Daily%20Life%20in%20Egypt

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Daily Life in Egypt
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Adorning the Body

• Light, simple clothing- made of linen

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• Men and women dyed their hair or wore wigs and
  used makeup
• Used perfumed pomade or fat

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• Rich and poor women and men wore jewelry such as
  rings, earrings, bracelets and armbands

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Burial Practices

• Believed in an afterlife, so they preserved the
  body of a dead person through embalming
• Poor people were wrapped in discarded clothes and
  buried in the ground

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• Mummification a sacred process with many steps
• Removal of organs- put in canopic jars
• Removal of brain
• Wrapping of the body apply natron
• Apply momia- black, gooey substance

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• Wealthier Egyptians were mummified, placed in
  boxes and buried in caves or tombs with everyday
  items to be used in the afterlife

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• Pharaohs had elaborate funerals and buried with
  treasures artifacts

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Crafts and Trade

• Artists and craftspeople highly skilled and
  created objects such as furniture, jewelry and
  pottery

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• Craftspeople taught their craft at young age at
  the pharaohs palace
• Traded grain, gold, copper, linen gemstones and
  minerals for timber, iron, silver, tin, and lead

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Domestic Life

• Most Egyptians married someone within their own
  social class at a young age

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• Upper-class women were in charge of their
  households
• Women in lower class houses cooked, cleaned and
  worked in the fields
• Women had certain rights and were equal to men in
  the eyes of the law
• Children were allowed to play and take part in
  the family

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Food and Drink

• Farmed to grow vegetables, wheat and barley which
  they made into bread and beer

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• Raised animals for meat (no pork) and ate
  vegetables such as peas, beans, lettuce and
  cucumbers

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• Drank beer and wine
• Lower class people ate simple meals, upper class
  had a wider variety of foods

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Housing

• Lived in small houses made of mud bricks
• Built close together in towns, villages, and
  cities

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• Lower class Egyptians lived in simple houses -
  few small rooms, narrow windows, little furniture
• Wealthy people had larger houses some 2 stories
  high some had bathrooms and pools

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Medicine

• Doctors used plants and herbs for treatment
• Doctors treated injuries and wounds with bandages
  and stitches
• Also relied on magicians to treat illness

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Music and Dance

• Music and dance performed at public and religious
  festivals, holidays, feasts
• Musicians and dancers mostly women and performed
  for royal court and nobles

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• Musicians played a variety of instruments
  including harp, lyre, flute oboe, tambourine and
  drums

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Religious Beliefs

• Polytheistic (many Gods)
• Theocracy- Government leader is also a religious
  leader
• Anubis prepared the body for the afterlife
• Osiris judged the soul by weighing the heart
  against a feather- determined if they reached the
  afterlife

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• Priests and priestesses carried out rituals in
  temples to honor Gods and Goddesses
• Commoners made offerings to Gods and Goddesses in
  their homes

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Social Classes
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Warfare

• Standing army of full-time soldiers throughout
  the empire
• Used weapons such as javelins and swords
  protected with shields, fought in chariots
• In peacetime soldiers dug canals or built
  pharaohs tombs

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Writing and Education

• Scribes were official record keepers-
  administered the laws, collected taxes, other
  government projects
• Hieroglyphic system complicated
• Scribe school very long, hard and strict
• Scribes came from all classes (only men) some
  women could read and write
• Wrote on papyrus- reed based paper