What was one of the most popular foods in ancient Egypt?
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The main staple in ancient Egypt was grain used to make bread and beer.\nBread and beer were the major parts of most people's diets in ancient Egypt and payment for services was occasionally in bread loaves, and these two items formed part of daily rations for workers.  "A thousand of bread and beer..." is part of the standard offering formula on funerary stelae.\nIn addition to grain-based products, wine was a popular staple, either Egyptian wine or wine imported from the Levant.\nMeat was not a major staple for most people, but was occasionally eaten - cattle, goats, and birds (geese being among the most popular) were used for food.\nFish was also a major part of the diet, larger specimens being caught using spears and smaller being collected in large nets.\nVegetables were also a part of the diet, including lettuce, onions, garlic, etc.
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That's a very good (and sligthly difficult) question! People have been interested in the history of Egypt for a long time, in fact it was all the rage in ancient Greece after Herodotus wrote a sort of travel book on the region in the 5th century BC!\nDespite this, and all the research and archealogy in the region over the years, there's still a lot we don't really know about early Egypt...\n\nPeople were probably beginning to settle down along the Nile as long ago as 6000 BC, and the size of settlements apprently began to grow quite rapidly after around 4000 BC. After about 3500 BC there's evidence of towns with bud-brick buildings and what we now call Egypt seems to have been split loosely into  two smaller kingdoms: Lower Egypt, along the north of the Nile and its delta, and Upper Egypt, along the southern part of the Nile river.\nThe exact details are a bit of a mystery, but around 3100 BC a King from Upper Egypt defeated the King of the Delta and united the country for the first time.\n\nBefore the unification we call the 'Predynastic period' and after this came the 'Early dynastic period', which could be considered the beginning of a single reign of Egypt.\n\nThere were many more dynasties in Egypt, including a period we call 'The Old Kingdom', which is when Egypt's most famous landmarks were built - the pyramids!\n\nIf you want to know more, there's a very good website from the British Museum at http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html
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The Egyptian deities could be many places at once.  They are portrayed as having once lived on earth before eventually ceding their direct rule to a line of human kings.\nTexts like the Am Duat "That Which is in the Underworld" from the New Kingdom, which are part of a larger tradition of religious texts like the Book of the Dead tell of the gods holding court in the underworld.\nHowever, Egyptian temples were also perceived by the Egyptians as houses for the various deities.  Statues were kept in the temples, they were bathed, dressed, had makeup applied to them and were "fed" daily by the priests and taken out on "visits" to other deities or to be paraded during various festivals.\nStatues in a broad sense in ancient Egypt were thought to be able to hold the soul or part of the soul of people and gods in order to receive offerings or to interact in some way with the living world.\nThere also seems to have been a belief that statues of various deities had healing powers as there are accounts of Egyptian deity statues being sent to other Near Eastern kings when those kings fell ill.
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This site may answer all your questions:\nhttp://www.sk4p.net/egypt/gods.shtml
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i always found an intrest an ancient egypt. It always told of the power of the past and opens inpiration to my writing. (i am a writer). They always put things about this in scolastics at the following website.
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Old egyptian hieroglyphics, it's not weird but its not your normal everyday shopping item either
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East or west, Egypt is the best
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i'll make believe i'm drop dead hot...\n\nlike cleopatra...\n\nin Egypt, being served grapes, flirting with emperors and warriors.
