Daily life
THE SATIRS OF THE TRADES
Carpenters at work using a drill, Middle Kingdom, Beni Hassan In ancient Egypt most craft production was for the elite, or for state and temple institutions, which could afford the ne…
women
Marraige and divorce in ancient Egypt
Dwarf Seneb and his family, Saqqara Marriage would have been regarded as the natural state for both adult women and men, but we know little of how marriage partners were chosen. Most marriages …
women
Women in ancient Egyptian society
Raherka and Meresankh Giza, at Louvre ,. Women did not form a homogeneous group within the hierarchy of Egyptian society, because their status depended on that of their father and, after mar…
science
Ancient Egyptian Mathematics
Our knowledge of Egyptian mathematics derives from a small number of papyri that were compiled as practical textbooks for training scribes who were already at an advanced stage of educati…
women
Royal Women
Like the office of kingship in ancient Egypt, queenship, embodied by the king's mother and king's principal wife, was divine. The two queens wore the same insignia, used the same…
medicine
Ancient Egyptian medicine
Medicine was a branch of advanced scribal learning. Egyptian doctors were of the highest social status and had a reputation throughout the ancient world. A knowledge of medicine was identifi…
medicine
Examples of Medical Papyri in ancient Egypt
The Ebers Papyrus In 1873 Georg Ebers, a German Egyptologist, acquired in Thebes a papyrus which had been discovered in a tomb in about 1860. Originally it was a roll 20.72 metres long but divi…
shoes
Ancient shoes get new attention
These apparently basic stitched sandals, created from palm leaf, grass and papyrus, were the most essential items. They were only utilized by those officials who were honored by the king and court…
domestic monuments
Ancient Egyptian villages and homes
The majority of Egyptian towns and villages seem to have developed in a piecemeal, haphazard fashion around a central core of public buildings. Town planning did exist, but, as we shall see, it was…
Daily life
Time Keeping and Calenders in Ancient Egypt
This replica of an ancient Egyptian water clock is based on the original version carved from alabaster stone. There are ten columns of twelve indentations around the inside of the clock. As water …
houses
Houses for the Living
The ruins of the vast majority of Egyptian towns having disappeared, it is very difficult to form any idea of the exterior of an ancient Egyptian dwelling-house especially during the Old K…
hunting
HUNTING, FISHING, FOWLING AND FORAGING
seining fish, 5th Dynasty The hunting of animals for their meat was common in predynastic Egypt. Wild cattle ( Bos Primigenius) and hartebeest were hunted in the Nile valley, while…
farming
Farming in ancient Egypt
The first farmers Picking grapes, 18th Dynasty There is no evidence for food production on the Nile floodplain before the fifth millennium B.C. Traces of the earliest undisputed far…
