Doum palm in ancient Egypt

Abstract EN

Doum-palm is the second kind of palms which have been cultivated in ancient Egypt.

Doum-palm is not less important than date-palm, but there has been an increasing and wide- spreading of date-palm more than doum-palm.

Introduction: Palm-Tree is one of the most important and prominent topics and the evidence of that their descriptions prevails graves especially during the New Kingdom Period.

The views shows trees in public and palms in particular, where represented the palm is an important element and key in gardens' views, which are engraved on the walls of many tombs of private tombs of individuals and nobility and also formed a vital model in the architecture and art as palm style columns prevalent since the Old Kingdom until the end of Ancient Egyptian civilization, it has continued and followed for a long time later.