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Egyptian builders were very good when it came to making houses, though they needed a bit of help. Houses were made with sun dried bricks. Egyptian builders would pay peasants to make these bricks. They would make bricks by taking mud from the Nile River. The mud was then mixed with more water and straw. When they added the water to the mud it became easier to mix. They mixed the mud by having people repeatedly step in it, until the straw blended with the mud. The mud was then put into a square type of mold. It was then left in the hot sun to start drying. As the water evaporated, the bricks turned hard and square shaped. The Egyptians took the molds off to finish drying. When this was all done the bricks were rock hard and very, very strong. They were eventually carted to the building sites. Egyptians could make large sized houses, though not a lot of
Egyptians could Most Egyptians lived in villages by the Nile River. Egyptians lived by the Nile because there was water for crops and themselves. Villages had houses that were built close together for strength and also for security. |
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afford to have these big homes built.
So, though the builders
would get bored, they would make smaller houses. The houses weren’t tiny, but
they weren’t huge either. They were usually in a square shape, with flat
roofs. There were sometimes seats on top so the people living there could sit on
the roof and enjoy the evening air. Rooms of the houses were small and dark,
with narrow windows, and low ceilings. Some houses had two stories to them,
others only had one. Lots of houses had cellars dug into the ground to store
stuff like crops.