On Monday the 30th January I went to the British Museum in London to learn a bit more about Ancient Egypt. We travelled there by coach and it was a long journey to get there. When I arrived at the museum I felt very excited. We dropped our lunch off and got into our groups.
A few people went to a workshop; I went to the galleries to see some Ancient Egyptian artefacts and the Rosetta Stone. It was bigger than I expected and then we moved on to see some more objects. One of my favourite things was a statue with a lion’s head, half the body was a horse and half was an eagle. It also had lion’s feet. I liked this because it was unusual and very interesting and strange.
Then we went to floor three to complete our worksheets and see some of the mummies, shabtis and a man who was preserved in the sand. His name was Ginger because he still had red hair left. He was all curled up in the sand and you could see some of his possessions. For example, lots of cooking pots and his necklace.
After lunch we went to a workshop, which was very exciting, as we got to hold very ancient pots, stones and jewellery, some of which were 4ooo years old. The oldest artefact was the most damaged and it had cracks in it.
Later in the afternoon, we went to the gift shop and I bought a few things: a feather pen and an Egyptian token that had hieroglyphics on it. The sign meant wise.
My favourite part of the day was looking at Ginger in a glass box because he looked like a very well preserved body and I could imagine him in his life living in Egypt.