Ancient Egyptian Life

1. Ancient Egyptian clothes were often made from lightweight linen to keep them cool.

2. Many Ancient Egyptians went barefoot, but some wore sandals Ancient Egyptian sandals were made of papyrus or leather.

3. Ancient Egyptian costume for men included wrap-over kilts or skirts that reached anywhere from the thigh to the ankle.

4. Ancient Egyptian costume sometimes included a shirt, or tunic, that reached to the knees for men, and the ankles for women.

5. Ancient Egyptian costume for women included straight, full-length dresses with one or two straps.

6. Ancient Egyptian men and women both wore jewellery and make up.

7. Ancient Egyptian hairstyles important - used conditioners to protect it from the sun and setting lotion to hold the style in place.

8. Ancient Egyptians dyed their hair and wore wigs.

9. Ancient Egyptian children often had shaved heads, with just a single lock of hair left.

10. Ancient Egyptian food included bread and beer made at home, which was the basic diet.

11. Ancient Egyptian diet sometimes included dates and honey - these were sometimes added to make sweet cake.

12. Ancient Egyptian diet also included fresh fruit, salad, vegetables and meat.

13. Rich Ancient Egyptians ate a variety of meat.

14. Poor Ancient Egyptians relied on what they could catch such as, fish, rabbits and birds.

15. Ancient Egypitan houses were simply furnished, the rich had beds, but most people slept on a mud bench covered with mats.

16. Ancient Egyptian pillow were crescent-shaped headrests made of ivory, pottery and wood.

17. Ancient Egyptian chairs rare, but three-legged stools were more common.

18. Ancient Egyptian clothes and bedding were kept in wooden chests.

19. Ancient Egyptian writing used script called hieroglyphics.

20. Hieroglyphics made up of pictorial signs and symbols called hieroglyphs.

21. Hieroglyphics can be written from left to right, right to left or top to bottom, you have to start from the end the figures are facing.

22. Ccribes had to learn more than 700 signs and attended school for years, practising their writing on stones, or broken pieces of clay.