Could you help me reverse engineering a bread I had, because I have no idea how to search for this. I had some grey-brown colored bread (looked like dinner roll

Could you help me reverse engineering a bread I had, because I have no idea how to search for this. I had some grey-brown colored bread (looked like dinner rolls) in Greece that tasted so much more "real" than any American fancy bread I have had. It was firstly uniformly dry, like it sucked the moisture out of my mouth. Then it was very earthy, making my memories of american bread feel like they had sugar in it; this bread tasted like a fragrant earthy rock. Yet it was easy to eat, did not cut/scratch my mouth. What kind of recipe/process goes into making bread like that? I may be exaggerating a bit, but I do remember this was a very unique taste and feel.