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By Colm Moran
Bread was the most important food in the
diet of ancient Egypt. Harvested grain was
stored in huge granaries until needed. The
Egyptians favourite drink was beer. It was
very thick and had to be strainned before
drinking.
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Egyptian traders did not use money to buy
and sell goods. Instead they battered
[exchanged goods] with other traders.
Merchants visted the countries bordering
the Mediterranean sea as well as those lands
to the south. The Egyptians offered goods
such as gold a kind of paper called papyruus
and cattle
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Pharaoh.
Preists.
Nobles.
Merchants.
Crafts people.
Farmers.
Laboures.
Slaves.
Most Egyptian lived in huts made with dried mud
bricks.
Most houses had three or four rooms.
Wealty Egyptians may have had as many as70
rooms in their house.
Small windows helped keep out the sun heat.
Weat mats helped cool the air inside the houses.
• Foot soilders carried metal swords and
spears with shields made of wood or ox
hair. Later soldiers were protected by body
armour made from strips of leather.
• Specially trained soldiers fired arrows from
their bows while riding in horse-drawn
charriots. Each charriot had two soldiers an
was pulled by a pair of horses.
Asking of both upper and lower Egypt the
pharaoh wore double crown made up of the
white crown of upper Egypt and the red
crown of lower Egypt
The Egyptians expressed their artistic
genious in various ways,inculding beatiful
paintings,sculpture and jewellery.Religion
was at the core of their socity,so most of
their art depicted gods,goddeses and
pharaohs.Wall paintings were mainly found
in tombs and temples.
The main method of transport in ancient
Egypt was by boat along the river Nile. The
Nile is the world’s longest river. It flows
across the entire length of the desert lands
of Egypt.
Mummmies were made in Egypt for almost
4000 years.Mummies-makers experimented
with different methods of prserving the
dead , some of which worked better than
others .The best mummies were made
during the time of egyptian history called
the New Kingdom between 3550and 3069
years ago.