Pigs in Ancient Egypt
Breeding pigs in Ancient Egypt (Inside the tomb of Kagemni, Saqqara)Pigs were loosely looked upon as black, and thus unfit for foods. The chroniclers present them as used for food at only one festival....
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Picture show the breeding of cattle (cows) in Ancient EgyptMeat of cows (cattle) and goose were more loosely eaten than any other form of animal food. Cows were the great power source apart from human...
View ArticleThe Hunted Animals in Ancient Egypt
Hunted Animals in Ancient Egypt, wild goat (Inside the tomb of Khnumhotep II, Beni Hasan)The animals primarily ran were the gazelle, wild goat, auk, wild oxen, stag, wild sheep, hare, hedgehog and...
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Pigeonhole in Egypt AD 65,according to Pliny and Strabo in his geographyPigeons were likewise very plentiful and were much wished, and many of the wading clan, as for example the ardea, were so highly...
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Breeding geese in Ancient EgyptThe greatest favorite, nevertheless, was the Vulpanser, experienced to us as the "Egyptian goose," which, with some others of the same knees, was caught alive and tamed....
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Eggs production in Ancient Egypt (Tomb of Nebseni, New Kingdom)According to Diodorus, the eggs of Local birds in Egypt were born by the use of artificial heat provided by manure.For the ancient...
View ArticleBirds in Ancient Egypt
Hunting goose (Tomb of Nefermaat I)Throughout of Egypt, especially in lower Egypt, some of the mass of bird-life included the falcon, plover, kite, goose, heron, pigeons, ibis, piranha , crane and owl....
View ArticleFishes in Ancient Egypt
Hunting big kind offish in Ancient Egypt(Inside the tomb ofKagemni, Saqqara)Â River Nile of Egypt was mentioned of the greatest quality of its fish (eaten both fresh and cured or dried), many forms of...
View ArticleLotus Flower in Ancient Egypt
Lotus Flowers in Ancient EgyptThere are 2 types of water lily ordinarily known as the lotus or lotus flush, the white Nymphaea lotus flower and the blue Nymphaea caerulea, grew along the Nile during...
View ArticleCooking Utensils in Ancient Egypt
Culinary Utensils in Ancient Egypt (Types of knives in Ancient Egypt)- From Salima Ikram, Choice Cuts: Meat Production in Ancient Egypt, P.64.In the early maturates, before men had developed the art of...
View ArticleThe Butcher in Ancient Egypt
As totally the meat used was freshly mowed down, the kitchen and the butcher's department represented an active appearance for many hours early to the feast.In butchering, it was customary to take the...
View ArticlePlants and Vegetable in Ancient Egypt
Throughout ancient Egyptian history, a wide variety of foodstuffs were both cultivated and foreign for domestic intake. The quality and teemingness of clear vegetables developed in in tandem with the...
View ArticleDate Palm in Ancient Egypt
Date palm tree (Inside tomb of Pashedu at Deir el Medina)The date palm is too well famous plants to need any general verbal description. Two kinds, however, flied high the wild and the broken. The wild...
View ArticleDoom Palm in Ancient Egypt
The doom palm, as the date palm in ancient Egypt, grows abundantly throughout all upper Egypt. It is a very pretty tree which, dissimilar its date-bearing sister, spreads out into numerous limbs or...
View ArticleSycamore in Ancient Egypt
Sycamore in Ancient EgyptFicus sycomorus is native plants to Africa south of the Sahel and north of the Tropic of Capricorn, also shutting the central-west rainforest areas. It also grows by nature in...
View ArticleMokhayt in Ancient Egypt
The mokhayt is a kind of Egyptian plants grows to the height of about 30 feet, embarking on to branch out at a outstrip of twelve feet from the ground, with a diameter at the base of about 3 feet. Its...
View ArticlePersea in Ancient Egypt
Persea in Ancient EgyptThe persea is a branched tree and one of the favorite foods in ancient Egypt, which under favorable lots reaches an height of 18 or 20 feet. Its bark is of whitish color, its...
View ArticleNebk in Ancient Egypt
Nebk in Ancient EgyptThe nebk or sidr or nabeka is other fruit of the date variety. It was eaten exposed, or the flesh, separated from the stone, was cured in the sun. It delighted the reputation of...
View ArticleOlives in Ancient Egypt
Olives in Ancient EgyptThe olives tree grown were heavy and fleshy, but contained little oil. It was one of the important plants and foods in ancient Egypt.According to Strabo, the west are of Egypt is...
View ArticleVines in Ancient Egypt
Vine painting (Inside the tomb of Nakht, in the valley of the queens)Vines were doubtless much broken, in spite of the assertion of Herodotus to the contrary. The bunches of grapes, when intended for...
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