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Ancient Egypt’s favorite foods were buried for the afterlife
Ancient Egyptian tomb scenes and funerary offerings reveal the foods people valued most, including bread, thick beer, grapes, figs, pomegranates, ducks, geese, eggs, fish, onions, and lentils. Some foods, like mandrakes and lotus flowers, also carried romantic or ritual meaning and may have been eaten, inhaled, or mixed into drinks. The evidence shows that food depictions in tombs were not simply decorative but were believed to magically provide the deceased with nourishment forever.
