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| I would like to thank Mrs. Mary Anne Shafer and all the sixth graders of Peters Elementary School for inviting me to their school, for a day of fun and learning. Below are some of the children's drawings. I enjoy them very much. I hope you will too. Who knows, these children may be the Artists, or even the Egyptologists of tomorrow. |
"This picture shows an ancient Egyptian god. It has the
head and body of a hippopotamus, mouth and back of a crocodile, and
the chest of a human and paws of a lion, plus a pregnant woman's body
shape." |
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"We have a poster of a pharaoh and I wanted to draw it. I
started liking Egypt when I did a report on how they took their brain
out through the nose during the mummification process." |
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"Scarabs are dung beetles. Like some other dung beetles,
they have a peculiar habit of breeding in dung. They sometimes roll
this dung into small pellets, which they roll to their underground
burrows to be used as larval food. Eggs are laid in the pellets.
Egyptians regarded the pellets as symbols of the world, and believed
that projections on the heads of the beetles were emblems of the rays
of the sun." |
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"Anubis is the god of mummification. The Egyptians
believed he watched over the mummies. He had the head of a
jackal." |
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"My picture is about the clothes the Egyptians wore. They
wore light cloths because it was so hot in Egypt. These light colored
clothes reflected the heat so they wouldn't get too hot." |
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"This is a picture of a pyramid complex. When the pharaoh
died he was buried in the bigger pyramid of the complex; the queen
would be buried in the smaller pyramid. The tomb was to prevent the
body and treasure from being stolen." |
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"This picture represents the one eye of Horus. This symbol
was used on a lot of jewelry. Horus was an Egyptian god who fought to
get revenge for his father's death." |
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"I like to draw funny things, like some of the pictures
you drew. Well, I like Coke so I drew a can of soda. I like food too,
so I made a food stand." |
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