World History: Mummy of Hornedjitef
Lesson Plans and Worksheets
Lesson one: Sources
- Lesson plan: Investigating sources - artefacts
- Worksheet: Source analysis
- Worksheet: Dürer's spot the difference
- Worksheet: Animal pictionary
- Worksheet: Emperor Augustus
Lesson two: World trade
- Lesson plan: Causation - exploration and world trade
- Worksheet: Source analysis
- Worksheet: Biographies
- Worksheet: Pirate treasure
Lesson three: Chronology
- Lesson plan: Chronology
- Worksheet: Definitions of time
- Worksheet: News report
- Worksheet: Object cards
- Worksheet: Odd one out
Lesson Four: Local history
Activities
Pictures
![This is the mummy mask of Hornedjitef, who was a priest at the Temple of Amun at Karnek. The mask is not a picture of Hornedjotef in life but shows him as a god in the afterlife. [© Trustees of the British Museum]](http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/schools/primaryhistory/images/worldhistory/mummy/mask_of_hornedjitef.jpg "Mummy mask of Hornedjitef")
![Around the brow of the mask is a magic spell, put there to make sure that the head would not be separated from the body after death. [© Trustees of the British Museum]](http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/schools/primaryhistory/images/worldhistory/mummy/mask_of_hornedjitef_side.jpg "Mummy mask of Hornedjitef (side)")
![The Ancient Egyptians made mummies of dead bodies to preserve them and make sure that a person's spirit or 'ba' moved on into the afterlife. The mummies were then put into a coffin and buried in a tomb. [© Trustees of the British Museum]](http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/schools/primaryhistory/images/worldhistory/mummy/hornedjitef_coffin.jpg "Hornedjitef's Coffin")
![This is the inner coffin of the priest Hornedjitef. In Ancient Egypt, priests were the only people, apart from the king, allowed into temples to carry out sacred rituals (religious ceremonies) every day. [© Trustees of the British Museum]](http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/schools/primaryhistory/images/worldhistory/mummy/hornedjitef_coffin_close.jpg "Hornedjitef's Coffin (detail)")
Videos
More to Explore
Links in the BBC
- A History of the World: Mummy of Hornedjitef
- A History of the World: Listen to the podcasts
- CBBC: Relic - Guardians of the Museum game
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