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Horrible Histories The Pharoh Report. Cleopatra song horrible histories. Hatshepsut. Welcome to Neferchichi's Tomb at neferchichi.com. Heiroglyphics. Horrible Histories - Hieroglyphics. Ancient Egyptian Food - Ancient Egypt for Kids! Egyptian bread from the New Kingdom (Vatican Museum, Rome) Because Egypt is in Africa, but very close to West Asia, what people ate in ancient Egypt was midway between African and West Asian food.

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Wheat, barley, and olive oil, all originally from West Asia, gave Egyptians most of their calories. Egyptian models of clay beer jars (Louvre Museum, Paris) Egyptian bakers made both wheat and barley into bread and into soup and porridge (like oatmeal), and they also fermented barley to make beer. In fact, some people think the real reason that the Egyptians first began growing grain was to make beer. Model of a butcher shop (from the Louvre, Paris, France) Egyptians didn't eat a lot of meat, but their meat also came from animals that had been domesticated further north in West Asia or Central Asia: mostly beef and lamb. Egyptian dates But people in Egypt ate African food, too. Archaeologists have also found seeds which show that the Egyptians grew watermelons, and other kinds of melon. or.

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Tomb of the Unknown Mummy. Ancient Egypt at mrdowling.com. Like a giant snake, the Nile River slithers through some of the driest desert land on earth to create a narrow green valley.

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The ancient Greeks called this land Egypt. For more than five thousand years, famous and often mysterious civilizations thrived along the banks of the Nile. About 450BCE, a Greek historian named Herodotus called Egypt the “Gift of the Nile” because the Egyptian civilization depended on the resources of the great river. Every spring, the snow on the mountains of East Africa melted, sending a torrent of water that overflowed the banks of the Nile and flooded the river valley. The rushing river picked up bits of soil and plant life called silt.

The Nile made it possible for the people of ancient Egypt to form the first nation in history. The Nile no longer overflows its banks because modern Egyptians built a huge dam in Aswan. Download this lesson as Microsoft Word file or as an Adobe Acrobat file. Listen as Mr. View the Powerpoint Presentation of this lesson. Daily Life in Ancient Egypt - Free Lesson Plans, Games, Activities, Presentations. The ancient Egyptians enjoyed their life to the fullest.

Daily Life in Ancient Egypt - Free Lesson Plans, Games, Activities, Presentations

They worked very hard, but saved time to enjoy family, friends, music, parties, swimming, fishing, hunting, sailing, and especially their children, all of which were very important to the ancient Egyptians. They believed in an afterlife, a real place you went after you died. The ancient Egyptians prepared for their afterlife by filling their tombs with small and large statutes of friends and family, and little statues of workers who would do all their chores for them, along with other items they might need to keep them company and to help them have a good time in their afterlife!

To reach this wonderful afterlife, the ancient Egyptians believed they had to do all kinds of good deeds while they were alive to keep their heart light. What happened to them if their heart was not light when they died? Do you know what weird and yucky thing the ancient Egyptians believed would cure a toothache? Explore "Deep in the Tombs of Egypt! "

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