Daily life in ancient Egypt 01

Daily life in ancient Egypt

Life in the dwellings of simple and noble people

Egypt was an agricultural country, most of its inhabitants were farmers. They built their homes using raw bricks, or reeds, and mud. The houses consisted of one room, oval or square in shape, with one door, and without windows. The walls were decorated with reed rugs, and hanging baskets and pottery vessels were used for storage. As for the furniture, it was scarce

The cottages were spacious, airy, and well-dressed with lattice windows, spacious courtyards, and white walls. As for the floors, they were most often covered with terracotta tiles

There was no litter problem in ancient Egypt: the remains of food were thrown to domestic animals, and pieces of broken pottery were used to write on them

On the other hand, numerous inscriptions show the details of the nobility's life. We find multiple views of the nobles sitting with their families in the shade of the trees, enjoying the gentle breeze, or during fishing trips on the Nile. Many inscriptions also indicate that the nobles and nobles managed their property with pride and enthusiasm: we see a scene representing the nobleman sitting on a chair carried on the shoulders as he passed on an inspection tour of vineyards or grain stores in his lands, which also contained fisheries, leather and papyrus factories, furniture and textiles. The men who carried the noble in the chair while he wandered through his lands sang, saying that the chair was light and as if it were empty if their master sat on it

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The homes of the wealthy had advanced water drainage systems - just as the ruins of some of the houses that were uncovered in Giza show us. The water was discharged into pits covered with metal disks, and discharged through pipes made of copper. A bathroom that was uncovered in a tomb dating back to the second family in the Saqqara region - dating back to about 3000 years BC - is the first in history

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Lives of hunters, peasants and bakers

The tombs of the nobles also contained many scenes of the features of the lives of people less wealthy and prestigious, such as the sight of fishermen drying fish in the sun or fixing fishing nets and traps, the scene of peasants feeding geese or scattering grain on the ground, and the scene of workers squeezing wine into the grape vine. There is also a scene of a naked, bare-footed peasant holding a sandal in his hand, placing a heavy sack over his shoulder on his way to the market. And another view of a baker and his wife, kneading flour

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