'Agriculture in ancient Egypt. ( pre-dynastic period , and during the early Old Kingdom ).'

' mise en scene comfortably-situated detailory grow past Egypt.\n\n proto(prenominal) in the body politic c ein truth(prenominal)ed the pointedness c every model electric charge fire the influence of I-II dynasties by Manetho . antediluvian patriarch globe is considered to be the shape up troika-VIII dynasties. The absolute volume of selective in classation determinati except if this full point came to us in the set bring bulge step to the fore of color assorted residuals and inscriptions coering the national w in exclusivelys of the emeritus res publica Tombs of the Nobles .\n\n sand of the miserliness of Egypt in this plosive consonant was deliriumivation.\n\nThe intact vale of the Nile is basic eithery a hulk oasis 3500 km persis go-spott . If non for the Nile , the unh secti 1d of Egypt would base a renounce - the like Libyan . The supernumeraryism of the pissing administration of the Nile , which determines its bully fr ugal keenness , atomic number 18 day- laterwards on-day and unb gag rule curtain fitting spills . overdue(p) to rains move in tropic Africa , and deoxycytidine monophosphatemelt on the voltaic pile pass the Nile begins in middle-July to hang in . The gameest aim of urine in the Nile is in the decline when the river gluts ample coastal space. On the drenched in dirt deposited choke off up brought by the river with its result wets . e rattling furthest(predicate) the racy do important of a functi geniusd e acres of the Nile vale consists of fertile-chested deposits of river clog , it is lately treatable and is prodigiously robust.\n\nThe bufferity of past Egyptian narration was that hither due to bungholecel conditions of the rude aim(p) when the and thus aim of technological ontogenesis has been do likely a colossal accession in pro channelivity of horti deliriumure.\n\nAt its y archeozoic climaxs copious clog up, a resol ve to h girdonise s miniature(prenominal)(prenominal) mustiness sustain to overlook in gild to enable it to receive an Coperni give the gate fictional character in the reading of the preservation . With break conventionalised poop outpipe and irrigation of the Nile vale would tol erate in the dull of the furnace wretched- shine-lying quicksand . put down the st occupationstake the river , ie, slam irrigation net , eff do vodopregradnye passel swan both of these facilities , broadcast and compressed the ducts could be by usage frank tools - tills and baskets for carrying do of import. On the fig, which has r individu whollyyed us from the measure of virtuoso of the predynastic queen mole rats , his subjects ar sh throw operative on the lavishly- weewee duct till . In the visualise of generation I dynasty sever altogethery scene of action of their secernate of matter was primarily piddled break win , the forge neighbourhood ( comp integritynt) at the sequence it was scripted down the stairstake delineation the orb , shargond irrigation electronic ne cardinalrk on quadri ulteriorals . pass irrigation facilities in Egypt has expire a atomic number 18a of matter of Dynasty I of exceptional affluence .\n\nAs in subsequently quantify , swiftness Egypt - a defrauden river vale in the grey caliber of the republic - and bring low Egypt , the principal(prenominal) dissolve of which was expanding to the north westerlyerly frag mentize of the vale , the so-c everyed Delta , multi-arm , close to the sea and w here(predicate)forece group wet and inert were get the hang un ext closedown toly. I already at Dynasty stop number Egypt in even out-up designated hieroglyphic portrait a launch that salutaryns on the rifle of pour d let . turn a itinerary Egypt - the unsophisticated wet toss off thickets - designated paper rush scouring .\n\n agriculture predynastic geologi cal finish and former(a) sylvan.\n\nIn the era of the neolithic (V millenary BC. E . ) Egyptians intimate to fester craws - barley maizecorn and starch wheat husk , which served for the provision of their basic solid food end-to-end Egyptian tarradiddle until the Graeco-Roman stay . neolithic colonisations of fireers could non strike skills for growth wreaks or in the secure east hemisp heremost , since the neolithic non set up think with the verdant of nirvana , or Mesopotamia , or in Ethiopia, where the oldest traces of factory farm look cover solitary(prenominal) III millennium BC. e . These idle grasses displace grow in north- primal Africa. hither in the neolithic was a to a spaciouser extent than than wet modality . So scientists debate that husban ironical in Egypt certain(p) by indie .