How to make 2,000-year-old-bread

In AD 79, a baker put his loaf of bread into the oven. Nearly 2,000 years later it was found during excavations in Herculaneum. The British Museum asked Giorgio Locatelli to recreate the recipe as part of his culinary investigations for the cinema production ’Pompeii Live from the British Museum’. In response to the many interesting, thoughtful and sometimes amusing comments we’ve received for this video, we’ve asked Paul Roberts, the curator of our Pompeii exhibition ’Life and Death in Herculaneum’, to gi