Tutankhamun is How old do you sometimes called “The think he was Egypt at Boy King” or King Tut. ? when he died? Highclere Can you imagine looking through The Discovery the small opening into a vast tomb with all the Lord Carnarvon lived at undiscovered Highclere Castle and was treasures? very interested in Egypt and archaeology. He worked for some 15 years with Howard Carter, an Egyptologist. Nearly 100 years ago, together they Most pharaohs were buried Tutankhamun’s tomb contained discovered a famous tomb. with things that the ancient a vast number of treasures Egyptians thought would including boxes of food, boats, be useful in the afterlife. clothes, games, jewellery, linens and musical instruments. The cellars of Highclere Do you know Castle were once the world whose tomb they How old was the young found? Lord prince when he became of footman, chefs, butlers, valets and maids. Following ? Carnarvon asked the King of Egypt? Howard Carter ? Who was his father? WWII the cellars were what he could see through the used less as circumstances hole in the door of the tomb, Amongst changed. In 2008, the what was his response? the tomb current Lord and Lady artefacts Carnarvon converted this area into The Egyptian For more facts FUN FACT! they are said to Exhibition celebrating the check out the Above is a cartouche of a very have found 145 link between Highclere instagram famous Queen, Tutankhamun’s Castle and discovery of @highclere_castle step mother, do you know her loincloths (pairs of Tutankhamun’s tomb name? pants)! The Discovery - Page 4 The Discovery - Page 1 Did you know that music Lord Carnarvon’s dog died at Highclere, at exactly the played an important part same time that her owner died in Cairo. Fill in this puzzle in Egyptian life? Scenes with the words below to reveal her name in the highlighted have been carved showing boxes. groups of people playing instruments together. M In King Tut’s tomb , he had E a Sistrum (a similar one is R ? shown here). Can you guess how it was played? - Archaeology C - Hieroglyphs an yo - Mask u n am e ds - Mummies an go ? d c ese - Artefacts olour in th Tutankhamun’s famous gold funeral mask is made with a lot of gold! ? How much do you think it weighs? The Discovery - Page 2 The Discovery - Page 3 Mummies Many wealthy Egyptians would Most of Egypt at make their body ready for the afterlife in a process called the organs mummification. They believed were Highclere preserved FUN that the body was resurrected in FACT! The Valley of the Kings the afterlife so it needed to be for the preserved after they had died. afterlife however the This took around 70 days from brain was not believed Tutankhamun’s tomb Mediterranean Sea start to finish. How do you think to be important so the was found in the you would do it? embalmers removed Valley of the Kings. 1 Cairo it through the nostrils What are the Can you cut out the different 2 stages and put them in the with a large hook. colloquial names for the other two correct order to mummify EGYPT ? your chosen subject? ? valleys? The Great Sphinx of A. The body was washed B. The body was put into a Red Sea Giza is a large statue of 3 Thebes and cleansed. sarcophagus (stone coffin) a mythical creature with N 4 a head of the human The River Nile C. All of the organs were D. The body was wrapped and the body of a lion. removed - apart from the in strands of linen and The Great Pyramid of heart. covered in a shroud Giza is the last of the seven wonders of the E. After 40 - 50 days the F. The body was stuffed to ancient world. natron was removed and the keep the shape. Can you match the - The Temple of Ramesses III body then stuffed with linen points on the map to - The Great Sphinx of Giza or sawdust. the following places? - The Valley of the Kings ? - The Great Pyramid of Giza G. The body was dried by The Great Pyramid of Giza is covering it with a substance called natron which is similar 139m high! The Great Sphinx is to salt, and dries the body. 20m high. How tall are you in FUN FACT! comparison? The Valley of the Kings - Page 4 The Valley of the Kings - Page 1 Hieroglyphs were Later in Ancient Egypt, Hieroglyphs associated with temples hieratic and then demotic The ancient Egyptian and tombs meaning that scripts were used to record, language is known from examples were frequently write contracts and calculate texts spanning 4000 years. carved into stone, leading information. These tended The development of the to many examples being to be recorded on linen, language is grouped into preserved for future wooden boards and papyrus three periods: Old Egyptian, generations to view. which rarely survived. Middle Egyptian and Late This led to hieroglyphs Egyptian. The large time becoming the most well span means that it would known of the Egyptian have been difficult for early texts. Egyptians to understand the late Egyptian language just What is Papyrus? as Anglo Saxon ‘English’ What was it used would be challenging for us ? for? to understand today. It wasn’t until The Rosetta Stone was discovered ‘Hieroglyph’ is that we could begin to actually a Greek understand hieroglyphs. Rosetta Stone word meaning This stone was key ‘sacred carving’. because it repeated the What type of stone FUN FACT! same information in three was the Rosetta stone different scripts: Egyptian made from? Why hieroglyphs, Demotic; ? is the stone named Can you write your name in Hieroglyphs using and Greek. Rosetta? Where is it the guide above? Writing your name in a cartouche now displayed? ? means you are a very important person! The first step in understanding hieroglyphs came from Englishman, Thomas Young, who realised that cartouches represented important names and deduced they had to be spelt phonetically. The French Linguist, Jean-François Champollion, took the understanding further realising that hieroglyphs were a writing system consisting of semantic signs, phonetic signs and pictographs. The Valley of the Kings - Page 2 The Valley of the Kings - Page 3.