This is an original painting on art board depicting an ancient Egyptian city with pyramids in the background. The artwork showcases a landscape of the Nile River with camels, reflecting scenes of ancient Egypt. The medium used is gouache painting, with a style reminiscent of Egyptian art and illustration. Measuring 14 inches in height and 21 inches in width, this piece captures elements of nature, architecture, history, and farming in a unique artistic interpretation of ancient Egyptian life.

Ancient Egyptians lived in Egypt from 5000 BCE to about 300 CE.

They lived mostly along the Nile River, because it was the primary source of water for drinking and growing crops. The rest of the countries are generally a desert, quite dry and sandy and rocky.

Most of the people were farmers and their chief crops were wheat and barley. They also had orchards and vineyards for growing grapes, figs, dates, nuts and olives. Farmers also grew vegetables and watermelon.

In the spring of each year, the Nile would reliably flood and spread out as much as one mile wide. It would recede and leave fertile mud/soil behind. The farmers would then prepare the soil with a plow pulled by two men or two cattle.

Next they would go through the field with a mattock, a pick-ax like tool, to break up the large clumps of soil. After the soil was prepared, women would scatter seed in the furrows by hand from wicker baskets. A herd of sheep would then walk over the field to bury the seed.

The fields were irrigated after planting by using ditches and canals, sometimes putting water into a canal by hand, one bucketfull at a time. They also weeded and worked to protect the crops from birds and rats.

After three months they would harvest the grain, sometimes using a sickle, a hand tool with a curved blade. The plant stems were used as straw for the livestock.