A crumb of bread entombed thousands of years ago alongside an ancient Egyptian mummy has been discovered among a collection of previously uncatalogued items. The microscopic morsel was unearthed ...

Ancient Egyptian person: The grain is held in big stores to keep it preserved. We exchange it for other goods like cloth or bread. So the stores are a bit like banks, where we can keep our grain ...

Just as in ancient times, they're still used to make bread. And I've come to the house of this Egyptian lady to see how it's done.' DR JOANN FLETCHER:Now bread was the key ingredient in the ...

VICE reports that Seamus Blackley, more famous as the man behind Xbox, had the chance of a lifetime to bake some bread using 4,500-year-old yeast that was collected from ancient Egyptian relics.

Bread has been a staple in human diets for millennia, having evolved from simple flatbreads to the loaves we see today. It ...

Running for three months in Hall 43 on the upper floor, the exhibit is accessible at no additional cost beyond the regular ...

Before commercial yeast became available, the primary method for making tall and airy loaves was to bake sourdough. The ...

Bread? According to the Bible, the 10th plague to befall Ancient Egypt killed the first born child of every family. Now, new scientific evidence suggests that this may have actually occurred - and ...

Volunteer Stephen Crabtree looks at the microscope slide of ancient Egyptian bread. Photo from Leeds City Council One of the slides Crabtree found turned out to be a sample of ancient Egyptian ...