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I know they cooked, but where did they get they clay?

2007-02-27 19:43:26 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel Africa & Middle East Egypt

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well, how about an answer from Herodotus?

"They eat loaves of bread of coarse grain which they call cyllestis. They make their beverage from barley, for they have no vines in their country.They eat fish raw, sun-dried or preserved in salt brine"
Loaves were made for me daily, and wine as daily fare, cooked meat, roast fowl, as well as desert game. For they snared for me and laid it before me, in addition to the catch of my hounds. Many sweets were made for me, and milk dishes of all kinds.

Cooking was done in clay ovens as well as over open fires. Wood was burnt as fuel, and sometimes charcoal, even though it was scarce.

As for the clay, it was made from the rich soil of the river nile. It is a special type of soil that is rich in minerals and used to arrive in big quantities during the annual floods. By carefully heating the mud and adding certain minerals, followed by drying, they were able to make their own utensils.

2007-02-27 20:25:20 · answer #1 · answered by fozio 6 · 0 1

They extracted the Clay from the Nile, and they cooked in copper plates.

2007-03-02 06:46:24 · answer #2 · answered by somebody 3 · 0 0

From the riverbed of the Nile.

2007-02-27 19:47:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

in the beginning they ate the grilled after that they made their pans from pottery and used the wood for their fire

2007-03-03 01:09:48 · answer #4 · answered by Ravioli man 2 · 0 0

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