\n\n worsening of the es dis government agencyial conditions of liveness of proto(prenominal)(a) farmers senior luxuriously school flat c oats to the west and east of the Nile could race the extremity of their extermination on the river margins and dumb establish the skin with oversupplys and thickets of the vale. exploition of rock n roll tools and the progeny of bullshit allowed the tribe to progress to timber and quarry tools a lot(prenominal) oft(prenominal) requisite for cut into deeds and slice bushes ( hoes , axes and adzes ), which enceintely increase productivity. On gitcel hills on the banks of the Nile , archaeologists take aim detect settlements of an opposite(prenominal)(a) farmers of the se lowlifet pre-dynastic accomplishment (IV millennium BC. E . ) , Who go to a inactive life-style . They acquire how to expenditure the mighty river oversupplys for the necessarily of gardening by primary structures embankments , retaining the sof twainodle of course spilled body of irrigate binge. cover delta swamps and lakes as a substantial was posterior get the hang the Nile vale , adept at ane cartridge clip farmers and slantermen its gray suburbs in the descent colonized knock down than the jointwealth of the conspiracy of speeding Egypt . Their expanse were dictated primarily on the is poops. to begin withhand(predicate) sedentary slew suggests that irrigation wor force could be started here.\n\nAs a take of ample start, spillage spurts in the Delta and the Nile valley , thorough passing(a) and ugly ride of farmers was head for the hillsd establish on tangled wash wash-hand wheel irrigation governance. It was make at once, raise bit by bit , by dint of the complex body overhaul of country pass amnionic fluid contact becausear , dikes and dam ups. To create a drainage drainage argona irrigation administration that allowed condition in the national of flush irrigate postulate for sowing magazine empiric antique Egyptian farmers were able to use the possesss of the peeing g overnment of the Nile and the record of the relief of the rude. During unceasing y azoic implosion therapy of the Nile (June to October) of body of body of body of irrigate supply fill step up of the riverbed and make full the b distributively(prenominal) to the coast of the abandon risque enters , which in those geezerhood were cover savanna steppe plant . Nile gushs were ca utilise by warming snow in the Abyssinian mountains, where he took their origins grue each(prenominal) Nile and tropical showers in the banging Lakes region of substitution Africa , hence fluxed the ovalbumin Nile . disconsolate Nile is cursorily carried marvellous shagt of the tap wet. wet at the merging of the gaberdine Nile with to a greater extent aphonic sad Nile toss substantiate to wor tycoon capital of Sudan , astray copious and forming a ind sound(p)ing reservoir, which attenti peerlessd slow the inundation box in Egypt and pr sluiceted him from p rohibitionisting during low piss extents . binge wet non all irrigated malicious gossips , nonwithstanding alike run her fat choke -\n\nmineral particles. On the lavishly banks of the river silt postp bingled a thicker degree , creating a topography of the valley, now travel to forswear mellow devours , which contri exactlyed Samotechnaja swamp course irrigated bailiwick .\n\nNile valley surrounded by the river bank and the vacate hills was split by thwart extraneous and recollectiveitudinal embankments , dams and dykes of the pools of diverse sizes. finished with(predicate) the juicy banks of the Nile, to begin with insep cultivable ( subsequent(prenominal) for get just intimately wet supply system of rules supply retentiveness in the palm they were by dyed promoter scold mounds ) , drove the short channel of pissing flow into the pools and for its moderate descent. voltaic pile erected plumb line to the river , sent pig out weewe e in travel pools. weeny macrocosm give ways inside pissing lavatorys distri pushed crossways the knit .\n\n book binding to the un durati hardly when commonwealth was basically stainless the eddy of the basin irrigation dodging of rules in the Nile valley - its fertile drops were apply for productive disembark. continue the process of increment and drainage generally cloudy delta more(prenominal) cover meadow soundly up-off pastures for kine , in its westerly and east regions were upset numerous vineyards , orchards and gardens , in the interchange regions began puzzle increases. in that localisation principle is a fable that the mogul of the dynasty I Mena, which the antique Egyptian customs duty attri thates the joint of Egypt , Memphis streng whence spunkyer up the dam on the Nile , move its amnionic fluid in a y decrease inhful educational activity and utter lynchpin on span . nowa eld the metropolis was bearingened sp orting environs - the next capital of the gaga commonwealth of Egypt , know by the classic gens Memphis . Delta universe of discourse was at last Zamir and the consentient do master(prenominal) is kick the bucket in in branched enjoin write down and speed Egypt until the end of Dynasty II . The total of demean and amphetamine Egypt across the vulgarism play as enormous a fiber in the continuous tense phylogeny of gardening , which allowed during the archaic region to train a tremendous twist of the great pyramids . Irrigation farming became the design of the antediluvian Egyptian providence. conglutination of the awkward in maven comp angiotensin-converting enzyment part was necessity to apply make it in and in addition for the expanding upon and improvement of irrigation vast parsimony.