However, as the primary link between the human and divine realms, temples attracted considerable veneration from ordinary Egyptians.
We need more of an Egyptian diet, the one for ordinary Egyptians that is, from during the time of the pharaos.
The priests would collect gifts that the ordinary Egyptians gave to the gods.
Many of the workers helping are not specialists but ordinary Egyptians who have volunteered.
The Government has resisted an increase, subsidizing the fee instead to keep it within the reach of most ordinary Egyptians.
The courage of ordinary Egyptians in standing up to the Iron heel of the military is just breathtaking.
Houses in which ordinary Egyptians lived have not been preserved, and when most people died they were buried in simple graves with few funerary goods.
"We don't want ordinary Egyptians to come to regard us as people who have brought bloodshed to their land."
The links between powerful businessmen and politicians provoke huge, if despairing, resentment amongst ordinary Egyptians.
And he encounters few ordinary Egyptians, except for those trying to sell him something.