Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
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- 9.3 Government Officials
- 9.4 Priests
- 9.5 Scribes
- Government officials lived in large, fancy mansions with servants to wait on them.
- 9.6 Artisans
- The priests cleaned the statue every morning and wore only linen. They shaved their bodies so they wouldn't be considered "unclean" while in the temple.
- 9.7 Peasants
- When people learned to be scribes, they worked from dawn until dusk memorizing hieroglyphs and other types of writing.
- Artisans usually lived 10 yard long rectangular houses with 3 rooms stretched from front to back. One room was for a workroom or for house animals. Another was a living room. The last room was split between a kitchen and a bedroom. Sometimes, people even slept on the roof.
- Peasants could not keep their crops. They could only keep the crops that were left over.
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