Society and Bureaucracy Ancient Egypt Society and Bureaucracy

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Temple of Amun at Karnak Measuring the harvest; Menna's tomb at Luxor (18th Dyn) http://www.bible-history.com/ibh/Egyptian+Temples/Temple+At+Karnak/Air+Photo+of+the+Temple+of+No-Amun+at+Karnak

Stereoscopic view of the Nile during inundation. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3b47170/ http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptagriculture.html Plowing, harvesting, and threshing; painting from the tomb of Nakht, 18th Dyn Plowing and sowing; painting from the burial chamber of Sennedjem, Deir al-Medina, 19th Dyn

Detailed view of some of the houses Section of a typical house Aerial view of Deir el-Medina from the west, with the Nile Valley beyond Detailed view of some of the houses Section of a typical house Wikipedia http://www.deirelmedina.com/lenka/Settlementview.html http://www.ancient-egypt.co.uk/deir%20el%20medina/index.htm

Carpenters and metalworkers in Rekhmire's tomb at Luxor (18th Dyn) Model of a carpentry workshop in painted wood from a tomb at Deir El-Bhari (11th Dyn) Carpenters and metalworkers in Rekhmire's tomb at Luxor (18th Dyn) http://www.maat.sofiatopia.org/studio.htm https://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Africa/Egypt-Luxor-tombs/26743236_bd7S6R/2238381928_DC7RsJV#!i=2238381928&k=DC7RsJV

Making bread and beer, Royal Ontario Museum https://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Africa/Egypt-Luxor-tombs/26743236_bd7S6R/2238381928_DC7RsJV#!i=2238270188&k=rsVHrQ8 Hunting birds and fishing in a papyrus swamp; Menna's tomb at Luxor (18th Dyn) Making bread and beer, Royal Ontario Museum

Potters in Rekhmire’s tomb at Luxor (18th Dyn) Getty Barbers in Userhat’s tomb at Luxor (18th Dyn)

wikipedia Scenes of viticulture from Priest Khaemwaset’s tomb at Luxor (20th Dyn)

Egyptian scribes at work, from the tomb of Mereruka, Saqqara, Egypt (6th Dyn) http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/podcasts/transcripts/dont_laugh_cat.aspx

Measurement of the grain from Menna's tomb at Luxor (18th Dyn) http://www.osirisnet.net/tombes/nobles/menna69/e_menna_05.htm Measurement of the grain from Menna's tomb at Luxor (18th Dyn)

Detailed view of some of the houses Section of a typical house Aerial view of Deir el-Medina from the west, with the Nile Valley beyond Detailed view of some of the houses Section of a typical house Wikipedia http://www.deirelmedina.com/lenka/Settlementview.html http://www.ancient-egypt.co.uk/deir%20el%20medina/index.htm

From Menna's tomb at Luxor (18th Dyn) Presentation of offerings; a farmer and his wife attend the measurement of their land From Menna's tomb at Luxor (18th Dyn) http://www.osirisnet.net/tombes/nobles/menna69/e_menna_05.htm

Spinning and weaving in Khnumhotep’s tomb at Beni Hasan (12th Dyn), 19th-cent copy by Norman de Garis Davies, Metropolitan Museum

Wikipedia http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2164/2527541857_190d125443.jpg Musicians and dancers from Nebamun’s  tomb in Luxor (18th Dyn), British Museum God's Wife of Amun, Amenirdis I, from her tomb at Medinet Habu (25th Dyn)

https://altf1be.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/nain-seneb_887x1157.jpg?w=887 Dwarf Seneb, his wife, son and daughter, from the Giza necropolis (4th Dyn), Egyptian Museum

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