“ 400 BCE-1965: Vintage Contraceptives.” Chris Wild,. “ Nine Forms of Birth Control Used in the Ancient World.” Suzanne Raga, Mental Floss, Jul. “ Ground Up Mummies Were Once an Ingredient in Paint.” Rose Eveleth, Smart News,, April 2014. Atlas of Eating: Smithsonian Journeys Travel Quarterly. “ For Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs, Life Was a Banquet, But the Afterlife Was the Greatest Feast of All.” by Salima Ikram. “ Ancient Egyptian Love Poems Reveal a Lust for Life.” Cameron Walker, National Geographic, April 20, 2004. “ A Day in the Life of An Ancient Egyptian Doctor.” Elizabeth Cox, TED Ed, July 2018. “ A Brief History Of The Menstrual Period: How Women Dealt With Their Cycles Throughout The Ages” by Lecia Bushak, , May 2016. “ 10 Amazing Egyptian Inventions.” Jonathan Atteberry & Patrick Kiger,. (If you’re into Ancient Egypt, this podcast is amazing: very thorough, scholarly, and with tons of details that help bring ancient Egypt to life.) The History of Egypt Podcast by Dominic Perry. National Geographic Special Editions, 2015. Women in Ancient Egypt. Barbara Watterson, Amberley Publishing, Feb. When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt. Carolyn Gaves-Brown, Continuum, May 2010. Riddle, Harvard University Press, 1994.ĭancing for Hathor: Women in Ancient Egypt. Stacy Schiff, Virgin Books, 2010.Ĭontraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance. (This was mega helpful as a reference when it came to all the different aspects of Egyptian life: such a great overview of the nitty gritty!)Ĭleopatra: A Life. Let’s go traveling.Īncient Egypt: Everyday Life in the Land of the Nile. Why was Egypt such an exception to the ancient rule? What did these freedoms actually look like in practice, for commoners and queens? What did their lives really look like? Grab a linen sheath, your dangliest gilded earrings, and a whole lotta sunscreen. They ruled as pharaohs and were revered as goddesses. They could own property, get divorced, hold down jobs, demand alimony. They refined geometry, perfected irrigation and ship building, and built pyramids so tall that no architect would match them for thousands of years to come.Īnd then there’s this particular wonder: ancient Egyptian women had more freedom and power than anywhere else in the ancient world. Of all the civilizations in the ancient world, Egypt was perhaps the most prone to the miraculous. “There is no country that possesses so many wonders,” wrote Greek historian Herodotus,“nor any that has such a number of works that defy description.” They invented many wonders: the 365-day calendar, breath mints, paper, the ramp and lever. Let’s start with the civilization I’ve been obsessed with since elementary school, full of incense, gold leaf, and kohl eyeliner. It also means being imaginative: taking what we think we know and filling in the gaps with our own conjecture. To go so far back means relying on primary sources that weren’t always concerned about accuracy. Just remember, as we go on this journey into the faraway past, to take everything with a grain or two of salt. ![]() And because I love a challenge, I want to try and hear their voices through the smoke. But they’re there, if you only look hard enough. We have so few direct quotes from these women. ![]() That glass was mostly made by men: they wrote down the stories of ancient women, defining them through their own lenses and prejudice, turning them into what suited their narrative: saints, seductresses, jokes, cautionary tales. It’s a researcher’s nightmare: dates are never certain, names, places, times, all up for debate.Īnd trying to understand a woman’s life in the ancient world? It’s a little like squinting through very smoky glass. ![]() But when I get handed a book about ancient history, I can’t help but want to hand it back. I work as an editor – that’s my day job – shaping books about adventure, travel, science, and, of course, history. WHAT WAS LIFE LIKE FOR WOMEN OF THE ANCIENT WORLD?
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