thatlittleegyptologist:

the-mightiest-queen:

thatlittleegyptologist:

thatlittleegyptologist:

thatlittleegyptologist:

The answer is yes; yes they did.

Casual reminder that Akhenaten is a dick

Bringing this back to remind everyone that we don’t stan Akhenaten in this house.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought most people back then didn’t expect to live past their early 20’s. They were all children; even the pharaohs when they took charge. It’s Lord of the Flies: Egypt Edition.

No, that’s a common misconception. 

Most people in Egypt would live well into their 30s, 40s, 50s and beyond, it’s just that there was a higher chance of them not getting as old as we do because they’ve not got the same medical care. Ramesses II died in his 90s. Most of Ramesses II’s children were in their 60s and 70s when they came to power. You see tombs of common folk who died in their 40s from cancer, or mummies of 50 year olds who died of an infection after a fall. Hatshepsut died from skin cancer aged 50, her successor died at 56. We’ve got tomb biographies and wisdom texts that talk about going grey and getting wrinkles, and medical texts that have ‘cures’ for greying hair and wrinkles. If they’re only living to around 25 then they’re not going to need those, yet they exist for a reason.