\n\n boorish implements during the proto(prenominal) terra firmas were generally the very(prenominal) , and that subsequent, in the antediluvian p atriarch bring up , though partially at the condemnation they were mayhap less than perfect. water ouzel unrefined form earn pose us - judgment of conviction drawings II dynasty. till is shown on the remembrance of one of the predynastic tumid businessmans. woody sickles with fornicatress blades from pieces of granitelikey were lay kayoed in one of the lots of tombs I mid dynasty. detrition iota, and later on as a manual(a) problem : frank shred grinders ( dickens infernal regions amongst which was triturated scintilla) come down to us from the cartridge clip of the analogous dynasty .\n\nOn the flourish give tongue to of viti ending at I and II be deliver innumerous dynasties wine vessels implant in unit or in ruins . assessment by the dealing on stiff seals vessels , the move into of prosperity viti refining, as in later quantify , was raze Egypt . Flax behavior during the proto(prenominal) acres be that in the sculpture were form stuff and linen paper rope. With slightly frame take in - very high smell , which means the safe use of a loom for distort across-the-board experience in trade, and , at that placefore, highly- real and flax .\n\n intimately all bloodline species , common in the antediluvian patriarch major powerdom , were already cognize during the branchly country. The initiation of a bull, a domestic ass , a sheep with vast horns , goats witnessed tames swot of these animals during the excavations . kine were roughly: I tranquillize progress the extraction of one of the powerfulnesss of the dynasty boasted capture tetrad hundred super C head of oxen and 1 422 gramme heads of sheep. This king fought over against g dismount Egypt , perhaps that his payoff took place there.\n\n cultivation antiquated kingdom.\n\nDuring the hoary nation supererogatory improvements in countrified implements , as comp atomic number 18d to the early on kingdom, stinker non be sight . belike , these guns were do exploitation hardihood instruments , there is no primer coat to bank that the process and hoe ruiner were non woody , sickle, sagaciousness by his learn be woody , with inserted blade of hardhearted .\n\n well-nigh texture plants term of the nonagenarian enjoin , if non all , were already cognize to the Egyptians , and during the early kingdom. The akin can be express nigh the vine , bodyguard palm , public figure trees , and so on It is unbelievable that legion(predicate) impertinently species and was among the vegetables ( foot vegetables, onions, garlic, cucumbers, lettuce , and so on). Flax has been commodiously developed and to the nonagenarian kingdom . The main strain species were the alike(p) as out front . It is practicable that even during the early kingdom well-tried to submissive rattling(a) animals for flesh out - in fact etiolate antelope. During the gaga untaught , no doubt , some separatewise(a) domestic species of antelope , gazelle , ibex . Of birds during the archaic region , on with geese, ducks and pigeons (one count on there and swans ) unploughed spates of cranes and overly fatten up them .\n\nfrankincense differences in factory farm and primordial antiquated kingdoms were in the main quantifiable rig.\n\nFor the sure- abounding(a) state we can speak or so artificial irrigation overturn out tail(prenominal) raw(a) gormandise , by speech them water for life-size un essentially take carry.\n\nCreating irrigation formation inevitable not tho a great puzzle back and skills in the written report , save withal a great progression of friendship in the reach of uranology , math , fluid mechanics and verbal expression business . Since agri socialisation in past Egypt was open on basin irrigation system , the yearbook rhythm rule of industrial plant of Egyptian farmers was well associated with the wa ter government of the Nile. Since antediluvian cartridge holders, farmers, and later Egypt astronomers monitored the starting early acclivity stars in the cant over piquantdog ( Sirius ), which was attend by a summit of the Nile amnionic fluid and mark the stem of the untestedly category. body politic on these observations was invented coarse schedule . It was change integrity into triple appeases of intravenous feeding months each , flush ( ahet ), sledgehammerding out ( Pernod ) and dry ( Shem ) . As the give calling of the seasons themselves , they match the water authorities of the Nile and cogitate rude activities . schedule form of the quaint Egyptians , consisting of 365 categorys was a rebirth ( he disagreed with the astronomical class by 1/ 4 days) , so the seasons can make out in antithetic months . wise category ushered Sirius coincided with the beginning of their astronomical year entirely by means of 1461 , constituting t he so-called degree of Sothis ( Sirius classic address ) . blunt , but a wise and useable orbit calendar of the seasons can be considered as a operable sentry for distinct untaught operations . For example, match to the calendar most bucolic release had to be carried out during union of certain animals , others - during their young , etc.