What did the Ancient Egyptions eat?

Answer 1

Pickled Fish , i heard that in the T.V. from an Encyclopedias.

Answer 2

The scene from Braveheart was a depiction of a man being drawn and quartered. That is a horrific torture but there are some that are worse in my opinion. The Chinese had a torture called "Death by a thousand cuts" they would make small cuts all over your body until, after a long time and a lot of suffering, you died. American Indian cultures, especially the Iroquoi and Algonquians, inflicted some of the worse torture I have ever read about. Captives in war would be ritually subjected to running gauntlets repeatedly and then being slowly burned at the stake. If you proved your bravery by not screaming they would cut out your heart and eat it. Another torture they practiced was to tie a captive up to a pole and then scrape their skin off with oyster shells until the captive died from shock. Any book on Algonquian Indians should give you a more detailed account. The Spanish Inquisition is also a treasure trove of torture techniques. Medieval Europe employed gruesome torture techniques as well. "Turning the Screws" was when a captive was strapped to a chair and screws were slowly turned underneath their fingernails. Impaling someone on a pole. If you were particularly despised the pole's tip would be dulled so that you would be impaled slower. The Iron Maiden is a classic too. Whatever you can imagine has already been done. Personally the worst torture has got to be Michael Bolton!

Answer 3

Lamb, fish, fowl, some beef, pig, goat,
wheat, grain, oats, barley, eggs
corn, and lots of olives, figs, dates, lemons, grapes
many different spices, sage, yeast, they had a bread like a cracker, and the Hebrews put eggs in the bread with milk and made the bread fluffy, this was a delicacy to the Pharaoh. Today they still sell this bread it is called egg bread or cholly.
Goats milk, wine made from grapes

Answer 4

The first farmed crop in the Nile Valley was figs. After that there was barley, wheat or emer, and pomegranates. For meat they started hunting ostriches, but soon started raising beef, goats, camels, and water fowl. Good fishermen who weren't above eating the crocs that would eat them.

Egyptian bread was heavier than what we are used to and practically a meal in itself. It had nuts and fruit baked into it.

Egyptian beer was a staple. At one point workers on one of the pyramids went on strike because their beer rations had been cut. They required a very specific ration every day of beer, bread, and makeup.

By the way, the Egyptians used kohl (the black eye-liner) like sunglasses. It cut the glare of the sun. Every Egyptian, rich and poor, used moisturizers to protect their skin.

Answer 5

I don't know of types of food other than alot of bread and grains...but an interesting fact was that sand got in their food so bad that egyptians teeth wore out so fast from eating food with sand in it that some had 3 or even 4 sets of teeth grow in their lifetime. Pretty interesting huh?

Answer 6

Besides wheat, and fish, I did read somewhere that onions were so plentiful that they were a staple of the Ancient Egyptian diet.

Me, I'll stick with yeast-risen breads for a staple.

Answer 7

As far as I've heard so far, from watching various documentaries, etc., they ate many things natural to their area at the time. Indigenous fruits like dates and figs. They had grains as we do, but they were eaten in the whole grain state, not over-processed as ours can be today. Indigenous vegetables like lentils, chick peas, different bean varieties existed in their day. They consumed the full array of sea foods natural to the Nile. There were some varieties of fish that no longer survive. They ate much as we do, from land, sea and air, of fish, fowl and animals, like lamb, rabbit, pig and a wide assortment of animal innards like brain, intestines, etc. They had melons, papayas, kumquats, grapes. Not a lot different from the middle Eastern diet of today with slight variation in preparation methods. They made forms of bread from their grains, much like Middle Eastern products today. Nuts were present in their day as well. Almonds, especially. Not a great diversion from the foods that exist in Egypt today. Couscous was a staple as it still is in their culture today. Nothing wierd in the grand scheme of themes. Cats were sacred to them, so of course, there was no such meal as cooked cat, which perhaps, an Asian population might consider as edible. But other than that, pretty standard healthy fare. Greater emphasis on grains as a whole, and that's all I've learned about their eating preferences. Sort of ordinary!

Answer 8

Breads, cereals, corn. The Nile Valley was once very fertile soil. They had a very agricultural based diet.

Answer 9

What ever they could hunt up they were lucky they didn't have a Micky D's around the corner to fatten them up like we do. man I'm getting hungry now time for a fast food run w/ a side of Krispy Kreme on the side WOW I can feel my butt getting bigger as I type!!!!

Answer 10

There's a McDonalds near the Great Pyramids at Giza. I guess they all went there.