The god Minerva: A Roman temple from the forum in Ostia, near Rome. It was probably dedicated to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva. Is Minerva the same as Athena? Minerva was Jupiter's daughter [...]
A homemade oil lamp You can make your own oil lamp at home very easily. Buy any ordinary mushroom for eating. Break off the mushroom's stem and let it dry [...]
Ancient Egypt art project: What would you look like in Egyptian art? Egyptian sculptors wanted to show what people were really like inside, not just what they looked like on [...]
Pyramid project: building a sand pyramid A pyramid project Ancient Egyptian pharaohs, like Mayan lords, built pyramids because they're a pretty easy shape to build. Pyramids are especially easy to [...]
History of Straw: loose straw in a pile What is straw made of? Straw is the dried stalks of tall grasses like wheat, millet or barley. After people harvested the [...]
Molded bricks form an archer at ancient Susa, in Iran If you're a teacher, parent, or day camp counselor thinking of spending a week or so on ancient West Asia [...]
Siege of Nineveh When the Assyrian kings of what is now Iraq and Syria (ancient Mesopotamia) built their great palaces in the 700s and 600s BC, artists carved long stories [...]
Mesopotamian plate, made by kids at Laurelhurst School, Portland Oregon Mesopotamia is where the pottery wheel was invented West Asia was not the first place on earth where people began [...]
Cuneiform tablet, made by kids at Laurelhurst School, Portland Oregon About 3500 BC, people in West Asia began to use writing. Because nobody had invented paper yet, these people wrote [...]
Molded bricks project: A bull from the Ishtar Gate, Babylon (600s BC) Why molded bricks? Architects in ancient Mesopotamia (West Asia) didn't have much good stone to carve, but they [...]
