Life in Ancient Egypt 
revolved around the Nile where the soil was made fertile by the yearly flooding that occurred. The people built mud brick homes both in the country and in the villages and many maintained vegetable gardens. The floors of these adobe homes were tiled. A nobleman’s home would have been divided into three areas: a reception area, a hall, and the private bedrooms. The windows and doors on the house were covered with mats to keep out the heat, the dust and insects. For decoration they used wall hangings made of leather. Often there was a room on the roof with three walls where the family slept on hot summer nights. The homes in villages usually had three floors, with the bottom floor used as a store and the upper floors as living space.
Most of the people were involved in farming, 
but there were also craftsman, scribes and a small group of nobles. Scribes learned to read and write hieroglyphs and hieratic (a quicker, shorter form of hieroglyphs). They had two main duties, to read and write the sacred hieroglyphs that would appear on temples and tombs and to keep government records as well as completing correspondence for the pharaohs. Egyptian farmers grew grain, mostly wheat and were the first people to use the ox-drawn plow. Because of the scarcity of grazing lands, most of the peasant class subsisted on ground wheat and whatever vegetables they could grow. Fishing in the Nile would’ve provided a meal, provided you did not revere the fish as a god. In some places in Egypt, fish were considered sacred and therefore not eaten.
Food was cooked either over open fires or in clay ovens. Kitchen utensils were found in tombs and were not unlike what we use today. Pots, whisks, storage jars, bowls, ladles and sieves were all in common use. The average family used dishes made with clay, while the wealthy favored dishes made of gold, silver or bronze.
Family
Family life was important in ancient Egypt and children were considered to be a great blessing from the gods. People married quite young though marriages were generally polygamous, with husbands having several wives. This was especially true in the royal families. In most cases there was a senior or favored wife, but it appeared that husbands were fond of all their wives. Divorce was permissible, but not prevalent or very common.
Clothing/Jewelry
Clothing was usually made of linen ranging from a coarse to a fine texture. Men usually wore a short kilt; women, a straight fitting dress held up by straps. The wealthy men wore pleated kilts, noblewomen sometimes wore beaded dresses. When doing hard work, men wore a loin cloth, and women wore a short skirt. Children usually ran around nude during the summer months.
In the winter, wraps and cloaks were worn. Everyone wore jewelry; rings and amulets were worn to ward off evil spirits and injury. Both men and women wore earrings, bracelets, armlets, and anklets.
Cosmetics/Hair
The Egyptians were clean people; they bathed daily either in the river or in a basin in their home. They did not use soap, but used a cleansing cream, made from oil, lime and perfume. Living in a harsh climate, the Egyptians found ways to take care of their skin. They rubbed themselves daily with perfumed oil to help keep the skin from drying out. Everyone wore cosmetics; men, women, children, of all classes. They even had highly polished copper or silver mirrors to help with the application of their makeup.
Eye shadow was made from green malachite, and galena — a gray lead ore. Both were ground into a powder and mixed with oil to make eye color called Kohl. It was kept in jars and applied to the eyes with a small stick. The upper and lower eyelids were painted with the kohl that extended in a line out to the sides of the face. The Egyptians believed the makeup had magical, healing powers and some even believed that wearing it would restore poor eyesight. It was also used to fight eye infections and reduce the glare of the sun.
The common person wore their hair short. The younger girls wore pigtails and the boys had shaved heads. Men and women also wore wigs made of sheep’s wool or of human hair. These wigs were worn both for decoration and for protection from the heat and usually for parties or at official functions. Hair pieces were also popular for enhancing one’s own head of hair. When not in use, the wigs were stored in boxes or on stands in the home.
Religion
Cults were the structure used by the people to worship the Egyptian gods and this structure included the priests who carried out rituals associated with the gods, who were frequently manifested in the form of statues, within the temples. The center of the Egyptian cult was the temple, a sacred area enclosed by a wall that was built to exclude the profane.
Rituals centered on offerings made to the gods, but there were many other rituals, including daily functions such as tending to the clothing the gods (or at least the statue of the gods) wore. Other rituals took the form of celebrations or perhaps processions when, one statue of a god might be taken to visit the temple of another, and it was during these festivals that average Egyptians probably came closest to their gods, because generally they were prohibited from the inner part of the temple that housed the cult statues.
Most Egyptians could only hope that the pharaoh and/or priests took their religious duties seriously, otherwise they might expect to suffer famine or disasters or be unable to have the chance at an afterlife. But as time passed, religion became more available to the common man, so that in later Egyptian history, ordinary Egyptians had their own means of worshipping and being accepted by their gods. Egyptians built within their homes shrines for their own personal worship, and public shrines where they could worship and pray together. However, in all of Egyptian history, the common people were limited as to the scope of worship in which they could participate in the official cult centers.
Gods
The Egyptian religion had a plethora of gods and goddesses. They were truly polytheistic in their worship; in fact the sheer volume of gods and goddesses fairly defines the word polytheism. There were the animal gods, the gods of the afterlife, gods of the home, the sun god; the god of the moon, the goddess of war, the goddess of the Nile, the goddess of music and dance, the goddess of moisture, the goddess of weaving, the goddess of writing and measurement, the goddess of funerals, the goddess of scorpions and snakes, indeed there seems to be a god for every letter of our alphabet and I am not kidding! Only one pharaoh tried to get Egypt to worship one god called Aten, and his attempt failed.
Pharaoh Akhenaten and family (including his son Tutankamun) worshipping Aten.
