As in villages throughout Egypt today, ancient Egyptian houses were built of mudbrick, with palm logs used to support their roofs and ceilings. Mudbrick, also known as adobe, is a cheap and practical material. It was easy to build with and the materials were free and readily available.

Homes in Ancient Egypt were constructed from mud bricks and papyrus. The annual flooding of the Nile made mud a plentiful raw material, which was formed into bricks that dried solid in the sun. Wood was in short supply, so only tended to be used for doorways, ceiling supports and furniture.

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Bedrooms would often feature carved wooden chests, tables, and wardrobes in addition to stand-alone cabinets. Dark wood was often laced with golden accents, and details such as clawed feet and patterned trims channelled unique design concepts.

Household slaves slept in dormitories. Interpretation of the textual evidence of classes of slaves in ancient Egypt has been difficult to differentiate by word usage alone. Most people lived in mud brick homes.

Agriculture Farming

Slaves were very important in ancient Egypt as a big part of the labor force, but they were also used for many other purposes. Many slaves were house servants, gardeners, farm labor, musicians and dancers of excellent talent, scribes (those that kept written documents), and accountants.

Egyptian Slaves Clothes However, some slaves used simple clothing articles usually made of animal skin or linen. The male slaves who did wear the clothes mostly used a short linen kilt while the ancient Egyptian clothing for female slaves mainly consisted of skirts which extended from the shoulders to the ankles.

Nemes

Historians call Egypt “the gift of the Nile” because the Nile River provides water for farming. Every spring, snows melt in the mountains of eastern Africa. The ‘black land’ was the fertile land on the banks of the Nile. The ancient Egyptians used this land for growing their crops.

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As early as 10,000 BC, Egyptians and Mesopotamians wore various cosmetics including eye liner not only for aesthetics but to protect the skin from the desert sun. Research has also speculated that eye liner was worn to protect the wearer from the evil eye.

Bracelets, rings, earrings, necklaces, pins, belt buckles and amulets were made from gold and silver inlaid with precious stones such as lapis lazuli, turquoise, carnelian and amethyst. Faience and glass were also used to decorate pieces of jewellery.

The crook (heka) and flail (nekhakha) were symbols used in ancient Egyptian society. They were originally the attributes of the deity Osiris that became insignia of pharaonic authority. The shepherd’s crook stood for kingship and the flail for the fertility of the land.

Flail, ancient hand tool for threshing grain. It consists of two pieces of wood: the handstaff, or helve, and the beater, joined by a thong.

The Uraeus (/jʊəˈriːəs/; plural Uraei or Uraeuses; from the Greek οὐραῖος, ouraîos, “on its tail”; from Egyptian jꜥrt (iaret), “rearing cobra”) is the stylized, upright form of an Egyptian cobra, used as a symbol of sovereignty, royalty, deity and divine authority in ancient Egypt.

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In real life, most ancient Egyptian men were clean shaven but pharaohs often wore fake beards, usually made of metal, as a symbol of their connection to the gods. Contemporary depictions of Hatshepsut portray her in traditionally feminine clothing, wearing a false beard.

Hatshepsut declared herself pharaoh, ruling as a man would for over 20 years and portraying herself in statues and paintings with a male body and false beard.

Ramses II

King Ramses II

She lived in Egypt, where the descendants of Israel were being oppressed. The Pharaoh had decreed that all their baby boys were to be thrown into the Nile, because he feared that they might become too powerful.

In this scene from the biblical book of Exodus, Moses and Aaron (upper right) visit the pharaoh, who is mourning his son. The Egyptian ruler’s son had died from one of the plagues sent by God to secure the Israelites’ release from Egypt. The gloom of the painting reflects the father’s intense grief.

Amram married his aunt, Jochebed, the sister of his father Kehath.

The heartless Pharaoh still refused to free the Israelite slaves. So God, brought about one last plague, which was so terrible that it was certain to persuade Pharaoh to let his slaves go. That night, God sent the angel of death to kill the firstborn sons of the Egyptians.