THEME: Food in crisis THEME AGRICULTURAL RITUALS IN ANCIENT EGYPT
While agriculture probably didn't arise independently in Egypt, the knowledge gleaned from neighbouring cultures was immediately made their own. Located far from the simmering zones of war and conflict in the Levant, ancient Egyptians took advantage of the Nile river's annual flood to create a civilization that sought – and found – resurrection, renewal, and fertility everywhere.
Agriculture and plenty in Egypt
The origins of agriculture in Egypt are a mystery, but one theory suggests that a drought around 6000 BC, in the area of Israel and Syria, forced small farming populations to migrate south along the Mediterranean coast until they reached the Nile Valley. As the domestication of wheat and emmer barley had begun on the Euphrates and in nearby Anatolia three or four thousand years earlier, these farmers would have brought their knowledge
