Each mini-museum contains a teacher's guide and about one dozen artifact reproduction that your students' can personally handle and examine.

Please call the Oriental Museum at 773-702-9507 at least two weeks in advance.  A fee of $20.00 is charged for processing.  The artifacts may be examined for two weeks.
 

 
Slides and videos are also available.
 
 
 
 
 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Objects                                       II.  Overhead Transparencies
 
1)   Ushebti                                                                               Scenes from Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt
 
2)     Statue of the Godess Bastet                                            a)    Market Scene
 
3)     Rosetta Stone                                                                   b)   A Boat Carrying Cargo Down the Nile
 
4)     Scarab                                                                               c)   An Egyptian Jeweller Stringing a Necklace

5)     Papyrus                                                                             d)  A Nobleman's House and Garden

6)     Stamp Set with 2 Ink Pads                                                e)  Sculptors Finishing a Colossal Statue of a King

7)     Painted Pot Sherd                                                        f)  Gathering Reeds from the Banks of the Nile River

8)     Egyptian Costume                                                             g)  A Sculptor at Work
    
9)     Mummy Beads                                                                   h)  Making Bricks

10)   Miniature Statue of a Pharaoh's Head                              i)   Artists Making Ushebtis and a Canopic Jar

11)   Ankh                                                                              j)   An Egyptian Feast with Musicians and Dancers

12)   Hippo Figurine
 
 

III.  Classroom Activities

Lesson plans and instruction sheets for hands-on projects related to the ojects in this load box.
 

IV.   Descriptive Cards

Laminated cards describing the reproduction objects in this loan box.

V.     Storybooks

Gift of the Nile

Senefer:  A Young Genius in Old Egypt
 

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