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Charred cereal grains from Amara West

Photograph by Aurelie Baudry-Palmer-1300/-1070

British Museum

British Museum
London, United Kingdom

Hulled barley and emmer wheat were used for making bread and beer in New Kingdom Egypt and Sudan. These charred grains were recovered from an oven within a house in the New Kingdom town of Amara West. Hulled barley grains on the left, and emmer wheat grain on the right.

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  • Title: Charred cereal grains from Amara West
  • Creator: Photograph by Aurelie Baudry-Palmer
  • Date Created: -1300/-1070
  • Place: Africa, Upper Nubia (Sudan), Amara West
  • Copyright: © The Trustees of the British Museum, shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
  • British Museum website: Amara West research project
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