a) Daily life and leisure activities

A wall painting from the 18th dynasty tomb of Inherkha is perhaps one of the best illustrations of Egyptian everyday life in the New Kingdom. The painting is of a family group. The scene shows naked children playing with birds, with the long ‘sidelock of youth’ hanging from their partly shaved heads. The children are being supervised by what looks to be their mothers. This scene tells us that the daily lives of the people were somewhat family orientated, at least between mother and child, while the older males worked or participated in leisure activities, such as in a relief f

Ancient Egypt was known as a land of abundance, and Kings sometimes boasted of god harvests during their reigns. In an inscription at the temple of Abu Simbel, Ramses II put the following words into the mouth of the god Ptah “I give to you (Ramses II) constant harvests … the sheaves are like sand, the granaries approach heaven, and the grain heaps are like mountains.”

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