Daily Life in Ancient Egypt (Ancient Egyptian Family Life)
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- Why didn’t the ancient Egyptians have a marriage ceremony? What was family life like in ancient Egypt? Find out in this video.
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It may surprise you to learn that there was no official marriage ceremony in ancient Egypt and that marriage was not tied to religion. Why was this so? And what was ancient Egyptian family life like after marriage? Did couples live on their own or with extended family? What was expected of ancient Egyptian sons and daughters?
In this video, we’ll talk about ancient Egyptian family life and the expectations placed on married couples, parents, and children with examples drawn from art and legal documents from the ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom.
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☥ Koenraad Donker van Heel, Mrs. Naunakhte & Family - amzn.to/2fJLr1Z ☥
An engaging read about life in the ancient village at Deir el-Medina, centered around the family of the woman named Naunakht
☥ A. G. Mc Dowell, Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs - amzn.to/2yXEqmD ☥
A wonderful collection of ancient Egyptian documents (translated into English) from the ancient village of Deir el-Medina.
☥ Kasia Szpakowska, Daily Life in Ancient Egypt - amzn.to/2xgMPo0 ☥
An engaging read based on original source documents from ancient Egypt. It is about what life would have been like at the ancient town of Lahun during the late Middle Kingdom period, centered around the life of a fictitious, “middle-class,” young girl named Hedjerit.
☥ Carolyn Graves-Brown, Dancing for Hathor: Women in Ancient Egypt - amzn.to/2yYpiFh ☥
An up-to-date and comprehensive - but understandable - examination of the lives of women in ancient Egypt.
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☥The Instruction of Ani:
Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Vol. II: The New Kingdom. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976, p. 136. amzn.to/2xV1ZMR
☥Census records for Hori’s household:
From UC 32163. See Mark Collier and Stephen Quirke, The UCL Lahun Papyri: Religious, Literary, Legal, Mathematical and Medical, BAR International Series 1209. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2004, pp. 112-115. amzn.to/2xTLbFK
☥Legal document (imyt pr) of Naunakht:
From Ashmolean 1945.95 and 1945.97. See J Černý, “The Will of Naunakhte and the Related Documents,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 31 (1945), pp. 29-53.
For an up-to-date discussion of Naunakht’s life and times, see Koenraad Donker van Heel, Mrs. Naunakhte & Family. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2016. amzn.to/2fJLr1Z
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Amazing video! Loved the funny comments the characters made!
Thanks! I enjoyed making them "play along" with the narrative, especially Naunakht, as the evidence for her gives the impression of a woman of strong opinions and action, who would take no you-know-what.
I really like this video, it’s very clear, and understandable
This video was very helpful, as well as interesting and funny! Thank you for posting this!
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Great video tHanks!
Great presentation!
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This is great!
Thank you, Shana!
Great video!
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It was a nice video
These are amazing videos! I would love to see more about daily life in Ancient Egypt! What was their interactions like outside of their homes? Were they paid in money or goods, did they do whatever their parents did? What sorts of food customs did they have? These are great episodes, I just wish they were longer! Keep up the great work!
Thanks so much for your comment, jackgav1. It means a lot to me that you enjoy the videos that much!
These are all great questions - I will make a note of them for potential future video topics. I only wish there were more hours in the day, so I could make videos faster!
(P.S. I replied a couple of days ago, but when I came back today, I do not see my reply, so I am replying again. If the first reply did go through and this is repetitive, my apologies!)
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Thank you, Rebel Harry! What topics would you like to see in future videos?
The ancient Egyptian used different expressions on the marriage relationship, including “ir-hamat (taking a wife)”, and the wife was called “Merit (the beloved)” and “nabt-bar (the lady of the house). Very cool this topic
At Beni Hasan in the Tomb of Khety is a wall scene that clearly describes a marriage ceremony, including the presentation of a document, possibly some type of marriage certificate.
Thanks for the comment, Allan!
Do you mean the scene on the north wall of Khety's tomb (tomb 17) that shows a couple having sex on a bed? If so, where on that wall is the description of a marriage ceremony that you mention? By the way, recent examination and photographs from that area of the tomb show that what is being handed over actually looks like a bolt/roll of linen, not a document.
That was really funny!
Glad you enjoyed the humor 🙂
Who gets the cat/CD collection? Questions as old as time! LOL
+Stewart Herring LOL! Typically, women got 1/3 and men 2/3 of the shared marital property (what was acquired after marriage), but which items, pets, or people went with whom is hard to say!
Thank you for all of you to make egypt videos for kids to do homework that me im kid
You're welcome! I'm so glad that my videos are helpful!
Another great job! I knew there was divorce in ancient Egypt, but did not know it was not considered a disgrace. I had assumed divorcees would be something of an outcast. It is very enlightened of the AE's to not stigmatize divorce. I figure there were certainly people with personal opinons on it. I thought is was funny that one woman disinherited the kids that didn't take care of her. Ingrates! :-)
I find these aspects of ancient Egyptian society fascinating and love documents that give us a glimpse into relationships between specific people like Naunakht's legal documents. Even though we still don't (and can't) fully understand how people felt, acted, believed, etc., these documents - which often include transcriptions of what people actually said - bring so much life and character to people so far removed from us. It's truly amazing.
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Thanks!
what kind of jobs did they have???
Like most complex societies, there were many different jobs that people had. Most people were farmers, but many people also had other types of jobs making things (for example, basket weavers). A smaller number of people had jobs that required more education, such as working as a scribe in various settings, working as a literate priest who read aloud (and maybe even composed) religious texts, or working in high levels of government administration. This is definitely not an exhaustive list, as it would take ages to compile one!
Im goku
Naunakht aint got no time for brats #savage