Daily Life in Ancient Egypt: Bread and Beer, Scribes and the Pyramid Builders | History for Sleep

Fall asleep in ancient Egypt. Tonight we wander through everyday life beside the Nile: the yearly flood and the three seasons, a farmer's year, houses of mud brick, bread and beer, linen, wigs and kohl, children and their games, the scribe's school, markets without coins, the tomb-builders' village of Deir el-Medina, the workers who built the pyramids, temples and priests, the household gods Bes and Taweret, doctors and medicine, festival days, preparing for the afterlife, and finally a quiet night on the Nile. Calm, slow narration for sleep, insomnia, relaxing, or studying. After the story ends, about 40 minutes of soft ambient sound continue, so nothing wakes you. Chapters 0:00 Welcome 0:39 The Gift of the Nile 6:53 A Farmer's Year 13:02 A House of Mud Brick 19:04 Bread and Beer 25:12 Linen, Wigs and Kohl 31:31 Children and Games 37:41 The Scribe's School 43:52 Markets and Barter 49:55 The Village of Deir el-Medina 56:21 Building the Pyramids 1:02:49 Temples and Priests 1:09:11 Gods at Home 1:15:46 Doctors and Medicine 1:22:16 Festival Days 1:28:20 Preparing for Forever 1:35:10 Night on the Nile 1:41:37 Ambient only, no narration About Moonscroll History Gentle, boring history to fall asleep to. Facts are based on well-established history; where historians disagree, the story says so. Subscribe so the next sleep story is easy to find tonight. Narration is synthetic voice. Artwork: public-domain and CC0 images via Wikimedia Commons, including tomb paintings of Sennedjem and Nebamun (Metropolitan Museum of Art facsimiles and originals) and paintings by David Roberts, Frederick Goodall and Henry A. Bacon. #historyforsleep #boringhistoryforsleep #sleepstory #ancientegypt #egypt #moonscrollhistory