Activity 1

Gain general familiarity with objects from ancient Egypt and with the collection database.

Ask children to select an object from the photographs shown below and discuss why they have chosen it. Discuss what this object tells us about ancient Egypt. Additional questions to consider would be:

• Why do they like this object?
• Where might this object have been found (a house, a grave or both)?
• To whom might it have belonged (a man, a woman, a child or all of them)?
• How might the object have been used?

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