Ancient Egypt

All Ancient Egypt taught sessions are suitable for KS2.

Excavation in Egypt

10.30 and 12.30 on the following dates:
18, 28 September 2009
9, 16 October 2009
2, 5, 9, 23 November 2009
11 December 2009
8, 11, 14, 22, 25, 29 January 2010
1, 8 February 2010
29 March 2010
30 April 2010
7, 10, 13, 17 May 2010
10, 11, 14 June 2010
9, 15 July 2010

Join a British Museum expedition to Egypt! Students find out how archaeologists work and then work as archaeologists themselves as they investigate a range of objects that might be found in an ancient Egyptian tomb.

Maximum group: 30
Duration: 60 minutes
£50 per group

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Looking at Egyptian mummies

10.30 and 12.00 on the following dates:
14, 17, 24 September 2009
2, 5, 12, 23 October 2009
6, 12, 16, 27, 30 November 2009
7, 15, 18, 25 January 2010
12, 22 February 2010
1, 5, 12, 18, 26 March 2010
22, 26 April 2010
7, 20, 21, 27 May 2010
7, 17, 21 June 2010
16 July 2010

Using slides, video and lots of questions, one of our team will introduce students to some of the mummies in the Museum’s collection. What is and what isn’t a mummy? How were mummies made? How do X-rays, dentists and microscopes tell us about life in ancient Egypt?

Maximum group: 120
Duration: 45 minutes
£1 per student

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Looking at Nebamun: daily life in ancient Egypt

10.30 and 12.00 on the following dates:
25 September 2009
15, 19 October 2009
13 November 2009
7, 10 December 2009
14, 28 January 2010
4, 11, 25 February 2010
8, 15, 25 March 2010
29 April 2010
14, 28 May 2010
18 June 2010
2, 12 July 2010

Join one of our museum teachers for a slideshow exploring the famous tomb painting of Nebamun hunting in the marshes. What was life like for Nebamun, his wife, Hatshepsut, and their daughter? How can we use one painting to start off enquiries into many aspects of ancient Egypt?

Maximum group: 120
Duration: 45 minutes
£1 per student

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How to read Egyptian paintings

12.00 on the following dates:
18, 21, 25 September 2009
2, 5, 16, 23 October 2009
6, 9, 20, 23, 27 November 2009
4, 11 December 2009
4, 8, 11, 22, 29 January 2010
1, 12 February 2010
8, 19, 22, 26, 29 March 2010
19, 30 April 2010
10, 17, 24 May 2010
11, 14, 25 June 2010
9 July 2010

After a visit to see the paintings from the tomb of the Egyptian official Nebamun, students go to the Samsung Digital Discovery Centre, where they use comic-book software to show how to understand what the paintings are saying. Finished work can be sent or taken back to school. This session takes place in the Samsung Digital Discovery Centre.

Maximum group: 30
Duration: about 2 hours with lunch at 12.00
Free, booking required

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