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&hellip;or was ancient life vastly different for a child?</p> <p>In &ldquo;<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>,&rdquo; I explored the life of Egypt&rsquo;s last pharaoh &mdash; albeit, she was really a Greco-Egyptian pharaoh given her Ptolemaic heritage. Cleopatra&rsquo;s childhood &ldquo;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.&rdquo;</p> <p><a href="https://historymuse.medium.com/children-of-the-pharaohs-growing-up-in-ancient-egypt-99b9fc86d77e"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>