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Bread and beer were the staple foodstuffs of Ancient Egypt. Although abundantly represented in artwork and texts, actual archaeological evidence for the techniques of production and consumption of bread are comparatively rare. Recent excavations at Abydos in Upper Egypt have documented a temple bakery where we can examine institutional-scale baking and how it relates to daily life in an ancient community of Egypt's late Middle Kingdom (1850-1700 BCE).

“A Thousand of Bread” – Excavations in a Temple Bakery of Egypt’s Middle Kingdom and the Role of Bread Making in Ancient Egypt | Middle Eastern Bite Sized Talks (upenn.edu)