Egypt
- Now Online: Egyptological Edition 5, April 2012
www.egyptological.com Editorial: Egyptological Magazine Edition 5: http://www.egyptological.com/welcome/editorial Articles: Egyptologically Speaking: An Interview with Joyce Tyldesley (Interview by Barbara O'Neill) Ancient Egyptian Religion, Part...
- New Book: The Pharaohs
The University of Manchester The Pharaohs by Dr Joyce Tyldesley, Quercus History Egypt was the best place to live in the ancient world, according to ‘The Pharaohs’, a new book that gives a full but straightforward and colourful account of life there...
- Exhibition: Meresamun Opens In Chicago This Week
There have been lots of articles about the opening of at The Life of Meresamun at the Oriental Institute Museum in Chicago this week. The following are the best of the bunch from the last couple of days. CBBC Newsround There's an excellent 7-photograph...
- Book Review: Singled Out
The Guardian (review by Lynn Knight) Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War by Virginia Nicholson 312pp, Viking. Virginia Nicholson's Singled Out salutes the intrepid women whose dreams of marriage were destroyed...
- Women In Ancient Egypt
Barbara Watterson Wrens Park Publishing 1998 ISBN 0 905 778 235 Barbara Watterson opens this book with a list of resources that she used in writing her book but also points out that certain types of documents such as temple and wisdom literature are...
Egypt
Book Review: Women in Ancient Egypt
Daily Mail (Review by John Harding)
Women in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Watterson
Women in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Watterson
A woman in Ancient Egypt spent a lot of time with a broom in her hand because it’s a country with a lot of sand. Constant sweeping wasn’t the worst of it, though, because the ubiquity of sand meant she probably had rotten teeth, too.
Not only did sand get into food, but the Egyptians also added a little as an abrasive to help the process of grinding grain for flour to make bread. The grit in the bread cut people’s gums, causing gum disease and eventually tooth decay and loss, so most people had bad or missing teeth.
This is one of the many unexpected details in Barbara Watterson’s survey of Ancient Egyptian women’s lives from contemporary inscriptions and papyrus writings. Teeth apart though, Egyptian women in the 3,000 years leading up to the birth of Christ are revealed to have enjoyed higher status and better lives than many of their counterparts in the ancient world.
- Now Online: Egyptological Edition 5, April 2012
www.egyptological.com Editorial: Egyptological Magazine Edition 5: http://www.egyptological.com/welcome/editorial Articles: Egyptologically Speaking: An Interview with Joyce Tyldesley (Interview by Barbara O'Neill) Ancient Egyptian Religion, Part...
- New Book: The Pharaohs
The University of Manchester The Pharaohs by Dr Joyce Tyldesley, Quercus History Egypt was the best place to live in the ancient world, according to ‘The Pharaohs’, a new book that gives a full but straightforward and colourful account of life there...
- Exhibition: Meresamun Opens In Chicago This Week
There have been lots of articles about the opening of at The Life of Meresamun at the Oriental Institute Museum in Chicago this week. The following are the best of the bunch from the last couple of days. CBBC Newsround There's an excellent 7-photograph...
- Book Review: Singled Out
The Guardian (review by Lynn Knight) Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War by Virginia Nicholson 312pp, Viking. Virginia Nicholson's Singled Out salutes the intrepid women whose dreams of marriage were destroyed...
- Women In Ancient Egypt
Barbara Watterson Wrens Park Publishing 1998 ISBN 0 905 778 235 Barbara Watterson opens this book with a list of resources that she used in writing her book but also points out that certain types of documents such as temple and wisdom literature are...