The context for this image is a section of wall at Edfu in which there are a number of offering tables with bread. These breads are mostly unlike what one generally finds in Egyptian iconography. Here is an example of one such carving below the image depicted, above. While most research into Egyptian breads seems…

This page begins to bring together the foundational texts and the study of ancient breads. Lara Carretero is a leading archeobotanist. One of her specialties is scanning electron microscopy. She is most well known for her analysis of the Epipaleolithic carbonized starches excavated from the Natufian Shubayqa 1 site in Jordan from which the so…