Year 4 went off to the Liverpool World Museum for a day of fact finding.
The children had a tour of the amazing Ancient Egyptian collection where they saw thousands year old sarcophagus' with actual Egyptian mummies. They looked at the timeline of how the Ancient Egyptian empire came about and how important the River Nile was to the people of the cities created along the world's longest river. Then to top it off, the children performed their own mummification, learning about the ancient rituals and what the Egyptians believed happened in the afterlife. It got a bit messy! A great start to our new history topic!