Scientists recently uncovered an ancient bread recipe in Turkey, and a local bakery has successfully brought it back to life. The bread, dating back roughly 5,000 years, was discovered as a piece of ...

There’s something kind of magical about food that connects across thousands of years. Not the romanticized version of a feast ...

Panis quadratus was simple, made of water, flour, and salt, and carefully divided into eight sections with a reed and bound with rope. Bread baked according to an ancient Roman recipe was sold for the ...

Baked bread with a crusty exterior, flour scattered around it, on a black background. - Angelomik/Shutterstock Food and history have always been intertwined. When you're biting into even the simplest ...

Dried yeast has become something of a hot commodity in recent weeks, as stir-crazy amateur bakers have chosen to while away their days in quarantine with the time-consuming task of making homemade ...

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. Now, more than 5,000 years later, archaeologists have unearthed it, ...

The site of Çatalhöyük in Southern Turkey, where a furnace with unbaked, leavened bread dating to 6600 BCE was recently discovered (photo via Getty Images) Archaeologists excavating at the ancient ...