History // Area
Ancient Egypt
Age coverage
Ages 5 to 14
Starts at age 5 // 8 topics
Starting at age 5
Your child is exploring the fascinating world of ancient Egypt — discovering pyramids and pharaohs, learning about hieroglyphics and the River Nile, and understanding how archaeologists help us learn about the past.
- Egypt, the Nile, and the Desert
Locate Egypt on a map of Africa and understand that it is a country in a very hot, dry desert, but the River Nile — the longest river in the world — flows…
Ages 5 to 7Concept - Vocabulary: ancient egypt
Know and use the key vocabulary of ancient Egypt — pharaoh, pyramid, tomb, mummy/mummification, hieroglyphs, papyrus, sarcophagus, canopic jar, natron…
Ages 5 to 9Language - Pharaohs and Tutankhamun
Know that ancient Egypt was ruled by powerful kings and queens called pharaohs, who lived in grand palaces and made the laws — and that one of the most famous…
Ages 5 to 7Concept - Pyramids and the Great Sphinx
Know that the ancient Egyptians built enormous stone pyramids as tombs for the pharaohs, that the Great Pyramid at Giza was one of the Seven Wonders of the…
Ages 5 to 7Concept - Egyptian Gods and the Afterlife
Understand that the ancient Egyptians believed in many gods and goddesses and believed that life continued after death in a wonderful afterlife — which is why…
Ages 5 to 7Concept - Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt
Describe what everyday life was like for ordinary people in ancient Egypt: farmers grew wheat and barley near the Nile, families lived in mud-brick houses…
Ages 5 to 7Concept - Hieroglyphs and Papyrus
Know that the ancient Egyptians used a special writing system called hieroglyphs — pictures and symbols that stood for sounds and words — and that they wrote on…
Ages 5 to 7Concept - Discovering Tutankhamun's Tomb
Understand that we know about ancient Egypt because archaeologists have dug up and studied objects buried in the sand for thousands of years — and that one of…
Ages 5 to 7Concept
Starts at age 7 // 8 topics
Starting at age 7
Your child is discovering the fascinating world of ancient Egypt — learning about pharaohs and pyramids, gods and mummification, hieroglyphs and daily life along the Nile River over 3,000 years of history.
- Building the Pyramids
Understand how the pyramids were built: thousands of workers moved enormous stone blocks using ramps, rollers, and sledges, the work was organised by the…
Ages 7 to 9Concept - Ancient Egypt on the Timeline
Place ancient Egypt on a timeline spanning over 3,000 years — from around 3100 BCE (unification under the first pharaoh) to 30 BCE (Roman conquest)…
Ages 7 to 9Concept - Upper and Lower Egypt
Understand that ancient Egypt was divided into Upper Egypt (the narrow river valley in the south) and Lower Egypt (the wide delta in the north), that the two…
Ages 7 to 9Concept - Egyptian Tomb Paintings and Artefacts
Use tomb paintings, artefacts, and objects from ancient Egypt as evidence to find out about daily life: Nebamun's tomb paintings show hunting and feasting…
Ages 7 to 9Concept - Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
Name and describe key Egyptian gods and goddesses: Ra the sun god who sailed across the sky each day, Osiris the ruler of the afterlife, Isis the goddess of…
Ages 7 to 9Concept - Scribes and the Rosetta Stone
Know that scribes were specially trained people who could read and write hieroglyphs, that the Rosetta Stone — a slab with the same text in three scripts — was…
Ages 7 to 9Concept - Egyptian Social Hierarchy
Describe the social structure of ancient Egypt as a pyramid-shaped hierarchy: the pharaoh at the top, then priests and nobles, followed by scribes and soldiers…
Ages 7 to 9Concept - Mummification Step by Step
Describe the step-by-step process of mummification: the body was washed, internal organs were removed and placed in canopic jars, the body was dried with natron…
Ages 7 to 9Method
Starts at age 9 // 7 topics
Starting at age 9
Your child is learning about ancient Egyptian civilization in depth — exploring how pharaohs ruled as god-kings, how the economy and society functioned, and examining Egypt's remarkable achievements in art, architecture, and science that influenced the world for thousands of years.
- Ancient Egypt's Lasting Legacy
Evaluate ancient Egypt's lasting legacy: the Egyptians developed early forms of medicine, mathematics (used to build pyramids and survey land after floods)…
Ages 9 to 11Concept - Cleopatra and the End of Egypt
Know that ancient Egypt eventually came to an end: the last pharaoh was Cleopatra VII, who allied with Rome but was defeated by Octavian (later Augustus) in 31…
Ages 9 to 11Concept - Egyptian Art and Architecture
Analyse Egyptian art and architecture: understand that Egyptian paintings followed strict conventions (people shown from the side with eyes from the front, size…
Ages 9 to 11Concept - Egyptian Timelines and Maps
Read and construct historical timelines — place Ancient Egyptian periods, pharaohs, and key events on a timeline relative to each other and to the present day…
Ages 9 to 10Representation - Egyptian Trade and Economy
Understand that ancient Egypt had a thriving economy based on farming surplus, trade, and specialised labour: the Nile's fertile soil produced enough food to…
Ages 9 to 11Concept - Judgement of the Dead
Describe the Egyptian belief in the judgement of the dead: after death, the heart was weighed against the feather of Ma'at in the Hall of Judgement, with Anubis…
Ages 9 to 11Concept - The Pharaoh as Living God
Understand that the pharaoh was not just a ruler but was believed to be a living god — the intermediary between the gods and the people — and that the concept…
Ages 9 to 11Concept
Starts at age 10 // 1 topic
Starting at age 10
- Modern Archaeology and Egyptian Ethics
Understand that modern Egyptologists use advanced technologies — CT scanning of mummies, satellite imagery to find buried structures, DNA analysis — alongside…
Ages 10 to 12Thinking skill
Starts at age 11 // 2 topics
Starting at age 11
- Historical Sources on Ancient Egypt
Explain how knowledge of ancient Egypt is built from multiple source types — inscriptions, papyri, artefacts, and physical remains — and critically evaluate…
Ages 11 to 13Thinking skill - Egyptian Maths and Engineering
Describe the Egyptian achievement in mathematics and engineering: the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus shows calculations of area, volume, and fractions; the…
Ages 11 to 13Concept
Starts at age 12 // 2 topics
Starting at age 12
- Who Really Built the Pyramids
Analyse who built the pyramids and why, evaluating the evidence against the alien-builder myth and the slave-labour myth: archaeological evidence from worker…
Ages 12 to 14Thinking skill - Egypt and Its Neighbours
Examine Egypt's relationships with neighbouring civilisations: trade networks reaching Nubia, the Levant, and Punt; the Hyksos invasion and the introduction of…
Ages 12 to 13Concept
Starts at age 13 // 1 topic
Starting at age 13
- Fall of Ancient Egyptian Civilisation
Trace the end of ancient Egyptian civilisation through its successive conquests — Assyrian, Persian, Macedonian (Alexander the Great), and finally Roman — and…
Ages 13 to 14Concept