Explore (scenes from the British Museum): Tomb painting of a banquet, tomb painting of a garden and pool, grain harvest, and a hunting scene. See if you can name at least 8 popular foods.
Horace Mann Middle School - First Draft 02/02/02 !
Great Sites for 6th Grade:
Museum of Fine Arts - Boston
Galleries which show the MFA Egyptian collection: Mummies, Statues and Monumental Sculpture, etc.
From Daily Life to Afterlife and Back presents clothing, ways of life shown on tomb walls and model figures
Mummies collection
Egyptian Artistic Style (What makes something look Egyptian?)
and a Timeline of Egyptian History, a Map and Teacher Resources which can be downloaded.
Mummies of Ancient Egypt - University of Michigan
All About the Afterlife includes a section on the spirit of the dead, gods of the afterlife, the world of the afterlife, and the journey to resurrection.
Ancient Egypt - British Museum collection. Each section features stories, explorations, and challenges. (Note: Several of the Challenges require Shockwave installation.)
Trades (common jobs of ancient Egypt)
and Writing
King Tut Sites and Theban Mapping Project
Carnegie Museum's Life in Ancient Egypt (with activities and lesson plans)
Nova Online Ancient Egypt Tour: Architecture - setting up an obelisk, sphynx, etc. Requires QuickTime. Has "hot science" activity . Includes Scaling the Pyramids
Ancient Egyptian Virtual Temple with links and information on history, religion and beliefs, culture and daily life, mummies, calendar, events, art, architecture, literature, music and dance, medicine, etc.
Free On-line Teacher Guides and Activities
What did the Ancient Egyptians eat?
Explore (scenes from the British Museum): Tomb painting of a banquet, tomb painting of a garden and pool, grain harvest, and a hunting scene. See if you can name at least 8 popular foods.
Sort Out and Check Out these sites:
New Mummy Finds of the Egytian-Roman Era - 1996 - Archaeological Institute of America Oasis of the Dead
The Tut Page and The Mummy Page (sound requires RealAudio)
Ancient Egypt: Student Activity Sheets [Gander Academy, Canada] Featured in Classroom Connect. These downloads are in PDF - which require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. Activities include: Prepare a menu for an Egyptian feast http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/egypt_food_menu.PDF and more.
The Egypt Game from SCORE (not very good...)
Papyrus - Papyrus Shop - Manufacturing and Samples of Art on Papyrus
Advertisement for Pharaoh - Build a Kingdom, Rule the Nile, Live Forever Game (requires shockwave and is for PC, not Mac) but has some good screenshots - fantasy
Riddle of the Sphinx Game
Mummification - Pharaonic Village
Death in Ancient Egypt - Univ. of Chicago
Virtual Reconstruction of the Horemheb Tomb in Memphis Archaeological Museum of Bologna (an advertisement for a CD; it has a short QT movie) and the Egypt Collection of the Museum of Bologna
Literature connection - The Golden Goblet by E. McGraws . An Egyptian boy struggles to reveal a hideous crime and reshape his own destiny.
Ancient Egypt Lesson Plans for Teachers (Detroit Institute for Arts) includes activities for math and science, art, language arts, social studies.
Teacher's Resource File on Ancient Egypt
Gallery of Photographs of Egypt by Dr. Beshay
Monthly Egyptian Quiz (20 pretty hard items) for a contest submitted by email. Dr. Beshay
Egypt in the Movies - King Scorpion, et al.
Quick Pages by Nick Bartel - Many photos from the Pharoanic Village in Cairo written for ESL
Links in Spanish -
Los Egipcios - Thinkquest Activities: Egipto, Historia, Piramides, Dioses, Misterios, Escritura, Nuevas investigaciónes, Galeria de imagenes
Egiptomania - Index (more for teachers than students?)
Cuscatla - limited
La Religión de los egipcios - and Dioses Egipcios
Las Matemáticas en Egipto and CienciaNet: LAS MATEMÁTICAS EN EL ANTIGUO EGIPTO
La Invención de la Escritura (includes all early writing systems of Mesopotamia, etc.)
Egiptologia - includes El Faraon, Los origenes de la civilizacion egipcia, El Panteón Egipcio, Piramides