Meat in Ancient Egypt

The ancient Egyptians consumed all typewrites of meat: mammal, piscian, and avian. It was an important source of protein, but one that was not incessantly equally open to all points of society. While piscian and avian meat origins were readily easy through fishing, hunting, and trapping, mammalian meat was sometimes harder to acquire due to confinements on hunting wild game and the expense of killing stock. Thus, mammalian meat inclined to be more frequently consumed by the wealthy elite, although it would have been taken by other social classes on feasts or at festive affairs.

Oxen
Sheep
Goats
Pigs
Cows
The Hunted Animals
Birds

• Pigeons
• Geese
• Eggs in Ancient Egypt

Fishes