Life in Ancient Egypt

From dawn to night on the Nile, your family trades without coins, slides a giant stone on wet sand and sits on the pharaoh’s throne. Along the way they learn what Kemet, a deben and a cartouche are.

• Why Egyptians called their land Kemet, the Black Land
• How people traded without coins, using a weight called a deben
• How the star Sirius warned that the Nile flood was coming
• How wet sand helped workers drag giant stones
• What a cartouche is, and whose names went inside one