“Analyses showed that the bread was made with coarsely ground emmer flour, an ancient variety of wheat, and lentil seeds, with the leaf of an as yet undetermined plant used as yeast.”

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-ancient-bread-turkey-recreates-year.html

Ancient bread rises again as Turkey recreates 5,000-year-old loaf

In the early Bronze Age, a piece of bread was buried beneath the threshold of a newly built house in what is today central Turkey.

Phys.org
@vmbrasseur I love stories like this! Would buy a book about ancient baking techniques