Collection No. 19 of 24

Education, knowledge and museums

Schools, libraries, archives, museums and the archaeologists who dig up the past.

3 subjects · 5 lessons · 5 objects · 11 events

The thread through time

Everything in this drawer at its date. Objects above the line, lessons and events below. Each step to the right is ten times closer to today.

300,000 years ago10,0003,0001,000100nowThe town that built the pyramidsAn inscribed oracle boneAsking the ancestorsThe Shang dynasty endsThe Rosetta StoneReading the Rosetta StoneWho came after Rome?The Sutton Hoo helmetThe ship in the fieldThe Great Pyramid, photographed in 1849The pyramids at Giza, photographed in the 1860s

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Lessons

  1. The town that built the pyramidsWho actually built the pyramids at Giza?Ancient Egypt · About 2550 BC to 2470 BC
  2. Reading the Rosetta StoneHow did anyone learn to read hieroglyphs again?Ancient Egypt · 196 BC, and 1799 to 1822
  3. Asking the ancestorsHow did the Shang kings ask questions of the dead, and why does it matter that they wrote the answers down?Shang China · About 1254 to 1041 BC; found again from 1899
  4. Who came after Rome?Who were the Anglo-Saxons, and how did they live?Anglo-Saxon Britain · About AD 410 to 650
  5. The ship in the fieldWhat does Sutton Hoo tell us about Anglo-Saxon kings?Anglo-Saxon Britain · About AD 625, dug 1938 to 1939

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