The Moral values and The social life in ancient Egypt

In this early era for the oldest human group whose news reached us, it was previously thought that the right of every individual to have good morals can be based on the basic of the approach and behavior which by it treat with members of his family, and they are his father, mother, brothers, and sisters.

And one of the nobility men of Upper Egypt who lived in the twenty-seventh century BC was confirmed this to us, as he said in the inscriptions of his tomb after enumerated to us many of his good deeds: "I do not tell a lie, because I was a human loved by his father, praised by his mother, good behavior with his brother, friendly to his sister."

We also find, after a period from the date of this inscription, that one of the king's confidants  from the people of Upper Egypt also confirms: " The king has praised me, and my father left a will for my benefit because I was kind... and a human loved by his father, praised by his mother, and all his siblings loving him ", and we often see the nobility during the Age of the Pyramids collecting their good qualities in the following phrase: " I was a human loved by his father, praised by his mother, and loved by his brothers and sisters ."

The righteousness to Parents was one of the most prominent  important virtues in the Age of the Pyramids, as we find is mentioned in ancient inscriptions over and over again in the cemeteries of pyramids, that the righteous sons had made these huge tombs for their deceased fathers, and the son was preparing his father a luxurious burial ground, and one of the sons of that era mentioned in the inscriptions of his tomb: "And now I have worked to be buried in the same tomb with “Zau” (his father) to be with him in one place, and this didn't mean that I am not in status allows me to build a second tomb, but I did so that I could see this "Zau" every day, and to be with him in the same place".

We have also another case greater than this in the righteousness of the son to his father, which is the story of "Sebni" (the guard of the southern door), that is, the keeper of the Egyptian border from the side of "Sudan" at the first waterfall of the Nile, it happened "Mekhu" father Of " Sebni " had made a dangerous trip in the heart of "Sudan" for trading, and there some savages swooped on him and slaughtered him, When his son " Sebni " heard about the slaying of his father, he immediately made a dangerous journey in the heart of that hostile territory, and he saved his father's body after exposed his life to death, and brought the body of his father to be preserved in Egypt, and still the tomb of " Sebni " remaining in "Aswan" until now, and this tomb contains inscriptions indicating what the son " Sebni" did towards his father " Mekhu" of the courage to save the body of his father from the hands of those enemies in the ancient Age of the Pyramids.

 The social life in ancient Egypt

These inscriptions that we see on the tombs of "Memphis" represent the period about 500 years time span, that is from 3000 BC to 2500 BC, and it considers the first manifestation of the family life which remained to us from the ancient world, and these drawings are artistic relics and sources from which we draw our information about the lives of the ancient Egyptians in agriculture, herding, and industry, and about their social life, and the cheerful social relations involving friendliness, it considers a new discovery to be of fundamental importance in the history of morality.

In those engraved inscriptions, we see the owner of one of the villages that surround the city of "Memphis" engraved on the wall by a great size and supervises the men of his village who engraved with him in the image with a much smaller size, we see him check on them as they sowing grain or harvesting the crops or herding livestock and flocks, or digging the irrigation canals, or work in building  their boats, their trade shops, factories of making copper, or the place of pottery making, and other hundreds of images that tell us about many aspects of their activities and works in their worldly life.

And you also see in these inscriptions the ancient Egyptian noble accompany his wife with him in all those spacious tours throughout his vast village, and in fact, his wife was sharing with him all his life and all his works and their children were always with them.

We also, see the head of household fishing in the swamps which designated for that purpose, and his wife and child beside him, and all of them in a reed boat swimming among the long papyrus flowers, and in this image, the child was curved towards the water to picking the Water Iris flowers, and we also see the Egyptian Noble sitting in his garden, and his children in front of him playing ball or playing in a pond of the garden during they were fishing.

Accordingly, it becomes clear that moral values were appreciated in the eyes of the gods, which may materially affect the happiness of the deceased in the afterlife.