Housing

Matt

Second Period

Sept. 9, 2009

Where did people live?

• Most of the people lived in the Nile Valley
To see this picture on
• Poorer people lived very close together its original site visit:
• Poorer people were crammed in between the richer people’s houses.
http://www.ancientegypt.co.u
• The Royal Families lived in different towns in the Nile Valley k/life/home.htmll
• The towns they lived in were centers of trade and business

What are their houses made of?

• The houses were made of bricks made from the Nile mud.
• The houses were made so they would be facing north so
the wind would enter the house
• The kept out the hotness of the day
• To make them, workers molded the mud in molds and left
them to dry from the heat of the sun.
• Poorer people's houses were only made from
mud bricks, while richer people's houses had
plaster and paint.

Whose furniture is this?

• There was a big difference in the size of houses and furniture
between the richer and poorer people.
• Poorer Egyptians lived in houses that were very plain
• Those houses had a couple tiny rooms with tall windows and ceiling that
weren't too high. To see this picture
• Had no furniture except a couple tables and a bed. on its original site go
• Richer people had big and elaborate houses. to:
http://www.ancientegypt.co.
uk/life/home.html
How do you make a house?
Hart, George. Ancient Egypt. First Edition. New York, New York: Dorling
Kindersly Publishing, Inc, 2000. Print

• Mud is taken from Nile River.

• Mix straw and pebbles to increase strength.
• Fill up molds with strengthened mud.
• Let dry.
• When the house is assembled, the cover the house with plaster and
sometimes the inside would be painted.

Sources:
Hart, George. Ancient Egypt. First Edition. New York, New York: Dorling
Kindersly Publishing, Inc, 2000. Print.
“Egyptian Life” The British Museum Ancient Egypt. The British Museum, 1999. September 8, 2009.