Birds in Ancient Egypt

Hunting goose
(Tomb of Nefermaat I)

Throughout of Egypt, especially in lower Egypt, some of the mass of bird-life included the falcon, plover, kite, goose, heron, pigeons, ibis, piranha , crane and owl. It is potential that chickens were entered during the New Kingdom from and across Africa.

The Egyptian Goddess Nephthys as a kite from the tomb of Queen Nefertari, discover the detail! Sacred to Horus, the falcon, or hawk, was thinking to be the defender of the ruler, and is frequently found as spread its wings protectively behind the head of the pharaoh. At Saqqara during the Late Period, on that point was a catacomb shape for mummified falcons. These birds, though, were shown to be of several characters of birds of prey, not just the falcon. To the Egyptians, the Horus-falcon white thorn have been considered as even with a whole range of distinct birds of prey.

• Pigeons in Ancient Egypt
• Geese in Ancient Egypt
• Eggs in Ancient Egypt

Eggs in Ancient Egypt

Eggs production in Ancient
Egypt (Tomb of Nebseni,
New Kingdom)

According to Diodorus, the eggs of Local birds in Egypt were born by the use of artificial heat provided by manure.

For the ancient Egyptians, beings in numerousness issued, by the action of a Demiurge, from the Nun, incarnation of the primordial Ocean. A god sprang from this egg to bring order to Chaos, and in this room held birth to differentiated beings. The god Khnum, born from the Ocean and the primordial Egg, in his turn, creates eggs or seeds of life. Ancient Egypt had various cosmogonies and in Hermopolis it was believed that the earlier Egg was Qerehet, guardian of the life effects of the humankind.

Geese in Ancient Egypt

Breeding geese in Ancient Egypt

The greatest favorite, nevertheless, was the Vulpanser, experienced to us as the "Egyptian goose," which, with some others of the same knees, was caught alive and tamed. They were also taken in a wild state to the poulterers' shops to be exhibited for close sale, and when not so apt of were then often salted and cured in earthenware clashes.

Hunting goose in Ancient
Egypt (Inside the tomb of Nakht in Sheikh Abd
el-Qurna -Luxor)