Ancient Egypt
Resources
The Museum holds the largest collection of Egyptian objects outside Egypt. Highlights include the Rosetta Stone, a 5,000 year old sand-dried mummy, wall paintings from Nebamun’s tomb and sculptures of Ramesses II.
A guide to the Egyptian
galleries
Age 3–6, 7–11, 12–16, 16+
Early
Egypt
Age 7–11
Life in ancient
Egypt
Age 7–11
Mummies: Egyptian
mummies
Age 7–11
Mummies: how were
mummies
made?
Age 7–11
Mummies: the development
of mummification
Age 7–11
Nebamun: ancient
Egyptian tomb paintings
Age 7–11
Nebamun: what can you
learn from an Egyptian tomb?
Age 7–11
Nebamun: literacy
activities
Age 7–11
Ancient Nubia
Age 7–11
Painting an Egyptian
tomb
Age 7–11
Reading a
papyrus
Age 7–11
Symbols of the
pharaoh
Age 7–11
Sessions
Looking at the ancient Egyptian afterlife
Key Stage 2 (Age 7–11)
Taught handling sessions for SEN students
Key Stages 2–4 (Age 7–11, 12–16)
Experience history through sight, sound, smell and touch with these facilitated sessions
April 2013
Monday 15
April
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10.30 & 12.00
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10.30 & 12.30
Thursday 18
April
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10.30 & 12.00
Friday 19
April
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10.30 & 12.30
Monday 22
April
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10.30 & 12.30
Thursday 25
April
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10.30
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10.30 & 12.00
Monday 29
April
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10.30 & 12.00
May 2013
Monday 13
May
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10.30 & 12.30
Friday 17
May
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10.30 & 12.30
Monday 20
May
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10.30
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10.30 & 12.00
Thursday 23
May
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10.30 & 12.00
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10.30 & 12.30
Friday 24
May
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10.30 & 12.00
June 2013
Monday 3
June
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10.30 & 12.00
Friday 7
June
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10.30 & 12.00
Monday 10
June
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10.30
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10.30 & 12.30
Monday 17
June
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10.30
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10.30 & 12.30
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10.30 & 12.30
Monday 24
June
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10.30
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10.30 & 12.00
Thursday 27
June
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10.30 & 12.00
Friday 28
June
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10.30
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10.30 & 12.00
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10.30 & 12.30
July 2013
Monday 1
July
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10.30 & 12.30
Friday 5
July
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10.30
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10.30 & 12.00
Monday 8
July
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10.30 & 12.00
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10.30 & 12.30
Thursday 11
July
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10.30
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10.30 & 12.30
Friday 12
July
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10.30 & 12.00
Monday 15
July
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10.30 & 12.00
Thursday 18
July
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10.30 & 12.00
Friday 19
July
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10.30 & 12.00
Related galleries
Books
Teachers receive a 10% discount*. Quote teacher1112 in Museum shops or at the checkout online.
- A McDonald, The Ancient Egyptians: Their Lives and Their World
- John H Taylor, Egyptian Mummies
- Richard Parkinson, Hunefer and his Book of the Dead
- Delia Pemberton, Illustrated Atlas of Ancient Egypt
- Nigel Strudwick, Pocket Dictionary of Egyptian Mummies
- Nicholas Badcott, Pocket Explorer: African Civilizations
- Joyce Filer, Pocket Explorers: Ancient Egypt and the Nile
- Helen Strudwick, Pocket Timeline of Ancient Egypt
- Richard Parkinson, Pocket Guide to Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs
- Angela McDonald, The British Museum Pocket Dictionary of Ancient Egyptian animals
*Discount cannot be used in conjunction with any other offers.