Ancient Egyptians grew wheat and barley as staple food crops.
Notes on verification
Multiple authoritative sources including Britannica, World History Encyclopedia, and University of Oxford scholars independently confirm wheat and barley as staple crops. Sources consistently specify emmer wheat for bread and barley for beer, with six-rowed barley explicitly mentioned. The breadth and quality of corroborating sources (7 independent sources including academic institutions) provides very strong verification.
Sources
- Ancient Egyptian agriculture (wikipedia)