Food grains (barley) and their roles in food security in Ancient Egypt.

Document Type : Academic research papers

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1 Egypet. Girls College, Ain Shams University

2 Professor of Egyptology and Ancient History, Ain Shams University, - Faculty of Women for Arts, Science & Edu Ain Shams University

3 CCF for Coptic Studies, Cairo, Egypt; and Editor-in-Chief of JACI, CCF, Cairo, Egypt

Abstract

Key words (Grains, barley, Ancient Egypt, food security, agricultural crops)،Food grains (barley) and their roles in food security،Research objective: The study of the subject of food grains (barley) reflects that it is the basic element in human food. Many types of food grains (barley) can be identified, such as two-row barley, which was found in Faiyum, four-row barley, which was found in the storerooms of the Step Pyramid in Saqqara and in the tomb of “Ani” in Al-Jabalin in Thebes, Eleventh Dynasty, and six-row barley which was found in Al Maasara, Eleventh Dynasty. Most of the barley grown in Egypt was of six-row and four-row type. The research focuses on studying barley and its most famous deities.
The approach followed in the research: The researcher saw that it would be better to address this topic on ad hoc basis. In dividing the research, she will follow a qualitative tracking approach in processing it, and other things that increase the value of the worky, Key findings: The research will contain the most important results that the researcher will conclude after comprehensively analyzing the elements of the study. They can be summarized as follows: showing the importance of food grains (barley) and the most important deities. The researcher also collected all the pictures in the Agricultural Museum in Dokki, but she was unable to photograph them. She took information about them all and attached them to search.
I also recommend extensive research for food grains due to the scarcity of specialized articles

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Buhūth
Volume 5, Issue 7
Social Sciences and Humanities and Languages
July 2025
Pages 127-136

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