First Intermediate Period
First Intermediate Period: a time of climate crisis? A Nilometer on Elephantine Island (Nile Valley Tours) - This ancient Egyptian device measured how high the Nile floods were each year. [...]
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Pharaoh – Egyptian King or Queen – Government in ancient Egypt
Amenemhet III, Egyptian pharaoh (Egyptian king) Pharaoh: an Egyptian king or queen The Egyptian Pharaoh (FARE-oh) owned all of Egypt, and everything in it: all the land, all the tools, [...]
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Ancient Egyptian games: play and toys in ancient Egypt
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. [...]
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Ancient Egyptian Food – Eating and drinking in ancient Egypt
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 [...]
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Ancient Egyptian plants – papyrus and palm trees
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 [...]
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Egyptian geography and environment
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 [...]
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Ancient Egyptian Animals: wild and tame
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 [...]
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Farming in Ancient Egypt – Egyptian farming
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 [...]
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Shoes in Ancient Egypt – Straw flip-flops
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 [...]
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Clothing in Ancient Egypt: weaves and flip-flops
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 [...]
