conical bread

An item at Louvre

An oblong object pierced with a few wormholes; it is an amalgam of plant products containing seeds or debris of fruit grains. B. Bruyère (1937) reports the discovery of loaves of crushed and kneaded sweet figs.

Department of Egyptian Antiquities

An exhibit at Louvre

The collections of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities present the civilization that evolved on the banks of the Nile, from the end of Prehistory (around 4,000 BCE) to the Christian era (from the 4th century CE).

Louvre