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?
In “Cleopatra as a Child: The Real Story,” 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.”