Children of the Pharaohs: Growing Up in Ancient Egypt
<p>What was it like to grow up in Ancient Egypt? Did the Ancient Egyptians have familial bonds like our own…or was ancient life vastly different for a child?</p>
<p>In “<a href="https://www.girlmuseum.org/cleopatra-as-a-child-the-real-story/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Cleopatra as a Child: The Real Story</a>,” I explored the life of Egypt’s last pharaoh — albeit, she was really a Greco-Egyptian pharaoh given her Ptolemaic heritage. Cleopatra’s childhood “was filled with love: Egyptian culture valued children, with mothers looking after them constantly into young childhood. Cleopatra likely had a nurse, when her royal parents were serving in official capacities, but she would have had a lot of contact with her parents.”</p>
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