Welcome to Ancient Egypt

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Welcome to Ancient Egypt

• By Katie McKenzie

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The food

• The people ate many different
  types of food. They ate duck,
  goose, fish, beans, chickpeas, leeks, lettuce,
  radishes, cucumber, garlic, bread, olive oil,
  sweet cakes, figs, grapes and pomegranates. They
  wouldnt eat all of these in one meal, but they
  would eat some of these foods in one meal.

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What Are You??

• There were so many different kinds of people in
  ancient Egypt. There were servants, viziers,
  scribes, pharaohs, a Queen, children, King Tut,
  priests, priestesses, mummies, Isis, Anubis,
  Osiris, plasters, coffin-bearers, stone carvers,
  water carriers, stonemasons, porters, foremen,
  carpenters and their assistants, policemen and
  ferrymen. These are some of the different people
  who lived in ancient Egypt but there are a lot
  more.

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Need A Roof??

• There are so many different types of shelter in
  ancient Egypt. There was a pharaoh's palace,
  temples, shrines, side chambers, storerooms,
  mortuary temples, burial chambers, tombs, village
  tombs, houses, canopic shrines, and funeral
  biers. These were all types of shelters in
  ancient Egypt. If the Egyptians ever needed
  shelter they might go to one of these places.

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What To Wear

• In ancient Egypt what would you wear on your
  feet? If I were an ancient Egyptian I would wear
  sandals, so would everyone else! You could also
  wear a kilt, or even a long sheath dress. Most of
  the fabric was poor and not very good fabric.
  Sometimes they would use loincloth, or palm tree
  leaves or even papyrus. Most of the time the
  clothes were made out of linen. All of the kids
  wore nothing and when they were older they
  dressed like their parents.

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Architecture

• When the Egyptians made houses they were a lot
  alike. They would all look alike with the same
  amount of rooms. The house had one main room
  called the central room and it had a bunch of
  smaller rooms grouped around it. All the rooms
  around the main room kept cold in the summer and
  warm in the winter. Every room was average height
  except for the central room. It is a lot higher.
  The houses and buildings were made of sun dried
  bricks because of the annual flooding in the
  Nile. The tools used were square mallets, plumb
  lines, dowel pegs, and the smoothing trowels.
  They used wood to make the buildings.

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Learning

• In ancient Egypt only the boys went to school and
  they learned how to read and write. The wealthy
  boys started school when they turned four. If the
  child was talking, sleepy, slow or lazy they
  would be beaten on the back with a rod. The kids
  had school at the school masters house. Boys
  that went to school were dismissed at 1200 p.m.
  In ancient Egypt papyrus was too expensive so
  they wrote on white and polished limestone. The
  writing kit they used was called a scribe.

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Beliefs

• In ancient Egypt they believed that the world
  started in darkness then sun gods came out, then
  there was light. They also believed that the
  world was ruled by many different gods.
  Apparently the gods ruled the temples. The
  priests gave offerings to keep the gods happy.
  Average people were not allowed in the temple. In
  ancient Egypt there was a shrine in every house
  and Ra was the king of the gods. Orisis is the
  god of the underworld and the dead.

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Sports

• The ancient Egyptians had archery, rowing,
  marathons, javelin throwing, swimming and
  wrestling. These are the main sports they did.
  Some of the sports they did we still do today.
  For archery their equipment was a wooden arch and
  bow, and the marathons were more like relay
  races.

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The environment

• In ancient Egypt they had a river Nile that went
  all the way through the country.

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Bibliography

• An Egyptian Town by R.J. Unstead
• Life in Ancient Egypt by Paul Challen
• www.ancientegypt-online.com
• http//www.touregypt.net/magazine/ancientegyptianp
  eople.htm