
Homes of the Living in Ancient Egypt
By Thais Rocha da Silva, Research Fellow at the University of São Paulo and Harris Manchester College (University of Oxford) and archaeologist of the Amarna Project. When talking about Egypt, it is inevitable to think about mummies and pyramids. It seems that everything that comes to us from this civilization refers only to the world of the dead, as if Egypt were a great graveyard. But what was the Egypt of the “living” like, their homes and cities? The "dead" Egypt excludes