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3. The Food of Ancient Egypt - A Severe Test of Life and Death!

Well, no matter how painful the process is, now that the clothes have been taken off and the head and body hair have been shaved, what tests await you next?

This one...... You'll also need a pair of sturdy, hard-wearing iron and copper teeth, as well as an equally strong and durable steel gut.

Well? Was the food culture of ancient Egypt so miserable?

Not really, in fact, Egyptians are very good at enjoying life. Thanks to the abundant produce of the Nile Valley, while the Greeks and Romans were still drinking the blood of the Rumao, the Egyptians already had bread, and it was a high-quality dessert bread mixed with butter, honey and spices.

Beer was another staple food of the Egyptians - unlike the modern beer, which produced a lot of bubbles, the beer of the ancient Egyptians was thicker, contained many solids, and was high in nutrients, more like modern porridge (with a little more honey is sweet wine).

In addition to bread and beer, the two basics of the national level, the ancient Egyptians also knew about cakes with dates and honey, and wine as a high-end beverage. In ancient Egypt, the cheapest vegetables were onions and garlic, which were generally much cheaper than bread and were often eaten by slaves, even with onions as their staple food. The freshwater fish fishermen caught from the Nile River was also an important source of protein for Egyptians. As for the price of all kinds of meat, especially beef, it is relatively expensive, and the poor generally cannot afford to eat it.

In addition, at the lavish banquets of the ancient Egyptian aristocracy, you can also see roast whole beef, roast duck, roast goose, roast pigeon, roast pork chops, roast fish, thick soup, mixed vegetables, raisins, dried dates, fruit platter...... Basically, all kinds of basic dishes of Western food in the future can be found in ancient Egypt.

Unfortunately, the ancient Egyptians only knew the dishes, but not the utensils, and the travelers had to eat directly with their fingers, just like the modern Indians. By the time the earliest tableware was brought to the banks of the Nile by the Persians and Greeks, the traditional sense of ancient Egypt was coming to an end.

And even more regrettable, although these meals of the ancient Egyptians are very exquisite and rich in nutrition, because the wind and sand in Egypt are too big, some sand will be more or less dropped into it when cooking, and no matter how you prevent it, you can't get it clean.

Bread, the staple food of the Egyptians, was a major health hazard because of the rough conditions in which it was baked – bread specimens taken from ancient Egyptian tombs show that the bread contained a lot of miscellaneous things, including large amounts of sand, hand-ground fragments used to grind flour, and remnants of warehouses......

Although the Egyptians succeeded in turning bread baking into a craft, creating more than 50 different types of bread - round, square, twisted, animal-shaped...... But there is no way to clean the sand in the bread.

The hard quartz sand abrasively abrased the enamel layer of the Egyptians' teeth, causing tooth decay and then ulceration of the dental nerve. In the strictest cases, it can even induce sepsis and lead to the death of the patient - the famous Pharaoh Ramses II died of pain because of tooth decay.

Not only was the food so unhealthy in the ancient Egyptian world, but it was also problematic with drinking water – as we all know, the Egyptians relied on the Nile River to drink water. The water of the Nile in Upper Egypt is relatively clear and suitable for drinking. But in Lower Egypt in the delta, especially near the mouth of the sea, the river is full of muddy water because the flow of the river has slowed down considerably. Wealthy people living in the Nile Delta region would pour the muddy water into a pond and settle it slowly, and then use the clean water on it, so that they could barely get by. But the poor could not be so particular, so they could only pinch their noses and drink dirty water, and there was no concept of boiling the water before drinking...... As a result, various gastrointestinal parasitic diseases are rampant all year round.

Therefore, with the delicate stomach of modern people, it may be difficult to adapt to the poor diet of ancient Egypt.