Archaeology & Food

29/10/2023

CAIRO, EGYPT—Live Science reports that a 52-foot-long papyrus containing sections of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead has been found in a coffin at a Saqqara tomb by Egyptian archaeologists from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The tomb, dated to between 712 and 332 B.C., is situated...

29/10/2023

This sounds ominous but it cant be worse than what's already happening globally!

CAIRO, EGYPT—Live Science reports that a 52-foot-long papyrus containing sections of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead has been found in a coffin at a Saqqara tomb by Egyptian archaeologists from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The tomb, dated to between 712 and 332 B.C., is situated...

01/07/2022

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/06/03/climate-change-reveals-ancient-city-iraq-zakhiku

Worsening drought conditions have extended the period when the 3,400-year-old city of Zakhiku is above water, aiding archaeologists’ efforts to study and preserve the site

26/04/2020

Rhythm in Kneading :o

Kent and Tuesday Series: in the Ancient World.

Many of us are starting to bread and cakes for the first time during the . Ancient Greek women have something to teach us about . There are many individual and collective terracotta figurines of female from Classical . This group of women are kneading the bread while a flute player sets their pace.

From , 525-475 BC. Louvre Museum inv. CA804

Photo: Marie-Lan Nguyen/Wikimedia Commons

01/09/2019

Cheese and yoghurt 8600 yrs ago..!!! :)

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/08/earliest-evidence-of-dairy-production.html?fbclid=IwAR1EUbTTNnwL-aoFDk8jYSxJWF2LIt5BExVXlMtPiFHlZPQpc_sfAy9Dozk .97

23/10/2018

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/07/15/the-ancient-roots-of-greek-souvlaki-the-first-fast-food/

Archaeological findings and writings show that today's souvlaki comes from the ancient Greeks, being the first fast food in the Hellenic world.

26/08/2018

The island of Crete has 4 major cities and the one I live in, Heraklion, is its capital. So, like all capitals, it has a rather ugly, clinical part of it with modern buildings and the older, neglec…

24/03/2018

the magic of the coffee shops in Crete, Greece

13/03/2018

ahem... the reality? :p

07/03/2018

Homo correctus.... even back then :D

13/02/2018

Conservation vs development in the tourism sector

Although the Uppatasanti Pagoda is an impressive building – especially when photographed in evening against a darkening blue sky – the splendor is a façade.