spindly and gradually evolved into the fleshy, sweet root it is today.
There is still a variety of wild carrot co-existing in the modern world with the domestic carrot, which is indigenous to Europe and some areas of Asia. There is some archaeological evidence to support that seeds found date back to the Mesolithic times, dating some 10,000 years ago.
