Ancient Egypt Egyptian life
by Nika and Rena 4ยบB 2014
Daily life in ancient Egypt grew around the Nile and the fertile land along its banks. The yearly flooding of the Nile enriched the soil and brought good harvests and wealth to the land.
• The people of ancient Egypt built mudbrick homes in villages and in the country. They grew some of their own food and traded in the villages for the food and goods they could not produce.
• Most ancient Egyptians worked as field hands, farmers, craftsmen and scribes. A small group of people were nobles. Together, these different groups of people made up the population of ancient Egypt
Horses were not common in ancient Egypt. Sometimes they were owned by wealthy people and pulled private chariots. However they were more commonly used to pull war chariots.
This is the body of a duck whose feathers were plucked off so that it could be cooked. Ducks were very common in ancient Egypt. The ancient Egyptians hunted them on the banks of the Nile
Wine was a very popular drink in ancient Egypt. It was kept in large pottery jugs and served in bowls.
Nebamun was a nobleman who lived in ancient Egypt during the 18th dynasty (around 1400 B.C.). In this scene he is shown hunting for birds with his wife and daughter. Nebamun did not really have to hunt for fish or birds to feed his family. Hunting and fishing were seen as sport for noblemen in ancient Egypt. By including this scene in his tomb, Nebamun was hoping to ensure that there would be plenty of birds and fish to hunt in the afterlife.
Every season a landowner would have to give a portion of his harvest to the pharaoh as tax. It was this man's job to make sure that the boundary stones which marked a farmer's property were in place. If the boundary stones were in the right place he would figure out how much tax to charge the farmer on his crops. The hieroglyphs above his head read, 'As the great god in heaven endures the stone is correct, its position stands fast'.
Scribes kept track of the amount of grain that grew in a landowner's fields every year. Each landowner would have to give a portion of their harvest to the pharaoh as tax depending on how good a harvest they had. This man's title is written inhieroglyphs above his head. It reads, 'Head of the grain-measurers of the granary'.