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I want to elaborate a little and give the archaeological context for the 'baking bread with no oven' tweet by @SeamusBlackley and to highlight how incredible his backyard experiments are
#OldKingdom bakeries were excavated by @AERA_EGYPT at #Giza in the 1990's. Notice the large bell-shaped bread mould (bedja pot). Bread was mass produced to feed the pyramid builders and was a dietary staple (along with beer and onions)
Hundreds these bell-shaped bread moulds were found in the bakery- which produce a loaf of bread that would have been more than a foot long! The pots were poorly made, coarse material with dung temper and broke regularly
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