How Did Ancient Egyptians Keep Kids Alive? | Ancient Egypt

How Did Ancient Egyptians Keep Kids Alive? | Ancient Egypt In this video, we go inside the actual mechanics of keeping a child alive in ancient Egypt: three years of breastfeeding functioning as the country's only real food-safety programme, the dwarf god Bes and the hippo goddess Taweret standing guard over the bed, hippopotamus-tusk wands dragged in a protective circle around sleeping mothers and newborns, a papyrus of spells where a parent argues out loud with the illness itself, the Horus-and-Isis myth that turned a sick child's treatment into ritual precedent, and what the bones at Amarna reveal about the most dangerous moment in an Egyptian childhood — which wasn't birth. We also get into the harder chapter the record leaves out: the North Tombs Cemetery, and what it suggests about children and labor in Akhenaten's city. 💬 The full Egyptian kit — three years of milk, the wand at the door, the god on the bed, someone awake all night — or one course of modern antibiotics and nobody in the room. Which do you take? Let us know in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe for more of the parts of ancient Egypt that never make it into the textbooks. And check out our illustrated book on daily life in ancient Egypt — link in the description. #AncientEgypt #EgyptianHistory #History #AncientHistory #DeirElMedina #Egyptology #HistoryDocumentary