6th Grade Ancient Civilizations Summer Preview: Ancient Egypt

After their father's research experiment at the British Museum unleashes the Egyptian god Set, Carter and Sadie Kane embark on a dangerous journey across the globe--a quest which brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.

Twelve-year-old Theo uses arcane knowledge and her own special talent when she encounters two secret societies, one sworn to protect the world from ancient Egyptian magic and one planning to harness it to bring chaos to the world, both of which want a valuable artifact stolen from the London museum for which her parents work.

When Alex Sennefer's mother uses the Lost Spells from the Egyptian Book of the Dead to bring her son from the brink of dying, she also brings back five Death Walkers, leaving Alex and his best friend to find his mother and save the world.

Learn about the life of King Tut, his burial and the fabulous discovery of his tomb.

Describes the construction of an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, the life and various jobs of the workers, and the burial of the pharaoh.

In the Egyptian desert of thousands and thousands of cat mummies that had lain undisturbed for two millennia. How did they get there? And why were cats so important to the Egyptians? Go back in time to the beginnings of Egyptian civilization, when animal totems protected tribes. Cats, sacred animals and objects of veneration, deserved respect in burial and thus came the mummifications.