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What Did Wealthy Egyptians Eat?

What Did Wealthy Egyptians Eat?
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  • What Did Wealthy Egyptians Eat?
  • Duration: 1:09
  • A servant woman describes how she and the other servants do all the work for the nobles. These nobles always want the best provisions for their parties. The job she hates the most is cleaning their houses. She hopes to be buried with her own shabti so that she doesn't have to work in the afterlife. This clip has subtitles available in Flash.
  • Subject:

    History

       Topic:

    Egyptians

  • Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, food, party, Drink, servant, cleaning, shabti, afterlife, subtitled
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  • Discuss what the Egyptians ate. Did the nobles eat different food from ordinary people?
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  • Clip language : English
  • Aspect ratio : 16x9
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