Egyptian Exploration: Hieroglyphs and Egyptian Gods

CT and I designed our lesson on ancient Egypt around a visit to the Walters Art Museum's Egyptian collection.

We read from THE STORY OF THE WORLD, "The First Writing" about hieroglyphs and cuneiform, and how the Sumerians developed writing on clay, and the Egyptians created portability by developing papyrus. Luu Li suggested we make paper. So this will be a later project.

CT chose some Egyptian gods including Nut, Geb, Osiris, Isis, Horus and Anubis, and we went on a hunt to find the corresponding hieroglyphs.

Later we visited with a museum conservator as she worked on preservation of some ancient pieces from Indonesia.

CT wanted to drop by the "Chamber of Wonders", a seventeenth-century nobleman's study filled with prized specimens of art and nature.

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