Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Breakfast was usually figs, dates, bread, butter & honey and fresh milk. A mid-morning snack was just a glass of wine. Lunch was usually bread and fish. Dinner with the family was roasted meats, lentils and carrots. The primary drink that Egyptians drank was beer that was made from barley.
Their food was cooked in clay ovens and eaten off clay dishes.
Craftsman in Ancient Egyptian Times
- bead makers
- merchants
- weavers
- metalworkers
- brick makers
- bread makers
- sculptors
- goldsmiths
- painters
- carpenters
- rock cutters
- jewelers
- stone workers
- carpenter
- potters
- glass workers
- leather workers
- spinners
Due to the hot weather in Egypt, most craftsmen and women wore white linen clothes. Men wore kilts and women wore a straight dress. Egyptians believed that looking nice and being clean was very important. Almost everyone, men & women wore jewelery of some type. They believed that it protected their health, ward of evil spirits an bring good luck. The richest peoples jewelery was made from gold & silver and the poorer peoples was made from copper. Because Egyptians wanted to always look their best, makeup was worn by both sexes. The main type of makeup used was eye paint.
Up until the age of 4, Ancient Egyptian children stayed with their mothers. Once the boys were 4 they started getting education by their fathers. Village schools provided a general education were the children were taught writing, reading, maths, sports as well as morals to live by and manors. At the age of 14, the boys left school and helped they’re fathers with work. They nearly always took the profession that their father had.
The main religious belief that Egyptian craftsman believed in was eternal afterlife. The main religious custom that Egyptian craftsman practiced was mummification. Ancient Egyptian people believed that if you were not prepared properly for the afterlife, they would not reach it. Most craftsman weren’t wealthy enough to be buried in a tomb but could afford grave stones. These Craftsman were mummified and buried along with food, amulets and furniture for the afterlife.
Most families lived in fairly small sun-baked mud houses. They didn’t have many windows or furniture. The houses had flat roofs which were used during summer, as beds, when it got too hot inside.