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Before you begin: please take a moment, settle in, enjoy the image above—of me holding my baby daughter as a first-time dad, tune into the frequency of restful wonder. Now allow your mind to wander outward from the edges of that image: to the room, to the street outside, to the vast sky beyond the vast sky. Further—past the solar system, past the galaxy’s edge, past everything known—to the edge of the cosmos. And then…
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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. Photo & Video Sharing by SmugMug

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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