An employee of Halk Ekmek, a municipal bakery aiming to provide low-cost bread, handling cooked Kulluoba bread, a reproduction of a 5,000-year-old bread unearthed in an archaeological excavation in Eskisehir province, central Turkiye. — AFP
IN the early Bronze Age, a piece of bread was buried beneath the threshold of a newly built house in what is today central Turkiye.
Now, over 5,000 years later, archaeologists have unearthed it, and helped a local bakery to recreate the recipe – with customers lining up to buy it.
