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Hunting. Hunting was practiced as a way to gather food and for self-defense against wild animals in ancient Egypt. Once people started domesticating animals and depending on the breeding of animals for food hunting lost its importance as a source of nutrition. As a result of this lesser dependency on hunting for food hunting became a ...
In ancient Egypt, cats were represented in social and religious scenes dating as early as 1980 BC. [ 2 ] Several ancient Egyptian deities were depicted and sculptured with cat-like heads such as Mafdet, Bastet and Sekhmet, representing justice, fertility, and power, respectively. [ 3 ] The deity Mut was also depicted as a cat and in the company ...
Animal mummy. Egyptian mummies of animals in the British Museum. Animal mummification was common in ancient Egypt. Animals were an important part of Egyptian culture, not only in their role as food and pets, but also for religious reasons. Many different types of animals were mummified, typically for four main purposes: to allow people's ...
The cuisine of ancient Egypt covers a span of over three thousand years, but still retained many consistent traits until well into Greco-Roman times. The staples of both poor and wealthy Egyptians were bread and beer, often accompanied by green-shooted onions, other vegetables, and to a lesser extent meat, game and fish.
A cat eating a fish under a chair, a mural in an Egyptian tomb dating to the 15th century BC. It was long thought that the domestication of the cat began in ancient Egypt, where cats were venerated from around 3100 BC.
Oxyrhynchus (/ ɒ k s ɪ ˈ r ɪ ŋ k ə s / ok-sih-RINK-əs; Greek: Ὀξύῤῥυγχος, translit. Oxýrrhynkhos, lit. "sharp-nosed", Koinē Greek: [okˈsyr̥r̥yŋkʰos]; Ancient Egyptian: Pr-mdjd; Coptic: ⲡⲉⲙϫⲉ or ⲡⲙ̅ϫⲏ, romanized: Pemdje), [1] [2] also known by its modern name Al-Bahnasa (Arabic: البهنسا, romanized: el-Bahnasa), is a city in Middle Egypt located ...
Egypt's fishing industry produced 1,337,778 tonnes of fish in 2010. 334,947 tonnes were sold to the home market, while 5,175 tonnes were sold to the domestic market. Fishing revenue is divided into two sub sectors, the aquaculture sector and the capture sector. The aquaculture sector produced 705,500 and the capture sector produced 374,000 ...
April 6, 2008. (2008-04-06) Egypt's Ten Greatest Discoveries is a documentary on the Discovery Channel, written and directed by Ben Mole and hosted by Zahi Hawass, featuring a list of the top ten discoveries of Ancient Egyptian sites and artifacts which are of cultural significance to the country. The list was compiled by Hawass with the ...