Ancient Egypt's Children
HEN the Ancient Egyptian children were older, they were looked after by "father nurses" who taught them lessons and all kinds of sport. They played marbles and lots of ball games. The boys liked to run about and to wrestle, and to play whatever was the ancient Egyptian equivalent of Cowboys
and Indians. When they were old enough they would go hunting and fishing. They would shoot ducks and geese with their bows and arrows, or sometimes use a kind of boomerang. And on these hunting trips they often took, not dogs, but trained cats! Cats were greatly honoured in parts of Egypt and were considered sacred. So they were frequently kept as pets. as were
tame birds; and the boys liked to keep beetles and grasshoppers, too!-(" Children Through the Ages," 2YA, March 26.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 96, 24 April 1941, Page 5
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138Ancient Egypt's Children New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 96, 24 April 1941, Page 5
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