Loaf of bread (13000 B.C.) Tell el far'ah (Israel)

In the Neolithic period, they made coarse bread because the flour was crudely milled given that this was done by grinding wheat between two rocks and furthermore the pieces they obtained were hard, crushed and dried up.

But the Greeks were the first to develop the art of baking, as they invented fermented bread, they made bread with different cereals and shapes, even artistic, they added flavour enhancers and they created ovens to bake. For the Greeks bread, besides being ritual food, had divine origins as it guaranteed sustenance to the people. For this reason, due to the scarce production of grain, they needed to ensure a supply from beyond their borders and they usually obtained it from the neighbouring regions of Asia Minor, Crete and Sicily.

Baking subsequently arrived at Egypt and bread became as essential a source of food for its people, as it was in Greece. Egyptians made bread with high quality flour which was oval, conical or round in shape and they often added butter, milk, eggs and honey.