Meat

Meat is one of the good food sources for the body as it serves a large amount of energy and nutrients. Therefore, it is not surprising to find it as one of the most famous Ancient Egyptian kinds of food. Although it is not strongly supported by the evidence found in the remnants. Murals and tombs that make a bold claim that the people of ancient Egypt enjoyed eating meat are also widely believed by archaeologists. Fish and poultry products were considered to have a regular presence on the table of the Egyptians in ancient times. Their meat consumption comes from various sources such as hunting. They also get meat from domesticated and domesticated animals. However, for the cattlemen, only the wealthy men could enjoy the occasional finesse. The regular and poorer classes mainly have poultry products from ducks and geese.

Beef is generally expensive and at most will be sold once or twice a week, and then mostly for sale to the royal family. The poor preferred poultry such as geese, ducks, quails, and cranes, which changed when domestication began in the New Kingdom. Most of the edible fish from the Nile were consumed, with the exception of those related to the Egyptian god Osiris. The meat can be eaten fresh after being stewed, thinly sliced and air-dried, or salted. Sheep and goats are also eaten but in smaller quantities. It is often wrongly said that the Egyptians did not eat pork, mainly based on the words of the Greek historian Herodotus and the fact that pigs rarely appear in Egyptian art. Archaeological evidence shows no truth to this. Pork bones with butcher marks on them are commonly found at settlement sites and there is even a mummy whose stomach contains tapeworms, which can only be eaten by pork. The many exotic types of meat the Egyptians consumed included Gazelle, Hyena, and even rats, something the ancient Romans also indulged in.