ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CULTURE

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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CULTURE

• Ancient Egyptians lived long ago. Some people had
  unique haircuts, furniture, food, and were
  mummified. Heres how Egyptians lived in their
  culture.

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WHERE DID EGYPTIANS LIVE?

• Ancient Egyptians lived in houses made by bricks
  and mud
• Egyptians put straw and pebbles in bricks to
  harden
• Egyptians left the bricks outside in the sun to
  dry
• When the bricks were dry the Egyptians created
  their own houses

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WHAT KIND OF FURNITUER DID EGYPTIANS HAVE?

• The furniture they had was stools and beds. The
  stools were made out of wood and had padded
  leather or woven rush seat. The stools 3 or 4
  legs were often carved to look like animal legs.
  The beds they had were rectangular wooden frames
  with a mat of woven cords. Instead of using
  pillows, the Egyptians used a crescent-shaped
  headrest at one end of the bed .

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WHAT KIND OF GAMES DID EGYPTIANS HAVE?

• Ancient Egyptians had all kinds of games for fun
  and fitness. As the same as pictures, board games
  have also been found in tombs from the same time.
  A lot of the fitness type of games drawn in
  paintings of common games such as hockey, which
  used long palm tree branches for sticks and a
  puck made from stuffed papyrus in between two
  pieces of leather.

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WHAT KIND OF FOOD DID EGYPTIANS EAT?

• The Egyptians ate a great amount of grain, fish,
  and fruits. Fish, just like grain, was a huge
  part of the Egyptians daily diet. Eating fish was
  some of the upper class Egyptians, and fish was
  never used as grave offering. Meat was eaten by
  normal people only on special reasons, because
  the high price and scarceness of cattle. The rich
  Egyptians could afford to have meat in every meal
  and they did. The different type of meats
  included beef, pork, geese, duck, a variety of
  birds, sheep, and goats.

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WHY WERE EGYPTIANS MUMMIFIED?

• Mummification was a ritual, so the priests who
  participated were trained to perform the process
  with both surgical and ritual precision. . The
  first step in the process was to make a cut in
  the abdomen, below the ribs, on the left side of
  the body. This first incision was done with a
  special flint knife, and all other cutting was
  done with an ordinary metal blade. They had to
  cut into the body so that they could take out
  special organs. Next the brain would be extracted
  through the nose and then thrown away. After
  that, the body and organs were saved by putting
  spices and dried out in natron salt. The entire
  process took about 70 days. Then the body was
  wrapped in linen.

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HOW DID EGYPTIANS WHEAR THEIR HAIR?

• Children had unusual hairstyles in ancient Egypt.
  Their hair was shaved off except a lock of hair
  left on the side of the head. Men wore their hair
  short and left their ears visible. Women wore
  their hair smooth, close coiffure with a long
  curl.

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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CULTURE

• Ancient Egyptians had a cool culture. They had
  houses, hairstyles, had a daily diet, and were
  mummified. So that is how Ancient Egyptians lived
  in their culture.

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BLIBIOGRAPHY

• http//www. clpgh. org /cmnh/exhibits/ Egypt/
  Daily life. html
• www. Game cabinet. com
• http//www.iw-chameleon.co.uk/12life.htm