In this article we are going to get a little closer to the love life in ancient Egypt. We cannot approach an ancient society from a current perspective, but rather we have to put aside the prejudices that are imposed on us from our own perspective. If we do it this way, we will discover that the loving freedom of ancient Egypt is worth knowing.
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“Take a wife when you are young, so that she may give you a child. She must give birth to you while you are young, the world must be populated. The man with a large family is happy, he is admired for his descendants.
This is one of the teachings that a scribe from Nefertari's palace, Any, gives to young people in order to lead a prosperous and happy marriage.
Like this one, we can find many more teachings and advice that the older ones try to instill in the younger ones, since marriage was one of the pillars of Ancient Egyptian society.
The normal thing was that men married at the age of twenty, although if they were from a wealthy family, it could wait until a later age, since the young man had to finish his professional training.
Women, used to marry at the beginning of puberty, with approximately fourteen years. The couple used to meet before the engagement, proof of this are the fifty love songs that we keep from the New Kingdom.