What does an ancient Egyptian home look like?

Answer 1

Most Ancient Egyptians would live in small houses made out of mudbrick, with wooden beams holding up the flat mud roof. In hot weather to Ancient Egyptians would sleep on their roof to call down. The whole family lived in one room, the room was dark and there was hardly any room. Ancient Egyptians didn't have much furniture either. There was woven mats made of straw and carpets made of dirt or clay floor. Sometimes there was a small wooden stool, or a wooden bed with string pulled across it. In front of the room there was a courtyard. The courtyard had a high wall around it. In the courtyard people cooked food over clay braziers, ate dinner, spun flax into linen (Used for the clothing) and did many other things. People's chickens and goat's also lived in the courtyard. Egyptians houses didn't have bathrooms, they had to go to the edge of the village if they had to go to the toilet. Sometimes they would use a chamber pot inside their house and emptied it outside. Sometimes they had their house in the corner of the courtyard. When they needed water people sent the children to the village and the children would get buckets of water for cooking, drinking and baths. Sometimes two families would have to live in a tiny house together that is just big enough for one family.

Answer 2

• There are no forests in Egypt so wood is scarce and is not used for house building.

• The earliest inhabitants of Egypt lived in huts made from papyrus reeds.

• However, it was soon discovered that the mud left behind after the annual flooding of the Nile (inundation) could be made into bricks which could be used for building. Bricks were made by mixing mud and straw and leaving them to dry in the sun.

• Although mud brick houses were relatively cheap to make, they were not very strong and began to crumble after a few years.

• The houses of the richest people were stronger because they could afford to build their home from stone.

• Most houses had at least three rooms and all houses had flat roofs which formed part of the living area.

• The farmhouse has two floors. The upper floor is used for living space while the lower floor is used to store crops. A reed canopy has been made on the roof to provide shade.

• Windows and doors were covered with reed mats to keep out dust, flies and heat.

Answer 3

Excavations at the worker's village at Deir el Medina have provided valuable insights into the housing and lifestyle of tomb workers. The village comprised about 70 tightly-packed houses arranged along two streets within a surrounding wall.

Each house had a single floor, built at first of mud brick without foundations. As each house was later re-built it was given a foundation of rubble from the earlier houses and stone lower walls with mud brick superstructures.

The houses were long and narrow, about 5.5 meters wide and 4 meters tall. Outside walls were whitewashed and all doors were painted red; floors were always of compacted earth.

A typical house has a reception room off the street, a second reception room behind it, a smaller room behind that serving as a bedchamber and a kitchen room at the rear. A stair led up to the flat roof which was used for storage and sometimes as extra sleeping space. One or more cellars stored food or grain.

In the second reception room there was a shrine and niche for protective family gods and amulets.

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Answer 4

In Ancient Egypt The houses were made out of Mud Brick.

Answer 5

An ancient Egyptian house looks like a little hut on the outside.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Ancient Egyptian homes had two to three rooms and the roof was used for sleeping on.

Answer 8

Mud bricks