Scribes and Bureaucrats of Ancient Egypt Few skills were more important in Egypt than the ability to read and write. No illiterate could hold high office. Knowledge of reading, writing and arithmetic made the scribe a person of importance http: //rom.on.ca/programs/activities/egypt/lea...
Marriage and Adulthood in Ancient Egypt Were there ceremonies to mark the end of childhood? Young boys seem to have been initiated into manhood through a circumcision ceremony http: //rom.on.ca/programs/activities/egypt/lea...
Servants of Ancient Egypt Considerable numbers of people made their living as washermen and women, porters, maids, weavers and cooks. The tombs of the rich and famous are filled with images of servants http: //rom.on.ca/programs/activities/egypt/lea...
Daily Life of Ancient Egypt What do we really know about the lives of the ancient Egyptians? Tomb paintings and sacred hieroglyphic texts provide a glimpse into the world of the elite... http: //civilization.ca/civil/egypt/egcl01e.htm...
Ancient Egyptian Food Ancient Egyptian Foods http: //mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/egypt/daily...
Calendar The Egyptian calendar was based of a year of 365 days, with twelve months and three seasons. Each month had three ten-day weeks, for a total of 30 days http: //civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/civil/e...
Medicine The doctors of ancient Egypt combined magic spells with remedies. If a person fell sick, the illness was thought to be caused by the wrath of the gods or by an evil spirit that had entered the body http: //civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/civil/e...
Merchants of Ancient Egypt There are images in Old Kingdom tombs of people at markets, buying and selling. Commerce was carried on by barter http: //rom.on.ca/programs/activities/egypt/lea...
