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While wealthy families had servants like nannies and maids to take care of the children, in most families the mummy did that.
Fetch me a bag of jelly mummies and a can of cola, my good man.
Yeah, good luck with that...
Of course, when we say "the mummy" we mean the mother, rather than the creepy bandage-wrapped thing. That would not be at all comforting when it shuffled upstairs at night to tuck you in to your reed mat and read you some bedtime hieroglyphs.
Night night, sleep tight. Don´t let the scorpions bite!
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Egyptian women worked hard around the house, but they had almost as many rights as men, although the father headed the household.
At least he couldn’t hog the TV controls back then.
Family life