It was open to the air and sun.

The Egyptian loved the country, with its fresh air and sunshine, as well as its outdoor amusements--hunting and fishing, fowling and playing at ball.

Like his descendants to-day, he was an agriculturist at heart.

The wealth and very existence of Egypt depended on its peasantry, and though the scribes professed to despise them and to hold the literary life alone worth living, the bulk of the nation was well aware of the fact.
Even the walls of the tombs are covered with agricultural scenes.

In one of them--that of Pa-heri, at El-Kab--the songs of the labourers have been preserved.