Housing

Runyon Tyler

Where did Egyptians live?

• A lot of ancient Egyptians lived in villages and town located on the Nile valley.

• Lower class people lived in small houses and wealthier Egyptians lived in bigger, fancier houses.
• Royal families and other government officials lived in bigger cities.

How where buildings and houses made?

• Tombs, temples, and monuments in ancient Egypt were made out of stone.
• Houses for the pheasants and for the wealthy were made out of mud bricks. They got the mud from the Nile.
• To create mud bricks laborers carved mud in rectangular molds and set them out to dry to become sturdy and hard.
• These houses were made facing north to allow the calm northern wind to enter and flow through the houses providing cool air for the Egyptians.
• The wealthy people had houses which were plastered and painted.

What were ancient Egyptians houses like?

• Very poor people only had a few table and a bed to spare.

• Most people sat on the ground, mats, or cushions.
• The wealthy Egyptians had houses usually built around a central courtyard.
• Very few wealthy Egyptians had a tree shaded pool, flowers, and bushes.

• These wealthy house usually contained a large central hall, bedrooms, a bathroom, and a kitchen with servant quarters.• The wealthy Egyptians had stools, tables, beds, chests, pots and lamps.Image sources:
•  They went to the bathroom in a hole.

[Image]https://5ch.wikispaces.com/Egyptian+tribal+life.Sept 16, 2015.Web.

[Image]http://www.crystalinks.com/egypthomes.html.Sept 16, 2015.Web.