As we continue our quest to discover ‘why we are so mystified by the Ancient Egyptians’ we took a visit to the Hands on History Museum in Hull. What better way to inspire the creation of our Museum than to visit one?

Our first workshop-  we discovered the gory details of mummification by carrying out the ritual on one of our class mates. 😀 We were surprised to discover that the Anciemt Egyptians didn’t realise the importance of the brain and discarded it! We stored our friends organs safely away in canopic jars for his afterlife.

To continue our learning about mummification back at school, we covered an apple in salt , just as the Ancient Egyptians covered a body in Natron and we brought it back to school to observe the changes to the face which we drew in the apple skin.

 

Our second session took us into the Museum, where we explored a range of artefacts and got up close with a real mummy and sarcophagus! It was amazing! 👍

There are replicas of items found in Tutankhamun’s tomb that were donated to the museum by Mr Reckitt for us all to enjoy. We put our historian skills to the test as we handled a range of artefacts and had to figure out as a team what the items were.

 

For our third session, we discovered how difficult it was to be a scribe in Ancient Egypt – having to learn over 700 hieroglyphs!!!!!! and we made our own papyrus which was very cool.

We had such a fantastic day, we discovered so much about the mystifying Ancient Egyptians and we can’t wait to open our Museum to share all of our fantastic learning with our friends and family.

Huge thanks to the Hands on History team 👏 from team Year Four.