A study of babies’ scenes in the ancient Egyptian private tombs

Abstract EN

Tombs scenes reflected how the ancient Egyptians be concerned with their babies.

According to the instruction of Any; the baby should be suckled for about three years to strengthen his immunity; this was to reduce the chances of the mother to be pregnant.

Babies were to grow up with their mothers who superbly concerned with them during this period.’ From the tombs’ scenes; it is obvious how the ancient Egyptians cared about their babies on the contrary to the babies of the foreign women.

Moreover, such scenes reflected the different positions in which the babies appear, and the difference between the babies of the common people, high class, and the babies of the foreigners and the slaves.

Furthermore, these scenes also depict the scenes of deities while nursing the kings.