3. Women's leisure: 3000 years ago

 

" Music, youth and the women
in ancient Egypt "

 

An orchestra ...Three women playing the harp, lute and tambourine.
(Tomb n°100 of Rekhmire, vizir et governor of Thebes in the XVIIIth dynasty.)

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             So much to enjoy                               Silence, please for the music         
 

   

Dancers and flute-players - Paintings from Thebes (New Empire), at the British Museum in London.


The audience wants more?                              YES! Encore! ... encore!!  
 

   

               The Tomb of scribe Nakht - (XVIIIth dynasty)           The Tomb of Pached - (a noble of the Ramses period)


 

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