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The Egyptian Museum exhibits many interesting games, toys, drawings, and miniatures of household items. These artifacts give a clear idea of daily life and entertainment in Ancient Egypt. |
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| Entertainment in Ancient Egypt |
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Models of household items, games, toys, and drawings give a clear idea about daily life and entertainment in ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptian royalty and commoners alike played a variety of games and sports, watched dancers, and listened to singers and musicians. |
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| Hunting Equipment and Games of Tutankhamun |
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Egyptians entertained themselves by playing sports and games such as senet. When they went hunting they rode in chariots and used boomerangs, swords, knives, daggers, bows and arrows. |
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| Satirical Drawings |
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Quick sketches and drawings that illustrated joyful, critical, or amusing scenes might have been drawn to create joy and laughter or might have been intended to criticize a political situation. |
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| Household Miniatures |
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These exquisite miniature wooden models of the chancellor Meketre's household were made to serve the deceased in the afterlife. |
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| Miniature Soldiers |
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During the period from the Seventh to Tenth Dynasty, known as the First Intermediate Period, Egypt fell into an era of disorder, civil wars, and famine. |
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