How to Make a Hut
We know a lot about making Egyptian pyramids and palaces, and a bit about where skilled workers lived, but what…
Continue Reading →We know a lot about making Egyptian pyramids and palaces, and a bit about where skilled workers lived, but what…
Continue Reading →What languages might the participants of the Exodus spoken and written? This is really a fantasy question because, to answer…
Continue Reading →The background calculations for this post comes from The Rhythms of Bread. In my New Kingdom Egyptian village kitchen, for…
Continue Reading →The bread of Ancient Egypt isn’t easy to figure out. Though there are models and illustrations of bakeries from that…
Continue Reading →Ovens and stoves. The heart (and hearth) of any kitchen, ancient or modern. Ovens were small and brick or clay…
Continue Reading →I talk about cooking in How to Eat in Pharaoh Days, but this post is about the fuel. No electricity,…
Continue Reading →I discussed a fair bit of metalwork in Ancient Egypt in the post Goldwork for the Golden Calf. In this…
Continue Reading →Wagons & Carts In addition to using the Nile and its distributaries for transportation over water, the Egyptians created packed…
Continue Reading →I did boatloads (pun intended) of research while writing the first draft of the novel but here and there I…
Continue Reading →Despite their clothing being rather straightforward (mostly lengths of undyed linen tied in various ways or sewn into simple shapes),…
Continue Reading →Now soap is something I know well, being a soapmaker when I’m not a writer. But using a digital scale…
Continue Reading →So what sort of lighting did folks use in Egypt during the New Kingdom? Oddly, most sources say there are…
Continue Reading →Written Dec 29, 2022Last updated Dec 29, 2022 What are the steps to writing a novel and why the heck…
Continue Reading →The story of the Golden Calf is an odd one, in large part because it’s not clear it ever belonged…
Continue Reading →Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought such great sin upon them?”…
Continue Reading →After the Revelation and the sacrifices for the reading of the Covenant, Moses heads up Mount Sinai. For some commentators,…
Continue Reading →Breadmaking is a pretty straightforward thing to learn. There are countless books, classes, blogs, articles, and friends and family eager…
Continue Reading →Once you have dehulled grain, the next step is to grind it. In Ancient Egypt, this would be done by…
Continue Reading →Before he dies, Jacob blesses each of his sons. In the blessing for Joseph, we have some unusual language. The…
Continue Reading →Emmer is an old variety of wheat (and a Farro grain) grown extensively in the ancient world, including by Ancient…
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