Explore everyday life and death in Ancient times

Learn the secrets that Ta-Sedgemet can tell us about life and death in Ancient Egypt.

What do we know about life in Ancient times in Mesopotamia or Harappa? How do we know this? How did Vikings iron their clothes and what did Ancient Egyptians eat with their beer?

Archaeologists’ work is key to much of what we display at the museum and much of what we know about communities in the past. This programme puts learners into the role of archaeologists.  As such they learn to carefully examine  the museum's handling collection of objects and replicas from a range of different civilisations and to exercise their curiosity, knowledge and problem solving.

This programme is assisted by LEOTC, funded by the Ministry of Education.

Related Museum Resources

New resources are currently in production for this programme.

Galleries:  Ancient Worlds

Other Related Resources

The Children's University of Manchester

A great collection of fun, educational interactive Egyptology activities Explore Ancient Egypt Visual Timeline of Ancient Egypt  Make a Mummy  Ancient Egyptian Gods  Hieroglyphs  Ancient Egyptian Numbers and Maths

Detroit Institute of Arts

Multi-Curricular Egypt-Related Activities

The British Museum

Another excellent collection of Egyptology interactive activities, including an easy to play game of Senet.  Each link has background information and an interactive activity to reinforce the learning.  Everyday Life - Senet Hieroglyphs Geography and Resources  Beliefs and Gods  Underworld and Mummification Pharaohs Pyramids Temples Timeline Jobs & Trades

National Geographic Kids: Interactive Adventures

Tomb of the Unknown Mummy

 Useful Links

Neferchichi' Tomb Useful resources for teaching, including free Egypt clip art

Royal Ontario Museum A huge amount of useful information on various facets of Ancient Egyptian life

The Ancient Egypt Site The Ancient Egypt Site is a constantly evolving interactive book about the history, language, monuments and culture of Ancient Egypt.  It features an excellent A-Z encyclopaedia

Kidipede - Ancient Egypt for Kids Online Encyclopaedia for children

Papyrus - a lot of information about papyrus as well as some helpful resources.