Name: Ancient Lives
ISBN: 9780030007330

John Romer

Reconstructs ancient Egyptian way of life through material unearthed at the excavations of a tiny Egyptian village located in a desert outside Thebes.

Daily Life in Egypt of the Pharaohs

Ancient Lives

Dimitris Papastergiou

Really liked this one!

Wanna see how a bunch of villagers lived their day and night in the Valley of the Kings in Ancient Egypt? That's your book then.

Actually, not in the Valley of Kings, but close to?! Because those villagers were basically there to paint and carve on the tombs of the Pharaohs for hundred of years, their homes were near the river Nile and they were getting food and water from the nearby temples of Amun. From priests over there providing for them.

What was interesting was that this community was saving and writing down everything that was happening in the village, about the work, about someone destroying a tomb which makes sense, and about every little thing from someone calling names someone else or robbing a house, which doesn't make much sense. 

There were a lot information, even much more than I expected about their lives with pretty much too many details, that I find kinda surprising, and would like to search further and see how true that is.

Also find out that after this book there's a documentary based on this book, so I'm gonna watch that for sure!

Ancient Lives Daily Life in Egypt of the Pharaohs

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