Help please please please!!!!!!!!!!! i need to know What were Ancient Egyptians

Question: Help please please please!!!!!!!!!!! i need to know What were Ancient Egyptians houses like!?
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In 'Women in Ancient Egypt' Barbara Watterson writes:

'In pharaonic Egypt all houses, no matter what their size and whatever the social status of their owners, were made largely of sun-dried mud-brick!. wood was used only for columns and ceiling beams, or for reinforcing or aerating walls; stone only for door and window frames!. The earliest mud-brick house consisted of a square or rectangular one-roomed structure which was used mainly as sleeping quarters for both the household and its animals - then as now Egyptian peasants lived in close proximity to their livestock!. Early in the First Dynasty (c 3000 BC) the floor at one end of the house was sometimes raised to provide a sleeping platform for the human occupants of the house; from this developed the custom of partitioning off the sleeping quarters of the head of the house by means first of animal skins or woven cloths and later by lattice screens!. Later still, the interiors of larger houses were subdivided by mud-brick walls, which were often coated with limewash, and, in the houses of the richer members of society, decorated with painted dadoes and top borders!. However, the basic early house-type persisted throughout Egyptian history in the houseing of the lowest stratum of society, needless to say, such houses were dark, smelly, cramped and without privacy!.

Large houses generally had kitchens, which were seperated from the main body of the house; but in smaller houses, the preparation and cooking of food was undertaken outside the house!. Thus, some sort of awning was usually erected over the entrance to provide shade for the housewife, who would have sat under it to do her cooking, spinning and other tasks!. In front of the house was a courtyard where animal fodder, and many of them animals themselves, were kept; and even in the richest households the stables and byres were not far removed from either the house or the kitchen!.

A large house generally had a public and a private section!. The former consisted largely of a reception room, in which raised daises, or divans, were provided for guests to sit on, and several offices!. The latter comprised the master's apartments - a bedroom an dperhaps a small sitting-room, guest bedrooms, storge rooms, and in the most luxurious houses, a bathroom with a cubicle in which a bather could stand while jugs of water were poured over him or her!. In the house of a man named Nakht at Amarna there was evena wooden lavatory stool, which was presumably used in conjunction with an earth closet!. In the private section of the house were the women's quarters, which often included a loggia, a lightweight construction of reeds and matting that formed an extra room on the roof!. The women's quarters were generally on the opposite side of the house to the guest's bedrooms, and access to them could only be obtained via the master's apartments!.'Www@QuestionHome@Com

the ancient Egyptians thought that when they died they were born again in the next world!. this is called reincarnation!. and it was believed that the pharaohs would return as pharaohs!. for this reason their bodies were carefully preserved after death !.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.SO they didn't give care for their houses in the life as they lived in simple houses made mainly from mud!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

they were made out of clay ;)

and other stuff too!.

they mostly used their natural resourses!. 'cos they didnt know how to make cement yet!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Depends on how you define "Ancient"!.!.!. the builders of the pyramids lived in mud daub dwellingsWww@QuestionHome@Com

Modestly furnished and decorated with Near Eastern flair!.Www@QuestionHome@Com