The ancient Egyptian civilization lasted approximately 3000 years and was divided into nine distinct time periods. Daily life was structured around a social hierarchy with the pharaoh at the top. Most Egyptians lived in mud brick houses and ate a diet of bread and beer and some meat and fruits. Children started helping with work around age 5, and wealthy boys could attend school to learn reading, writing, and mathematics. Religion was the most important part of Egyptian life and centered around many gods. Art forms included painting, sculpture, architecture, and pottery.

1. Daily Life in Ancient
Egypt
By Chloe

2. Map of
Civilization • The ancient Egypt
civilization lasted
approximately 3000
years.
• There were nine
distinct time
periods in these
3000 years such as
pre-dynastic and
New Kingdom.

3. Ancient Egypt Timeline

4. Background
• The ancient Egyptian
civilization was a civilization
that believed strongly in gods
and they believed that their
leaders were gods that were on
the earth.
• This civilization was known for
the pharaohs that ruled and for
creating the pyramids and
mummification.

5. Social Structure
• The pharaoh is at the
top of the structure and
is the leader of all the
citizens. Everyone must
obey the pharaohs
orders, even the priests
and nobles. After the
nobles comes traders
and shopkeepers, then
farmers. The unskilled
workers are on the
bottom of the pyramid
and obey orders from
all the other people.

6. Housing
• The houses that ancient
Egyptians lived in were
made out of mud bricks that
were put into moulds and
left in the sun to harden.
Then the bricks were
stacked to build the walls.
The wealthy and important
people built their houses
out of two brick layers. Each
house usually had four •Ancient Egyptians usually
rooms, one room was in the used their roofs as living
center and was called the space because it was hard to
central room. The kitchen, get good lighting inside.
storage room, and bedroom Some wealthy people even
came off the side of the
central room. had ponds or small pools in
their yards.

7. Food
• Most of the ancient
Egyptians’ diet was made
up of bread because one of
the few foods they could
grow was wheat. They
even added hops to the
wheat to make beer and
liquor. Also ancient
Egyptians ate beef, mutton,
duck and goose. They
wouldn’t eat pigs because
they believed that pigs
carried leprosy. For fruits,
they ate mostly melons
and dates.

8. Family Life
• The man of the house would be
the one who worked and
brought in the money, but
sometimes the mother would
work too. Mostly, the women
stayed home to care for the
children and clean. For
entertainment, people would
usually play chess-like board
games. Men would usually
compete in things like archery
and hunting to entertain
themselves as well. If your
family was poor, they didn't buy
clothes for their young children.

9. Marriage
• When a young man was around 16-
20 years old, he would look for a
wife. Marriage is arranged by the
parents and the bride and the
groom don't choose who they
marry. One a couple started living
together, they were considered
married. There was no such thing
as marriage contracts in ancient
Egypt. It was not uncommon for
ancient Egyptians to get divorced,
but it was considered a disgrace. A
divorce was basically either the
man or woman leaving the house
and taking whatever they brought
into their new family.

10. Childhood
• Not one gender was preferred in
ancient Egypt, both boy and girl
children were wanted, but the
males were considered stronger, so
they helped with physical work
around the house at an early age.
Most children didn’t make it past 4
years old because of the
consumption of contaminated
food. If a child lived over five, then
they were probably strong enough
to stay healthy. Around age 5 is
when children start to help their
parents with work around the
house or farm.

11. Education
• Wealthy male children usually got to
go to school and learn to read,
write, and use mathematics. If
someone knew how to read and
write, they could be a scribe and
earn a lot of money. Even though
girls couldn’t go to school, they
might be taught by their father or
brother. School for children in
ancient Egypt was basically copying
and writing sentences and phrases
until they had perfect spelling and
grammar.

12. Religion
• For the ancient Egyptians, religion was the
most important aspect of their life because
it guided them through every problem.
They were really religious and thought that
their pharaohs were gods that lived on
earth, so they respected and obeyed them
very well. The Egyptians have many tales
about how the gods created the world.
There was more than one god in the
Egyptian religion. There was a sun god, a
sky god, a wisdom god, a creator god, a
women goddess, a mummification god, a
vegetation god and a ruler of the
underworld.

13. Clothing
• Most of the clothes that ancient
Egyptians wore were made of linen
and weren’t dyed because linen is
hard to dye. Most people wore
beaded necklaces and bracelets for
colour. Women wore dresses that
were either strapless or had two
shoulder straps. These dresses
usually reached the floor. Men wore
kilts that went down to just past the
knees with one shoulder strap. In
winter, people wore heavy cloaks
that fell to just above the ankles.

14. Art and Music
• Ancient Egyptians played musical
instruments such as flute-like wind
instruments made of reeds or wood.
Also they played simple kinds of
harps and used wood and reeds to
make shakers and other percussion
instrument.
• Their arts were usually paintings and
sculptures. The Egyptians also took
pride in making their homes look
attractive, so architecture was also a
big art form. Making pots and urns,
and decorating them was also an
ancient Egyptian art.

15. Conclusion
• Overall, the ancient Egyptians
were very intelligent and
invented many things that we
couldn’t live without today.
Their daily life was simpler
than our life, but was very
advanced for their time
period. Everything from the
rules about marriage, to their
art and musical instruments
were very civilized for an
ancient culture.

16. Picture bibliography
• Title picture (slide 1)
http://egypthistorytourism.blogspot.com/2010/10/ancient-
egypt.html
• Map (slide 2)
http://www.jimloy.com/egypt/map.htm
• Timeline (slide 3)
• http://www.tigtail.org/TIG/L_View/TVM/E/Ancient/Egypt/egy
ptian.html
• Pharaoh (slide 4)
http://euler.slu.edu/~bart/egyptianhtml/kings%20and%20Quee
ns/TUTANKHAMEN.htm

17. Picture Bibliography 2
• Social pyramid (slide 5)
• http://thecorefour.glogster.com/the-nile-civilization-of-
egypt/
• Wheat plant (slide 7)
• http://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/ancient-egyptian-
food.html
• Family life (slide 8)
• http://www.hartifacts.com/phoenix/festival/winetour/W
T_resource.htm
• Marriage (slide 9)
• http://www.awakening-
healing.com/Egyptian_Gods_&_Goddesses.htm

18. Picture Bibliography 3
• Children (slide 10)
• http://euro-med.dk/?s=blue+cards
• Hieroglyphics (slide 11)
• http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/trinity/projects/egypt/alphabet.html
• Egyptian god Horus (slide 12)
• http://professortravel-egypt.com/ancientreligions.html
• Egyptian clothing (slide 13)
• http://www.islandnet.com/~kpotter/egypt/cloth.htm
• Pots and urns (slide 14)
• http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Egyptian_Min
iature_Glasswares.jpg
• Harp (slide 14)
• http://www.zwoje-scrolls.com/zwoje39/text07p.htm
• Ancient Egyptian people (slide 15)
• http://www.one-ppm.com/Libya/LibyanPeople.htm

19. Information bibliography
• http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_long_did_the_civili
zation_of_ancient_Egypt_last
• http://historylink101.net/egypt_1/a-housing.htm
• http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/egypt/food/egy
ptfood.htm
Salariya, David. How Would you Survive as an Ancient
Egyptian.
Franklin Watts publishing, 1995
• http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2/21701778/
• http://www2.sptimes.com/Egypt/EgyptCredit.4.3.ht
ml

20. Information
Bibliography 2
Toutant, Arnold. Ancient Worlds
Oxford Press, 2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_ancient_Eg
ypt