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MODEL BAKERY AND BREWERY

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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.

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Once the fermentation process

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