Ancient Egyptian games: knucklebones Egyptian board games: senet and mancala Ancient Egyptian games were a lot like some games people still play today. Some Egyptian games were traditional African games. [...]
Ancient Egyptian food: Actual bread from Egypt's New Kingdom (Vatican Museum, Rome) Ancient Egyptian food: from both Africa and West Asia Because Egypt is in Africa, but very close to [...]
Date palm Palms and papyrus The plants that grew in ancient Egypt were very different from plants that grow in America or Britain. The lotus and the papyrus plants, for [...]
Egyptian geography: a map showing the Sahara desert and the Nile river The Sahara Desert Egypt has a very special environment, which has played a very big part in Egyptian [...]
Ancient Egyptian animals: Crocodiles from the New Kingdom What kind of animals lived in ancient Egypt? Mostly, the same kinds of animals lived in ancient Egypt as in other parts [...]
Egyptian farming: Ancient Egyptian cattle plowing (Louvre Museum, Paris) When did Egyptians start to farm? The Egyptians started farming a little later than their neighbors in West Asia and about the same [...]
Ancient Egyptian shoes: Straw flip-flops from ancient Egypt Many Egyptians went barefoot Many people in ancient Egypt went barefoot their whole lives. It was warm in Egypt even in the [...]
Ancient Egyptian clothing: Rahotep and Nefret Ancient Egyptian tunics Unlike most of the people of the ancient Mediterranean, people in ancient Egypt did not wear just one or two big [...]
Rahotep and Nefret You might think that Egyptian art would start out not very good, a little rough, and then little by little artists would learn more about carving and painting [...]
Rameses III and prisoners About 1500 BC, new rulers unified Egypt again as the New Kingdom. At first, their sculptures and paintings were not much different from the sculptures and [...]
