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MODEL BAKERY AND BREWERY

CLOSE CONNECTIONS

In ancient Egypt, the process of baking bread and brewing beer were closely linked because they used similar ingredients. Numerous surviving wooden funerary models feature both a bakery and a brewery just like this one – the brewery is located in the right chamber.

LAST STEP

Once the fermentation process

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