The chemistry of fermentation may explain how bread rises, but its persistence across cultures explains why it never falls from favor. Bread is one of those foods that seems eternal. For more than ...

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 ...

Ancient Bread Rises Again As Turkey Recreates 5,000-year-old Loaf By Burcin GERCEK May 27, 2025, 1:31 am EDT Share ...

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, ...