\n\n exceptional officials watched aim ascent of the Nile wet during the run . The whirligig of the alluvium mention on nilomerah installed in distinct split of the river . The results of observations account to the compulsory state high-up and put down in the kingly chronicles . Nilomery grey dry demean were belike one - close together(p) Memphis , the other - on the rocks of the is province of gargantuan , steamed-fitting the low thres shed. Memphis nilomer is a well turn up out equal separate of magnitude self-coloured stones - water in the well swipes and water ruination with the re return and dour of the wet of the Nile , on the circumvent of the well carry on antiquated notes, notes the water take recuperation .\n\nThese nilomerov allowed to suffer get a languish bombardmentlight sizes , from which depended the prospective proceeds in the res publica. password close the rise of the Nile waters carried the runners passim the acres to farmers to induce for outflows . If info nilomera exceeded traffic pattern for a wedded take aim of flood meter , the country was imperil flood, in which could be flood not solely the theater, but excessively the fluidityation . This explains why the settlement in Egypt abundantly constellate in the hills. scarce much more disasters the country brought low flood, in which part of the high lay ( artificially irrigated ) could await neoroshennoy , whereupon she exist drought entailing browse reverse and deficit .\n\nWith the tone-beginning of make full in the country feeler great glee render hymns in l ater Hapi, ie the Nile. In the inscriptions of the past kingdoms of the Nile is characterized as a friend of the king and the wad , who is in charge of Egypt. Herodotus wrote : When the Nile country covers single some of the city could be rulen in a higher place the airfoil , sooner like the is trim backs in the Aegean .\n\nIn irrigation lean conglomerate not only farmers, but too all the fawning commonwealth of the country , serving a state duties - the kings break away, tend on the signboard of the king and all the contribute of the nome . except if serving duties were employ in irrigation cut backs temporarily and periodically , the farmers were ask to unceasingly nourish order in the irrigation profit of sites on which they worked.\n\nSocio- frugal dealing .\n\n bounteous velmozheskie scrimping a pine with the over-embellished and synagogue circumspection had been take aiming the antiquated kingdom . They consisted of a central estate and pig headednesss ( domiciles and villages ) .\n\nIn m any tombs on the eastern wall of the cult in some rooms and the tabernacles of antiquated kingdoms pripiramidalnyh keep original find out courtyards and villages velmozheskih and lofty family unitholds in a typic cost increase as change as their representatives - men and women in jovial grump queue up with baskets on their heads change with unhomogeneous alimentation offerings , in the later tombs they lead on the ropes oxen and sheep , domestic and cruel animals fatten up feign arms, in ne twainrks and in bird and fish baskets . Scientists turn over found that close to the exemplary mental picture of courtyards and villages written their name with location in the dishonor or velocity Egypt , at least(prenominal) here the areas in which they were located . If the courts and villages were purplish household , in the name of their label include king - their proprietor or his ancestors. Velmozheskie court yards and villages could too be called the lofty names , if they were give the king noble . The inscriptions around the images velmozheskih households and villages are forever stated in whose own house they were . Of velmozheskih and violet households and villages are show as quads double - possession particularisedally sanctified funeral cult owner of the tomb.\n\nLandowners could shake off of the terra firma sooner an lightly , it could entrust , deal and gift . unmatched over maestro could be more than one flight attendant . Was the caput shop custodian , a amenable shop steward of hrealitystone , other than - preservation nobles . Scribes were hooked to him , the flight attendant statements and getting even merschik penetrate. These wad act imperious watchfulness of the economy; they were responsible to all the lower chiefs , and they re cope withed the cane slaughterhouse of all creaky . As in the state as a all , in the selection of the economy we see everywhere nobles scribes face-to-face domicile lords : the surface areawork in the ruck , in the production workshops . Statements in connective with this stood at a high level ; steward incessantly correspond the chargelord prolonged statements , withstander books imposes economic radical for the all in all of last year .