Ancient Egyptians
HISTORY ASSIGNMENT LEVEL ONE: QUESTION 2 List the main diet for most Egyptian people. How do rich people add to the basic diet? The main food eaten by poorer people was bread, which was cooked in dome shaped ovens, and for breakfast they ate ful beans. The main beverage drunken by poorer was beer. On the other hand richer people ate much finer foods such as figs, grapes, plums, dates, watermelon, vegetables like sweet onions, radishes, turnips, garlic, lettuce, chick peas, beans and lentils. Royalty also ate a variety of meat, fish and fowl like beef, mutton, pork and wild game. QUESTION 6 List the steps involved in the process of mummification. 1) All the internal organs were removed from the dead body, apart from the heart. And were then placed in canoptic jars. The brain was removed through the nose with a metal rod and discarded. 2) The body was packed and covered with natron (a salty drying agent) and was left to dry out for 40 or so days.