Ancient Egypt Comes to The Museum

With astronomy the Ancient Egyptians were able to tell the day and when the flooding of the Nile would come. It also helped them to plan for the floods like which crop they were going to plant. We still use astronomy today for similar reasons as they did.  We are able to tell the day and seasons by the location of the stars. 

The museum will have a large poster of the constellations.

Creating hieroglyphics helped them to record their history. Scribes would write down important events and their stories of their gods and pharaohs.

The museum will have a few ancient tablets that have hieroglyphics.

Egyptians made the first type of paper known as papyrus. It was made from the papyrus plant and made into tiny strips that were then laid into a cross pattern and then beat with a mallet until it was flat.

The museum will have a piece of papyrus once made by the egyptians and a live papyrus plant.

The Egyptians were great at math and engineering. They built giant structures known as pyramids they also built the Sphinx it has the head of a pharaoh and the body of a lion. Pyramids were tombs to bury important people

The museum will have mini models of a few pyramids.

Egyptians learned to preserve bodies through mummification. They would take out their insides but leave the heart as they believed in after life and thought it was the center of thinking.They would bury important people in the pyramids after mummification.

The museum will have a real mummy on display.