Digital session
Decoding ancient Egyptian tomb painting 

• Workshops take place in the Samsung Digital Discovery Centre. 
• They have been designed to incorporate a broad range of learning techniques. 
• Your students will take an active role throughout the workshop. 
• Workshops acknowledge that learning is not only about knowledge and understanding. It encourages students to be inspired and excited to visit museums, to develop their close observation competency, and to enhance their communication skills to express and share their own thoughts.  
• This workshop does not involve a guided tour of the galleries. 

• The workshop begins with an introduction to the British Museum and its collection of eight million objects.   
• Students use satellite imagery to identify the location of Egypt on the African continent. They will consider Egypt's natural environment and physical geography, including its relation to the rest of Africa. 
• Using an animation of a reconstructed ancient Egyptian tomb, students see what the inside of a wealthy ancient Egyptian's tomb might have looked like. 
• Students use digital devices in small groups to look closely at a series of tomb paintings depicting a family; Nebamun, Hatshepsut and their daughter. Interactive images of the paintings reveal insights into their life and Nebamun's hopes for his afterlife including topics of food, places and activities. 
• Students consider what their personal comparisons would be to those they have seen. Their favourite foods, places and activities. Drama and mime is used to play an activity guessing game. 
• Using digital devices and a green screen, students are supported to create a digital group collage incorporating the favourite things they will have recently discussed.

England, The National Curriculum in England, Key stage 2, History 

• The achievements of the earliest civilisations – an overview of where and when the first civilisations appeared and an in-depth study of one of the following: Ancient Sumer; The Indus Valley; Ancient Egypt; The Shang Dynasty of Ancient China.   

afterlife, ancient Egypt, archaeologist, Hatshepsut, hieroglyphs, Luxor, mummy, Nebamun, offering, River Nile, scribe, tomb.

You can discover more ancient Egypt resources to use with your class either before or after your workshop.