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The Death Mask of Tutankhamen.The death mask is made of 110 kg of gold inlaid

with coloured glass and semiprecious stone.

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Lesson Heading/Title

Ancient Civilisations:Lesson 1 - The Ancient Egyptians.

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CURIOSITYSo who were the Ancient Egyptiansand how do we know so much about them?

Write a list showing some of the sources of evidence wemight have which allow us to know about the Ancient

Egyptians and how they lived.

Which source of evidence did you thinkwas the most significant (important) and

why?Choose from your list the evidence that has contributedthe most to our understanding of the Ancient Egyptians.

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This object takes pride of place at the entrance to the

British Museum. Anyone know what this object is?

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Exploration -The Rosetta StoneClass Discussion: Why might a broken dull greystone weighing 760 kilograms be so important?

Who thinks it might be what is written on thestone?

In actuality what is written on the stone is alsorather boring and dull.

Rather it is that it has the same thing written 3times. Why might this be significant?

It says the same thing in 3 different languages orscripts. Why might this be significant?

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A key for unlocking anddecoding the past

Three scripts: The upper text is AncientEgyptian hieroglyphs (used by priests inEgyptian society), the middle portion

AncientDemotic script (another type ofAncient Egyptian writing, used for everydaywriting), and the lowest Ancient Greek.Because it presents essentially the sametext in all three scripts (with some minordifferences between them), it provided thekey to the modern understanding of

Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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See hand-outs

Please complete thewritten activity in class(otherwise forhomework).

Make sure you read thehand-outs and completethe homework task forLesson 3 next week.

Ensure you return thehand-outs so that theycan be glued into yourbooks.

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Discovery - Learning Outcome Understand the importance of writing as a

source of evidence in studying the past.(See Note in hand-out - Written records)

LiteracyObjectives Hieroglyphs

Text Script Decipher

Papyrus

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But how did they read it?Experts trying to read the Egyptian language

could already understand the ancient Greekscript, so they could pick out certain words.They used these words to help read the restof the message. The oval around the writing

above is called a cartouche - it shows the name'Ptolemy'. Only veryimportant people had their

names written in acartouche. This was theFirst word to be decipheredon the Rosetta Stone.

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