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Egypt, as many people of the world refer to the country today, is a derivative of this ancient name.  Even today, people who speak one language often change the spelling of words in  another language because of the difficulty they may have in pronouncing some of the sounds of that foreign language.  Hence, in pronouncing Hwt-ka-Ptah, the Greeks changed this world to Aegyptus (Aigyptos), which they used in their literature as the name of an Egyptian King (perhaps Ramesses, though in a fictional manner), the Nile River and for the country itself.  We find the word used by Homer in his famous "Odyssey.  We believe the Greeks had difficulties with the Egyptian pronunciation of the letter "H" at the beginning and end of Hwt-ka-Ptah.\nHer geography is unique. Covering well over a million square kilometers, Ethiopia is about twice as large as Kenya or Texas, or about five times as large as the United Kingdom. Its magnificent landscape ranges from desert areas to forested highlands. At 4,620 meters, Mount Ras Deshen is Ethiopia's highest peak, and Africa's fourth highest, but twenty mountains rise to more than 4,000 meters. The waters of the Abay River, or Blue Nile, feed Lake Tana and flow into the Nile. Most of the Nile's waters originate in Ethiopia.\n\nEthiopia is generally considered Africa's oldest continuously identifiable nation, though Egypt's written history is older and more complete. Ethiopia is landlocked today. Eritrea (independent since 1993), Djibouti and parts of Somalia, share much of their ancient, medieval and modern histories with Abyssinia, as Ethiopia was formerly known. Yemen is nearby. Across the Red Sea is the mountainous Asir Province of Saudi Arabia. Asir, which lies in Asia, has a rugged topography not unlike that of Ethiopia's uplands, and EthiopiansMap are one of the province's larger ethnic minorities. In times past, Ethiopia bordered Egypt, encompassing parts of what is now Sudan.\n\nEthiopia is home to the lion, leopard and cheetah, but to many other species as well. A short list would include the giraffe, elephant, rhinoceros, bushpig, warthog, and various varieties of ibex (including the rare walia), duiker, antelope, gazelle, zebra, buffalo, monkey, baboon, hyena, jackal and wolf. Some of these creatures exist in larger populations in neighboring Kenya, but Ethiopia probably boasts more wild mammal species than any other country in the world. Many are dwarfed by the ostrich, one of Ethiopia's 800 bird species. Some of these animals are unique to Ethiopia. Ethiopia's plant life is equally diverse.\n\nThe first Ethiopians had names like Lucy Australopithecus Afarensis, Australopithecus Africanus and Homo Habilis. They were the predecessors of homo sapiens, our species. Ethiopia's Great Rift Valley and other regions have yielded finds which indicate that this nation may well be the birthplace of the human race.\n\nThere are two possible origins of the name Ethiopia. Tradition says it derives from the name of Etiopik, descendant of the Biblical Noah. Linguists believe it comes from the Greek expression for "sunburned faces." Abyssinia, another ancient name for this land, probably comes to us from the Arabic habishat, which in this context refers to the country's "mixed" population.\n\nEarly History\n\nThere is no doubt that humans have inhabited Ethiopia since the dawn of recorded history, as indicated in early cave drawings. The more modern Ethiopians are not a single racial or ethnic group, a fact reflected in the diversity of Lioness and cubtheir languages. Despite some twentieth-century European attempts to present them as dark Caucasians, Ethiopians are predominantly Negroid.\n\nSome Ethiopian peoples, such as the Surma, were clearly tribal and semi-nomadic, while others were more reliant on agriculture. It's difficult to generalize about such a complex ethnic mix of peoples.\n\nTop of Page\n\nYet, Ethiopia is the o
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Vegetarian food only. Pythagoras belonged to a cult which was very strict and allowed only vegetarian food.
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http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~ancient/chron.htm\nhttp://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_table_goddesses_egypt.htm\nhttp://chahttp://hypermart.net/fullsize/egyptfs.gif\nhttp://www.teacheroz.com/egypt.htm\nhttp://www.rom.on.ca/egypt/case/about/gods.html
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There were many, many Egyptian gods. Researchers say there were over 2,000 throughout all of Egypt although most of them were lesser gods. The main gods egyptians worshiped were Amun, Anubis, Aten, Atum, Bastet, Bes, Geb, Hapy, Hathor, Horus, Isis, Khepri, Khnum, Ma'at, Nephthys, Nun, Nut, Osiris, Ptah, Ra, Ra-Horakhty, Sekhmet, Seshat, Seth, Shu, Sobek, Tawaret, Tefnut, and Thoth.
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Depends on what kind of pyramid you are looking for:\n\nThe Pyramid at Giza in Egypt http://www.hunkler.com/pyramids/great_pyramid.gif\nor\nhttp://www.melissaapplegate.com/images/buttons/MapKhufu.gif\n\nThe food pyramid:\nhttp://www.fda.gov/diabetes/pyramid.gif
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Try these sites.  They will give you lots of information about Egypt.
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Cotton was a big one.  I imagine sugar too, since that's where it comes from.  Lets not forget tea.  Spices of course.  Precious jewels, art, artifacts, etc.  Workers; Indian laborers were sent all over the commonwealth.
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arabic food!  it's so good
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1) Great Pyramid of Giza 2550 BCE Egyptians\n\n2) Hanging Gardens of Babylon 600 BCE Babylonians\n\n3) Statue of Zeus at Olympia 435 BCE ancient Greeks\n\n4) Temple of Artemis at Ephesus 550 BCE ancient Greeks\n\n5) Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus 351 BCE Hellenized Carians\n\n6) Colossus of Rhodes 292-280 BCE Hellenistic civilization\n\n7) Lighthouse of Alexandria 3rd century BCE Hellenistic civilization