We enjoyed making a diorama of a burial
chamber. First we covered the outside of a shoe box with self adhesive paper.
Then we covered the inside walls of the
box with hieroglyphics. We did this by writing a story about the first mummy using the
Archibald Font on the computer. After printing this out on gray paper we colored in some
of the shapes. We also printed out a stone pattern for the floor of our burial chambers.
We covered the entire inside of the box with the hieroglyphs and stone patterns.
Next we
made mummies, canopic jars, and other objects using modeling clay. We used white clay and
colored them with markers after everything dried.
These are the final projects.
Notice the drawing on the wall of
Anubis. He had a human body and the head of a jackal. Anubis was the son of Nephthys. His
job was to prepare the bodies of the dead to be received by Osiris.
This burial chamber has a boat to take
its master to the next world. Notice the Orisis drawing on the wall.
