A study of animal motherhood scenes in the private tombs in ancient Egypt

Abstract EN

Ancient Egyptians reared some animals for nutrition, while others were kept as pets.

They were very important for his life, and he had a daily contact with the animals, so he was clever enough to illustrate the detailis of animals’ life, especially the scenes, which reflect their motherhood like giving birth, suckling, milking cows, and other maternal scenes.

Most of such scenes appeared in the tombs of Saqqara and Giza during Old Kingdom.

While it appeared in a lesser extent during Middle and New Kingdoms in tombs of Beni Hassan, AI Bersha, Meir, A1 moaala, Deir El Bahari, Sheikh Abd_el-Quma and El Kab