Evidence of some uniquely Egyptian foods from the ancient world still remains – a record of the diets and plans for the afterlife.
We might not know what was on the daily menu in a typical ancient Egyptian household, but there’s no shortage of evidence of favourite foods.
Dr Mennat-Allah El Dorry, an archaeologist and archaeobotanist who specialises in the history of food, says that the cuisine Egyptian rulers prepared for the afterlife are well documented, and a clue to what Egyptians ate in daily life.
