If you’ve heard of the Ancient Egyptians, it’s probably something about the gods, or the pyramids, or Cleopatra. But how often do we think about what it was like to live in the Ancient Egyptian world?

The period we call Ancient Egypt lasted for five thousand years, and all of it was pretty much under one governmental system. We’re talking from the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt in 3,000 BCE all the way to the Roman occupation in the 30s CE. In that time, even if some other religion came along, it all came back to the Pharaonic rule. So how did they do it?

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Resources and Links

• “Ancient Egyptian Magic: A Hands-On Guide” by Christina Riggs (2020). An easy-to-understand book on just how engrained every aspect of magic was in the life of an Ancient Egyptian.
• “An Introduction to the Ancient World” by L. de Blois and R.J. van der Spek (2019). A fantastic textbook on Ancient Egypt if you want to understand the basics and don’t know where to begin.
• Interactive timeline and map of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The green dates are the construction of each wonder, the red their destruction.