Egypt
myrtlebeachonline (Joan Leotta)
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- Analysing Skeletal Remains From Amara West
British Museum (Michaela Binder) Since early July, I’ve been in London, finally getting to analyse the human remains we excavated last season at Amara West. The human skeleton acts as a unique database about a number of different aspects of past human...
- Feature: The Pyramid Workers' Village
AERA Also on You Tube and Heritage Key Interview with Mark Lehner about the excavation and analysis of the Giza pyramid workers' village. It provides an excellent insight into, in particular, the food consumed by the workers, who really seem to have...
- Food Trivia: A Celebration Of Koshari
The Egyptian Corner (Canlı) Nothing to do with ancient Egypt, but a subject close to my heart (or my stomach!). Kushari, often transliterated as kosheri or koshari, (Egyptian Arabic: كشرى; translit: kusharī) is a popular traditional Egyptian national...
- 3200 Year Old Kitchen Discovered
http://tinyurl.com/ffhdm (Prensa Latina) "A discovery by a group of French and Egyptian archeologists Tuesday revealed that Egyptians enjoyed a public cooking service 3,200 years ago. The traces of that ancient civilization were found in the city of Luxor,...
- Mummifying Dinner
This is an article on studies done on meat found preserved in ancient Egyptian upper class burials including the beef ribs above found in the tomb of Yuya and his wife Thuya in the Valley of Kings, tomb KV46.The study deals with a resin call pistacia...
Egypt
Exhibition: Tutankhamun now in Atlanta
myrtlebeachonline (Joan Leotta)
David Silverman, an Egyptologist from the University of Pennsylvania and one of the curators of the King Tut exhibit's national tour, said, "What we can learn from [the tombs] is that they practiced hygiene, used makeup for protection as well as enhancement, and ate a diet high in grains and vegetables."
The poorer classes ate little meat and more grains and vegetables. The Bible tells us that leeks (with folic acid, vitamin C and more) were a staple in ancient Egypt. Meat seems to have been a funeral food.
"There is a scene in a museum in Philadelphia that shows a butcher preparing a leg of beef for a funeral," he said.
Today, many physicians endorse such a diet - low in meat, high in grains and vegetables. Diets such as the Mediterranean diet are widely recommended as a way to remain healthy into a long life.
But didn't the Egyptians die young? Tut's death at 19 is shrouded in mystery, but a high infant mortality rate and a life span of 40 years was normal in ancient Egypt.
It was not their diet that did them in, however. The culprits were diseases found in the water, and the effects of ever-present sand that eroded their teeth and brought about a host of other problems, including pneumonia. Ramses II died suffering from abscesses in his teeth.
See the above page for more.
- Analysing Skeletal Remains From Amara West
British Museum (Michaela Binder) Since early July, I’ve been in London, finally getting to analyse the human remains we excavated last season at Amara West. The human skeleton acts as a unique database about a number of different aspects of past human...
- Feature: The Pyramid Workers' Village
AERA Also on You Tube and Heritage Key Interview with Mark Lehner about the excavation and analysis of the Giza pyramid workers' village. It provides an excellent insight into, in particular, the food consumed by the workers, who really seem to have...
- Food Trivia: A Celebration Of Koshari
The Egyptian Corner (Canlı) Nothing to do with ancient Egypt, but a subject close to my heart (or my stomach!). Kushari, often transliterated as kosheri or koshari, (Egyptian Arabic: كشرى; translit: kusharī) is a popular traditional Egyptian national...
- 3200 Year Old Kitchen Discovered
http://tinyurl.com/ffhdm (Prensa Latina) "A discovery by a group of French and Egyptian archeologists Tuesday revealed that Egyptians enjoyed a public cooking service 3,200 years ago. The traces of that ancient civilization were found in the city of Luxor,...
- Mummifying Dinner
This is an article on studies done on meat found preserved in ancient Egyptian upper class burials including the beef ribs above found in the tomb of Yuya and his wife Thuya in the Valley of Kings, tomb KV46.The study deals with a resin call pistacia...