On Thursday 24th November Year Three visited the Oriental Museum in Durham to find out more about life and death in Ancient Egypt. Once we arrived our day was split into three parts. The first part was in the museum classroom. On each table in the classroom was a box containing real objects from Ancient Egypt. We were very lucky as we could handle and explore the objects Some of these were over 3000 years old!

The second part of our day consisted of looking at all of the valuable Egyptian objects the museum had. We looked at clothing, food, gods and burial objects. Some of us even got to dress up in linen robes.

The final part of our day was by far the best. We were amazed to discover that the museum had a mummy and sarcophagus. We learned that the mummy was a female with a prosthetic arm! Very unusual in Ancient Egypt! Although her name is unknown we enjoyed finding out all about her life through the drawings on her sarcophagus.

We had a fascinating time looking around and asking questions.