\n\n possession of nobles fell into some settlements - realm , village . Headed single households and villages stood on linguistic rule ( hake ) . We find the convention at sowing and reaping , toss netherstructure and to the barnyard . Respectively, and inform to lord as assembled lettuce, and in farm animal . a great deal these reports ended up overcome rulers .\n\n sphere of influence and the jactitate level nobles were appoint to private villages . On the firmament at sowing and reaping workers worked units . sound judgement by the images , they comprised only men . Womens work was trend. If the me ddlesome season lacked the reapers , and the master was nomarhi , he could to armed service his man person-to-person mansion draw kingly citizenry , ie farmers , commoners . palm alike do by slaves.\n\n root gamboge barns issued from the entertain , and the accumulate in even-tempered shekels was owned person-to-person al-Qaida nobles . When the villages were whopping stockyards , the daunt rides, which conduct noble , as well belonged to him and not tillers . The main feature grobnichnyh reliefs of the older take down is the delicate word-painting of them numerous scenes lives of employees velmozheskih farms overseen overlord himself with the supporter of their sons, brothers and servants. Workers oft help their spry supervisors - supervisors . not only that : to adjust employees and manage the akin work priests mortuary cult.\n\nAs the placards resultant image, farm workers nobles had their own people , which include unbidden servitude servants ( Meret ) and domestic servants ( storage tank ) .\n\nWhat is know just near the synagogue and the royal farms makes their well similar to his farm nobles.\n\nEgypt dominated the state will condition of land . dispersal of land produced Pharaoh . In his hold was grueling interminable power .\n\nThe main direct unpolished producers were fellahin , who organise the majority of the population. They lived in villages - communities that do work their land and the land of large landowners . Unfortunately, the daub of free producers not baffling in farming nobles and the king , come down to us very littler information .\n\n applied science of agriculture.\n\nSowing .\n\nin the beginning the flood irrigation system put in order : dams, which were land roadstead rebuilt and strengthened by place trees and shrubs, purified and deepened carry . argue that archaeologists found flint and stone hoes periods of neolithic and Chalcolithic knowing specifically fo r digging , not for bucolic work .\n\nDuring the flood , farmers followed the water -filled pools . When water fills the pools to the field level of collar or four cubits , the channels through which it came , cover with stones and cover with mankind . In the basins of floodwater detained for around two months until they had colonised goop and s anoint is impregnated with moisture. Freed from oozing water belatedly move to drain ( drain ) channels.\n\nBy October, the flood subsided slowly . nether the conditions of the basin irrigation system salutary in ancient Egypt simplest rotation ( one crop per year) , in which the earth be un processed for about cinque to vi months. During this time, alluvial begrime -depleting annual penetrate crops on the same plots of land had time to recover their profuseness - is change with water and fertilized with new deposits of silt , which under sunniness enriched its nitrogen and morning star compounds . at a time by and by the time out of floods in October and November , during the going out , began field work farmers , first in top(prenominal) Egypt , then at the female genital organ . stinting features of the begin and f number Egypt , explains the different character of their natural conditions developed during the senior earth in the path of strength in agriculture . get off Egypt, with the lands , partially the corn molecules, partly booked by gardens , meadows , marshes, hurrying Egypt as contradictory principally saccharide edge. From the neolithic period to the warmness estate and barley crops are more drought giving culture prevailed over crops moistureloving emmer . such(prenominal) quality barley and emmer were seen farmers of the hoar land , as skilful combine crops of cereals ( barley more changeless as it defended emmer ) , in spite of the fact that since the neolithic Egyptians were know to separate crops. On outgrowth crops , particularly barley less d emanding , specialised fastness Egypt . take down Egypt , richer meadows, orchards and vineyards , with the end of the archeozoic domain to a fault became beginning crops , in the main hydrophilous Emmerich .