A backgammon board made by kids at Laurelhurst School, Portland Oregon Beginning about 3000 BC, backgammon was one of the most popular games in ancient Mesopotamia and elsewhere in West [...]
Gladiators mosaic If you're a teacher, parent, or day camp counselor thinking of spending a week or so on ancient Rome, here's some ideas for Roman activities other people have [...]
Roman helmet, from the kids at Laurelhurst School, Portland, Oregon Although the Romans did many other things besides fight battles, certainly one of their greatest achievements was the world's first [...]
A wax tablet from ancient Rome What were wax tablets used for? People in ancient Greece, in the Roman Empire, and in medieval Europe often used wax tablets to write [...]
Or you can get this lovely set of wooden blocks to build a Colosseum with A lot of people seem to want to build models of the Roman Colosseum for [...]
An easy way to weave with construction paper The best way to understand weaving is to weave something for yourself. You can do this with just strips of paper. Take a piece [...]
Aztec woman spinning with a supported spindle (Codex Mendoza, 1520s AD) If you want to check out spinning for yourself, start by spinning some long grass on your own leg. [...]
Khoisan painting at Springfontein, Zimbabwe Khoisan rock art was a way for artists in southern Africa to show their dreams and ideas about how the world worked, or should work. [...]
Egyptian relief carving of a man leading a bull: the background has been cut away Egyptian artists used different carving techniques in the Old Kingdom (about 3000-2000 BC) than they [...]
Papyrus project - Or you can buy real handmade Egyptian papyrus from Amazon - just click! It's actually pretty easy to make papyrus. You need a lot of river reeds [...]
