tools – The Boat Children (Out of Egypt)

Magical Birth Bricks

June 11, 2023

Looking into how Ancient Egyptians gave birth, I wasn’t expecting to run into magical birth bricks. But here we are….

June 6, 2023

Reeds are a fairly generic type of plants. Tall, grasslike, grown in wetlands. They are found in a variety of…

May 23, 2023

We know a lot about making Egyptian pyramids and palaces, and a bit about where skilled workers lived, but what…

February 7, 2023

I talk about cooking in How to Eat in Pharaoh Days, but this post is about the fuel. No electricity,…

January 7, 2023

Wagons & Carts In addition to using the Nile and its distributaries for transportation over water, the Egyptians created packed…

January 3, 2023

I did boatloads (pun intended) of research while writing the first draft of the novel but here and there I…

January 2, 2023

Despite their clothing being rather straightforward (mostly lengths of undyed linen tied in various ways or sewn into simple shapes),…

December 31, 2022

So what sort of lighting did folks use in Egypt during the New Kingdom? Oddly, most sources say there are…