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Ancient Egypt: Explore the Nile, Pyramids and Mummies

Ancient Egypt: Explore the Nile, Pyramids and Mummies

Learn how Ancient Egypt grew beside the Nile and where the first civilizations began, then build a pyramid, make a mummy and read hieroglyphs.

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What you'll learn

  • Where Sumer, Egypt, the Indus Valley and the Shang Dynasty grew up
  • How BC dates work: a bigger number means longer ago
  • Why the Nile's yearly flood and black silt helped farmers
  • What pharaohs did and why pyramids were built as tombs
  • The steps of mummification, including canopic jars and natron salt
  • How hieroglyphs use picture and sound signs, and what a cartouche is

Chapter by chapter

  1. Where the first civilizations began: rivers and cities Free to try

    Years 3–6 history · 1

  2. When the first civilizations began: a BC timeline

    Years 3–6 history · 1

  3. The River Nile: floods, farming and life

    Years 3–6 history · 1

  4. Pharaohs: the rulers of Ancient Egypt

    Years 3–6 history · 1

  5. Pyramids: why and how they were built

    Years 3–6 history · 1

  6. Mummies: why and how Egyptians made them

    Years 3–6 history · 1

  7. Hieroglyphs: reading Egyptian picture writing

    Years 3–6 history · 1

  8. Sphinx challenge: Ancient Egypt quiz (10 questions)

What the chapters cover in the national curriculum in England:

  1. Years 3–6 history: The achievements of the earliest civilizations – an overview of where and when the first civilizations appeared and a depth study of one of the following: Ancient Sumer; The Indus Valley; Ancient Egypt; The Shang Dynasty of Ancient China

About this adventure

Ancient Egypt Explorers is an interactive history game that teaches children aged 7–11 where and when the first civilizations began, and what the Ancient Egyptians achieved.

Guided by Miu the cat, players find the earliest civilizations on a real map and order them on a BC timeline, learning that a bigger BC number means longer ago. In Egypt they flood the Nile to see how it left fertile black mud called silt. They also sort out what a pharaoh did, pull a stone block up a pyramid ramp, and follow the embalming steps, putting organs into canopic jars and drying the body with natron salt. Finally, they decode royal names written inside a cartouche.

Every instruction is read aloud, and each chapter ends with a short quick check. A final Sphinx quiz brings everything together. The content follows the KS2 history objective on the achievements of the earliest civilizations.

Questions and answers

Why was the River Nile so important to Ancient Egypt?

The Nile gave the Egyptians water in a desert land. Every summer it flooded, and when the water went down it left rich black mud called silt, which was perfect for crops. The river also gave fish, papyrus reeds, mud for bricks and a road for boats.

How were the pyramids built?

The pyramids were built by thousands of paid, skilled workers, not by slaves. They cut stone blocks with copper tools and pulled them on wooden sledges up ramps, wetting the sand so the sledges slid more easily. The Great Pyramid, built for Pharaoh Khufu, took about 20 years.

How did the Ancient Egyptians make a mummy?

Embalmers washed the body, removed the brain and organs, and stored the organs in canopic jars, but left the heart inside. They dried the body in natron salt for about 40 days, then wrapped it in linen. The whole process took around 70 days.

What age is this Ancient Egypt game for?

It is made for children aged 7 to 11 and pitched mainly at Year 3, when most schools in England teach the earliest civilizations. Every instruction is spoken aloud and the activities use simple taps and drags, so younger readers can follow along easily.

What does the Ancient Egypt game include and how long does it take?

The game has seven narrated chapters, each with an animated introduction and a three-question quick check, followed by a ten-question Sphinx quiz. Playing everything takes about an hour, and children can start any chapter from the map and come back to it later.

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