Life was centered toward three pilars: Religion , Pharaoh and Family

The egyptians were polytheits. They believed in many gods.

People in Egypt thought that the Pharaohs were gods chosen to lead the people and maintain order.

The family was very important. Men and women married very young.

Marriages were generally polygamous in royal and noble families.

Priest were permited to have only one wife. 

LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT

Men were quite fond of their wives.

Men and women could work. In acient Egypt women were considered equal to men before law. This was very different from other contemporary neighbourg lands.

For example, women could own houses, employ workers, made business and could became Pharaohs.

Women were also responsible for the home duties like cooking and taking care of children.

Children were very important and were considered to be a gift from the gods.

LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT

Egyptians lived in houses made of bricks and wood.

Most of their houses had one or two rooms, but rich people had big and luxurios villas and the Pharaoh lived in great palaces.

Egyptians loved Parties, games and sports.

Rich people made large parties at their villas with a lot of food and drinks. Musicians, singers, dancers entretained the guests

All classes enjoyed games and sports.

Egyptians had several board games and children played with balls, and toys made from wood and pottery. Most popular sports were hunting and fishing.

People also liked wrestiling, fencing and energetic games

SOCIAL LIFE

In a great palace, the Pharaoh wakes with one of his wives beside him.

Servants enter the room, and help him and his wife prepare for the day. The servants are wearing simple kilts and dresses, because they can´t

wear the same clothes as the pharaoh.

They wash him in a side room and put oils and perfumes into his skin.  When the pharaoh and his wife are dressed, they sit on cushions in a

courtyard and eat a small meal of bread and fruit at a low table.

Then the Pharaoh goes to the throne room, the merchants visit him. 

After speaking with the official for a while, the Pharaoh dismisses him and he takes a lunch with his wives and children. They are served a meal of beef, vegetables, and fine wine. 

THE PHARAOH

In the afternoon, he relaxes with his sons, and plays a board game called Dogs and Jackals. At the end of the day he joins his wives and guests for an evening of eating and dancing.

In ancient Egypt, the pharaoh controlled all the land and resources. He decide to build monuments to honor the gods, and made decisions about government, law, and policy.

He had to make a lot of ritual every day. He never goes outside without something in his head and used special clothes.

Like all the Egyptians, the Pharaon was shaved. But he had to use a false beard, like gods.

He had clowns, friends, musicians and dancers that always was ready to keep him happy. He had a lot of wives but only one was the official queen.

THE PHARAOH

• Not everyone learned to read and write in ancient Egypt.

• Only one group of people called scribes was allowed to have this knowledge.

• To become a scribe, you had to attend a special school for scribes.

• At this school you would learn how to read and write hieroglyphic and hieratic scripts. These scripts are complicated, and there were many signs to learn.

• Students spent a lot of time practicing the signs by copying them onto sheets of papyrus.

• It could take four to five years for a person to go through scribe school.

• Scribes usually wrote on papyrus with reed brushes dipped in ink.

THE SCRIBES

• The role of the priest was very important in Egyptian Society.

• The Egyptians believed the gods lived in the temples.

• Only the priest was allowed to enter the sacred area of the temple and be near the statue representing the god .

• Their role was to care for the needs of the goddess.

• During the day, they go to the temples and lights a torch, says prayers, lights incenses, washes the statue and singers offer hymns of praise to the god.

• They were only allowed to wear linens or clothing made of plants.

• Articles of clothing that were made from animals were not permitted   

THE PRIESTS

• The Doctors studied medicine in a place called “House of Life”

• The Egypt state paid the doctors to cure free all the sick people.

• They had assistants who worked like nurses and massage therapists.

• The Doctors also take care of sick animals.

• There was a type of doctor for each specialty, because they had a lot of knowledge.

• As Egypt had large constructions, they knew how to treat any kind of fractures.

• Also they knew how to embalmed and mummified bodies. Thanks to this they knew very well the inside of human body.

THE DOCTORS

They were Prisoners of war or Criminals.

The slaves were treated cruelly.

They Worked on public monuments for the Pharaoh or were destined for domestic service.

They Worked in the house of noble work. Cleaning, washing and raicing children.

In the houses they were treated better..

THE SLAVES

The peasants were the majority of the people

They were free but they worked the land of the Pharaoh or nobles

They gave a portion of the produccion to pharaoh.

There was a time in which the land were flooded and could not be planting.

In that time moved animals and dedicated to buildings for the pharaoh

THE PEASANTS

In poorer families the mothers raised their children, slaves served the nobility. Peasant girls were married about 12 years or children a little older, the ordinary man

had only one wife. Was cooked in ovens mud or fire, beer was the most popular drink, the bread was a

staple food. Most people bathed daily in the river, ordinary people had short hair, wore his young

head with braids children had his head shaved leaving a tuft with a braid on the side. The poorest wore jewelry that were copper or slab Men used to wear short skirts and women wore dresses with straps, old wore longer

skirts and the children did not wear clothes. The homes were made of sun-dried mud called adobe because wood was scarce. In

poor households, people sat around a reed mat Esperanto the mother put something good to eat, like a fish or a vegetable dish in the center of the table. And we all took turns to take food by hand and a piece of bread as the ancient Egyptians did not use silverware. They boiled their drinking water before consuming Nile to prevent disease.

Candela Videla Valentina Cruciarelli Ferrantes

THE PEASANTS