Egyptian houses are somewhat similar to houses that people live in today.
This is a simple townhouse owned by Djehutinefer.
Djehutinefer was a royal scribe and treasurer under Amenhotep II.
He lived and was buried at Thebes, where drawings of his townhouse were found.
According to the depiction of its outside it was narrow and tall with a wide entrance. The walls were painted blue.
He had a second tomb made for himself where a kind of a cross section of his house was shown.
Here is a better picture of a another house.
In some parts of Egypt this is what a village would look like:
Most Egyptian houses were made from bricks of sun dried mud.
