TOG Year 1

Today we explored the ancient Egyptian art of mummifying. We started our study with a reading of Aliki’s Mummies Made in Egypt, a thorough introduction to the process of embalming a body and the Ancient Egyptian beliefs on the afterlife, and then, we made our own mummies. **WARNING** The following images may be disturbing to…

Our future engineer – or maybe, architect – hard at work In one day we managed to accomplish something that took thousands of Ancient Egyptians twenty years to do: we built a pyramid… actually two! Of course, our pyramids were not 200-foot tall structures built with 4,000 pound stone bricks, but six-inch high sugar cube…