Life in Ancient Egypt
Used to travel long distances, for example between the Mediterranean and the First Cataract, these are depicted in wooden burial models.
What are boats?
This is the process of preserving a body for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
One of the two grains that were widely used to produce bread in ancient egypt.
What is Emmer or Barley?
Ancient burial models first made an appearance, sharing placement with side large scale tomb goods during this Ancient Egyptian time period.
What is the Predynastic Period?
These two comfort food and drink items are portrayed in the Bakery and Brewery Model found in many tombs of ancient Egyptians.
What are bread and beer?
Ancient Egyptian craftsman used this tool to carve wooden burial models, still used in workshops today.
What is a chisel?
Construction workers who built burial tombs were paid, not with money, but with these items.
What are bread and beer?
This geographic feature of Egypt was essential in its ability to produce grains and other crops.
What is the Nile River?
Ancient Egyptian burial models were originally created using this material.
What is limestone?
Ancient Egyptian's mostly ate this type of diet which did not include meat.
What is vegetarianism?
In wooden burial models, Ancient Egyptians are depicted wearing clothing made of this material.
What is linen?
This general term is used for the items placed in tombs to sustain the deceased in the afterlife.
What are grave goods?
These granite stone mills were constructed of round or circular stones and were used to mill grain and are represented in wooden bakery models.
What is a quern?
During the Middle Kingdom, Egyptian burial practices evolved from burying actual items in the tombs of pharaohs and elites, like boats or even live servants, to including these instead.
What are wooden models?
This is the most popularly consumed national tradition dish in Egypt that has origins from ancient Egypt.
What is Koshary?
What are stables?
During the afterlife, a person's body is reunited with it's soul, also called this.
What is Ka?
This annual natural event was vitally important to Egyptian life and its importance is recognized in subjects depicted in wooden burial models found, like food production and boats.
What is flooding of the Nile?
These are the two most popular items depicted in wooden burial models of Ancient Egypt.
What are boats and food production items?
This Arabic word used for the acidic beer beverages brewed in ancient Egypt is extremely similar to this modern day slang word used for beer.
What is Booze (modern English slang) or Boozah (Arabic)?
Often tombs included clay models called shabtis, a far more practical choice in lieu of including these, which shabtis represented.
What are servants?
Wooden models of boats were intended to transport the dead to the afterlife, overseen by the ancient Egyptian god Osiris who ruled the underworld and afterlife, called this.
What is Duat?
Once known as the "breadbasket of Rome" due to its abundance of grains and ability to export excess grain to cities along the Mediterranean sea, modern day Egypt has become a major grain importer. What global factor has caused this switch in fortune?
What is global climate change?
What are Walls to Coffins?
The word for the whole wheat grain used to make bread is Eish. This word emphasizes the vital importance of bread as a staple in Egyptian diet and means what, in English?
What is "living?"