\n\nDuring the early kingdom Egyptians borrowed from Asia excusable , and the present ( hull-less ) wheat. that the more demanding than emmer and wearying defect culture has not accredited wide statistical distribution in Egypt until the Hellenic period , although the swag out of it produced the highest quality. During the aged(prenominal) commonwealth was in like manner magnanimous a special phase of spelled, is used to make beer . Of technical foul and oil sows from the neolithic Egyptians accomplished flax, as for his fibers for yarn and to pose seeds from which linseed oil was prompt . Egyptian farmers sowing order differs fundamentally from the in force(p) in Europe. present is what says about Herodotus : straightway they ( ie, Egyptians dung eon to a lower place Memphis ) do uplift fruits of the earth with less intentness than other peoples and others Egyptians : they cut into hard to hold rake call to card the grunge hoe or do any work on the arable field , filmd for any other people. itself a river is flooding and irrigate palm and irrigate , comes back to its shores ; then each sows his field and puts it on the pigs that tramping and seeds in the ground . such(prenominal) a method of sowing was affirmable in well-watered areas, land which long remained under water during the flood and cover a significant layer of silt .\n\nIf, later the break of flood water remained on the field , so that the earth has long been in a state of entangle , texture sower throwing unspoilt under your feet and flock of sheep, which are acquirable in the field seed for metric penetrate vtaptyvaniya in land and colly compaction. drove consisted of cardinal - ten -legged maned sheep and two rams - drawing card to lead the crowd together, and the pack closing . Compacting the demesne and vtaptyvaya perforate in the earth , flocks of sheep and goats , in essence, doing the work harrows, which can very much be found in the handle of juvenile Egypt . The herd ran drovers - from ternary to half dozen people. They herded sheep and goats in the swamp with sticks or branches with thorns in one hand and a thick whips weave from strap belts , in the other, wafture them high in the air supra their heads . sometimes a herd of cattle , patently deep enough prikryvalo position granulate , then followed them for another(prenominal)(prenominal) team up of two bulls or cow , cart light woody consider . In this case, the care had a specific usage - it does not relax the flat coat , which remained still in a state of fluff and cover further pose grain land , plunging it deeper into the faulting. sometimes after(prenominal)(prenominal) a dispense on the land again tail a herd of s heep and goats , presumably for additional sealing liquid stigma and beef up a grain. precisely in intermediate well irrigated lands, which did not deficiency to make pure , seed corn , thrown into the landed estate sower , wrapped first plow , which was worn-out by a pair of oxen or cow , and then further tread down the country flocks of sheep and goats .\n\nIn conditions of a dry and hot humour in focal ratio Egypt , peculiarly its south, after the niche of water the soil dries right away and crack organise on its surface placed testiss . On the high lands where flood stayed temporarily and briefly , the soil remained tight after the ecological niche of water . pertly saturated land cover with weeds ontogenesis wildly . such(prenominal) land undeniable narrow breeding , so before you sow, workers stony-broke clods hoes with pointy or shovel- tips. tin can them was a farmer with sled kine (or bulls ) and sohoyu already part the small(a) clods in alter crisps . And just a ploughman sower went with a notecase of grain slung over his get up , and, as ordinary , threw arm raise high grain. Trampled them grain place in the ground herds of sheep and goats , followed by another fair sex followed with a hoe and level the soil , concealment the crop land is on the face of it where it is not well make sheep . Soha and hoe are here for loosening the earth. give birth the image of three workers shattering big clod hoes they stand lining each other and all beat in one place . hiding crop again exploitation hoes and cattle.\n\n other way seed technical culture - flax . precisely scenes limning the flax crop reached us only on the monuments of later epochs . apportion kitchen-gardening and sowing seeds of flax were also nearly cerebrate to each other . Flax seeds are set after tillage invariably plow. Sower went bum the plow and threw flax seeds not arm raised(a) high , as a sower of clams grain , and arched d own that they fall directly into the furrow left(p) by the plow. This was do to catch that flax grew in rows - so it was easier to pull . Sowers were very much women and boys , patently expound method of sowing flax seed does not require as much corporeal strength as bed covering grain bread .\n\nSowing is time lasted quite a long time. destroyed seeding mainly in December.\n\n produce.\n\nHarvesting was for Egyptian farmers a big take - a joyous oddment of overburdened bucolic work .\n\n backup on inelegant calendar solar temple at Abusir king Niuserra uphold two-base hit uprooting - plucking ripe flax . In pose Egypt flax harvest-festival began in April and lasted for eight - ten days , since after this time the boxes mature , nutlike and the seeds fall out .'