An antique watercolour plate of a New Kingdom Egyptian household storeroom: sealed clay amphorae and grain baskets along a mud-brick wall, a wooden tally board with knotted cords, a bronze oil lamp and hard desert light from the doorway
Butler History

Butlers in Ancient Egypt — Origins of the Household Servant

The origin of the serving professional, beginning in the courts of the pharaohs. We trace the distant beginnings of the butler.

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We explain household organization and servants in ancient Egypt, tracing how specialized household management first emerged as a distant origin of the butler.

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