EGYPTOLOGY

WIN Class Winter/Spring 2012

Course Syllabus

• Mummies• Pyramids• Novel• Movies• Hieroglyphs

• Egyptian Religion/Mythology• Pharaohs• Video Games• Sphinx• Egyptian Art

Mummies• Organ Removal• Embalming• Canopic Jars• Bandage Wrapping• Sarcophagus

Chicken Mummies

Pyramids

• How Many• Giza Pyramids• Why Build Them• Who Built Them• How They were Built

Movies

Hieroglyphs• Number• Meaning• How to read them• Rosetta Stone

Pharaohs

• King Tut• Valley of the Kings• Cleopatra• Nefertiti• Ramses II• Menes

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Nefertiti_30-01-2006.jpg

Egyptian Religion/Mythology

• Osiris • Isis • Horus• Seth • Anubus

Video Games

Sphinx

• Discovery• Who & Why• Truth of the missing

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Egyptian Art

• Paintings• Sculptures• Pottery

Possible Field Trip?Mummies of the World

• http://mummies.discoveryplace.org/about-the-exhibit

• $15-leave after lunch, picked up approx. 6:30

“Fine Print”

• Semester Only• FUN but also WORK-you will earn a GRADE• Cost $20 (Chicken Mummy & Pyramid Kit)