Daily life in ancient Egypt

The daily life of the Égyptiens of Antiquity is relatively well-known compared to that of other ancient civilizations. The Egyptian company was very treated on a hierarchical basis and there were great disparities between the life of the peasants, representing the large majority of the Egyptians and alive in a state close to the Servage, and that of the nobility and upper middle classes. It is the life of most privileged which is the best known one because it is it which left the most testimonys.

Sources

Our knowledge of the daily life of the Egyptians comes us mainly from three sources:

the writing: that it is the literature, the administrative documents or the hiéroglyphes themselves by their ideographic form;
the Iconography: omnipresent on the walls of the temples and especially of the tombs or the late one recalls the outstanding elements of its life;
the Archeology: who allows to reconstitute the daily life of the Egyptians (and in particular of most modest) starting from the vestiges of their habitat.

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