Carbonized 1,300-Year-Old Bread Loaves Unearthed in Turkey (ancientist.com)

Somebody tell Seamus Blackley. Maybe there is some salvageable yeast.

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Would this have been done using a pan with a reversed pattern or hand skills?

The entire website seems fake! The quoted archaeologist sounds like GPT.

Usually you can freshen up stale bread by putting it in the toaster.

It’s not just ordinary bread. It looks to be prosphora, or communion bread [1]. In Eastern Orthodox churches communion bread is leavened and it is prepared by hand often by laity [2].

I find it beautiful that such a small but sacred action still looks to be done the same way 1300 years later.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosphora 2: https://www.stdemetriosmi.org/parish-resources/prosphora-bak...

Is "carbonised" a euphemism for "overbaked" here?