Ancient Bread: Dissecting The 2,000-Year-Old Bread Buried In Pompeii


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This bread from the ancient Romans also used an ancient grain, the Triticum aestivum or bread wheat. Wheat became the main grain for baking in Rome.

Monaco also cited poppy seeds, fennel, and parsley as notable ingredients of panis quadratus.

Ancient Bread
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