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Histories of women usually bring with them histories of women's world and women's work--in other words, the daily life of a culture. This look at ancient Egyptian women is no different. British archaeologist and researcher Tyldesley illuminates women's positions as cooks, washerwomen, dancers, mourners, weavers, priestesses, mothers, wives and--on very rare occasions--pharaohs. Tyldesley doesn't try to simplify a subject complicated by linguistic subtleties, lack of archaeological evidence, ancient propaganda and the orientalist mythology of seething harems that early excavators imposed on ambiguous digs. What she does, and does well, is give an idea of what evidence is available and, in accessible, slyly cheery prose, recreate how women (and men) shopped, dressed and ate (``the menus of the poor and less enterprising usually involved a fairly dull and rather flatulent rotation of bread, onions, lettuce, radish and pulses''). Most intriguing, though, are Tyldesley's all-too-brief initial observations of the standing of Egyptian women. For all its emphasis on tradition, Egypt differed from much of the worst of Graeco-Roman paternalism: women were important factors in a child's heredity, not just passive bearers of men's genetics; they could own property; make legally binding contracts; sue; and, most amazingly, live alone.

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The women of Dynastic Egypt created quite a stir in the ancient world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
scribal advice, dynastic life, dynastic age, medical papyri, tomb scenes, dynastic period, royal harem, private tombs, tomb walls, mortuary temple, royal women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, Old Kingdom, Late Period, Queen Hatchepsut, Queen Nefertiti, God's Wife of Amen, Archaic Period, Field of Reeds, Nile Delta, Dynastic Egypt, King Akhenaten, Miss Blackman, Queen Nitocris, King Ramesses, Queen Tiy, Queen Twosret, River Nile, Ahmose Nefertari, Diodorus Siculus, First Intermediate Period, Valley of the Kings, King Cheops, Queen Meryt-Neith New!
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