Thursday, February 16, 2012

Field trip to the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago

Mesopotamia

Assyrian statue that would have appeared as you entered the thrown room of King Sargon.

Babylonia: Code of Hammurabi!!!

Egypt

Egypt: canopic jars

Mummy of a small child

Amulets: charms that were wrapped into the mummy's linen strips.

Directions for wrapping the amulets into the mummy

More amulets

Workshops around the pyramids, preparing food and things for the mummy

A sarcophagus

Running off their steam through the campus at University of Chicago

A little tree sitting.

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