Cooking is arguably both an art and a science — and if you're a physicist with some 4,500-year-old yeast in your cupboard, then it's a history lesson, too. Seamus Blackley, a scientist and video game designer, recently baked loaf of bread using some ancient yeast found in Egyptian pottery, and his culinary journey has gone viral.
Blackley worked with Egyptologist Dr. Serena Love and microbiologist Richard Bowman to obtain dormant yeast samples from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard.
The yeast was cultivated from the pores of ancient ceramic pots that were once used for beer and bread making, Blackley explained on Twitter. Over a year, Blackley and his colleagues collected samples from these pots and studied the microorganisms within them.
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