Housing
Sonia Shah
- Where did the Ancient Egyptians live?
- They lived in the towns and villages
- In the Nile valley
- The poorer people lived in houses wedged in between the wealthier people’s houses.
- All the houses were made out of mud bricks
- Royal families and government officials lived in larger cities, though still in the Nile Valley
- The larger cities were the centers of trade and government business
- What were temples, tombs, monuments and houses made up of?
- Temples, tombs, and monuments were made up of stone so they would last for eternity
- Egyptian homes were made of mud bricks; they got the mud rom the Nile
- To make the mud bricks they would shape the mud into rectangular molds and leave them outside in the sun to bake
- What type of furniture did the people have?
- Poorer people had very few furniture pieces, the most they usually had were a table and two beds
- The poor people usually sat on a mattress or cushion
- Wealthy people were very large, sometimes two stories high
- For light they had many lamps, and for natural light they could not use windows because they were not made of glass so they used the slats instead.
Image Sources
[Image] http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/timelines/topics/furniture.htm September 16, 2015 Web
[Image] http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/EGYPT/headrest.html September 16, 2015 Web