Archaeologist/ Egyptologist, recovering academic, beer enthusiast and gastroegyptologist, heritage consultant in Queensland. #scicomm She/her
Mar 30, 2020 • 14 tweets • 8 min read
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)
