This afternoon, class 3V continued their studies of Ancient Egypt by taking a trip back in time to 1922, and the discovery of the lost tomb of the boy king, Tutankhamun. The children role-played the discovery of the tomb, making field sketches of the artefacts that they found in the burial chamber (which had mysteriously appeared in the corner of the classroom). The children were asked to observe details of the artefacts and try to work out what they were made of, how they might be used, and to whom they might have belonged.
Piecing together the evidence the children decided that the artefacts - which were made of gold and other precious metals, and encrusted with jewels - must have belonged to someone very important... perhaps someone like like a Pharaoh.
They were puzzled, however, that there didn't seem to be evidence of a royal coffin in the tomb. We looked closely at some photographs taken by Howard Carter's team in 1922, and the children spotted that a patch of plaster on the wall of the chamber looked rather different to the rest of the wall. When we scraped back the patchy plaster, we discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in all its glory!
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