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Clothing for men.
The men wore short warp around skirts that sometimes pleated or gathered in the front. These were called Shendyt's. As time went on , men's clothing changed to longer skirts, light tunics or blouses with sleeves as well as pleated petticoat's.
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Clothing for women.
During the Old, Middle and New kingdom, ancient Egyptian woman often wore simple sheath dresses called kalasiris. These dresses could be worn in many different ways. The dresses were held up by one or two straps and were worn down to the ankle. Social class was denoted by the length the dress was worn. Beading, feathers, shawls, capes, or robes embellished these dresses. Female clothes only changed slightly through the millennia. Most of these dresses were made of haik a very fine muslin.
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Clothing for children.
Children wore no clothing for the first six years of their life. Once they turned six they were allowed to wear clothing to protect them from the dry heat. Even though they usually wore no clothing, they wore jewelry such as anklets, bracelets, collars and hair accessories. As they grew up, they wore the same styles as their parents.
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Depictions of banquets can be found in paintings from both the Old Kingdom and New Kingdom. They usually started sometime in the afternoon. Men and women were separated unless they were married. Seating varied according to social status, with those of the highest status sitting on chairs, those slightly lower sat on stools and those lowest in rank sat on the bare floor. Before the food was served, basins were provided along with perfumes and cones of scented fat were lit to spread pleasant smells or to repel insects, depending on the type.
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Egyptian bread was made almost exclusively from emmer wheat, which was more difficult to turn into flour than most other varieties of wheat. The chaff does not come off through threshing, but comes in spikelets that needed to be removed by moistening and pounding with a pestle to avoid crushing the grains inside. It was then dried in the sun, winnowed and sieved and finally milled on a saddle quern, which functioned by moving the grindstone back and forth, rather than with a rotating motion.
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Vegetables were eaten as a complement to the ubiquitous beer and bread, and the most common were long-shooted green scallions and garlic and both also had medical uses. There was also lettuce, celery (eaten raw or used to flavor stews), certain types of cucumber and, perhaps, some types of Old World gourds and even melons. By Greco-Roman times there were turnips, but it is not certain if they were available before that period. Various tubers of sedges, including papyrus were eaten raw, boiled, roasted or ground into flour and were rich in nutrients
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Meat came from domesticated animals, game and poultry. This possibly included partridge, quail, pigeon, ducks and geese. The chicken most likely arrived around the 5th to 4th century BC, though no chicken bones have actually been found dating from before the Greco-Roman period. The most important animals were cattle, sheep, goats and pigs.
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The people of ancient Egypt highly valued family life. They treasured children and regarded them as a great blessing. In the lower class families, the mother raised the children. The wealthy and nobility, had slaves and servants that helped take care of the children by attending to their daily needs. If a couple had no children, they would pray to the gods and goddesses for help. They would also place letters at the tombs of dead relatives asking them to use their influence with the gods. Magic was also used as an attempt to have children. In event that a couple still could not conceive a child, adoption was also an option.
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The Egyptians lived in houses made of bricks. The bricks were made of mud and chopped straw. They mixed the mud and straw and then poured the mixture into molds. The molds were placed in the sun to bake into hard bricks.
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