Egypt's Culture
Natalia L, Gregory K, and Sabina T
Culture in Egypt
Gallery of Egypt's Culture
Tombs
The Great Pyramid
Flag
An Ancient Mummy
The Great Pyramids
Egyptian Pharaoh Mask
Clothing in Egypt
Ancient Eygpt's Sports
Food
Egypt's Religion Controlled and Determined Most of Daily Life Activities
The Egyptians’ every day lives were filled with hard work and little appreciation. Some parts of their daily agenda was:
They worshipped the gods and worked for the pharaohs by decorating the walls of the temples, decorating the tombs for the pharaohs, working at temples during flood season, gathering crops and offering food and drinks to the gods as thanks, and priests would go worship the pharaohs for about a month.
Noble women were in charge of temples and religious rites. They also used their position to influence the pharaoh, and acted as regents to the pharaoh until he could rule on his own.
The Egyptians also had their own religion and beliefs. Some examples are:
Boys of the higher classes were taught hieroglyphs, and spent years learning them all. All children of the upper class were provided much play time. Kids in the lower class had much work to do, and would have to be taught by their parents whatever they wanted to learn, since they didn’t go to school.
The people were polytheistic, which means they believed in many gods, such as Amon (king of gods), and Re (sun god), which were combined to make Amon-Re. There was also Osiris (god of the dead), Isis (the mother goddess), Horus (god of the sky), Thoth (god of knowledge), Anubis (Osiris’ helper), Sobek (water god), and Nūt (sky goddess).
- They also looked forward to death, because they believed in the afterlife, where they would live their lives once again in another world, a better world. When someone died, they mummified the dead bodies, using mummification. They felt that in the afterlife, their souls would like to have their bodies too, so the wrapping kept their bodies from decaying. They then buried them in a tomb with many objects that person cherished, or things that person might need in the afterlife. They also had this book called The Book of The Dead, that was a series of written spells they believed would help them in the afterlife.