Author: Stephen Greaves

As part of our Ancient Egypt project we mummified some fish!

We took out the fish’s internal organs but put the heart back in (the heart was considered very important to the Ancient Egyptians).

The Egyptians washed the bodies of the dead in water from the River Nile.

Like the Ancient Egyptians, we removed the brain with a metal hook.

We packed the body with salt to preserve it.

We visited the British Museum to look at some ancient artefacts. We saw the Rosetta Stone, a 5,000-year-old sand-dried mummy, wall paintings from Nebamun’s tomb and sculptures of the pharaoh Ramesses II!