History

A large red granite lid of sarcophagus. There are three images of people carved into the granite, standing up. The central figure is male and protrudes from the lid, facing the viewer. His arms are crossed across his chest and he wears a beard, headpiece, and crown of feathers and horns. The two women either side of him face him and have their hands on his waist. The lid is broken on the right, and the side and the feet have been filled in in white plaster.

Teaching Activities

Read an object: Ramesses III’s coffin

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Teaching Activities

Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt

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A photograph of a small mummified cat, in brown wrappings, with little ears poking up.

Teaching Activities

Ask an Expert: Ancient Egypt and Greece

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Ancient Greek myths

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Roman “Swiss Army Knife”

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A photograph of a section of a highly sculpted marble coffin, showing a person riding a chariot as well as two centaurs, as well as people relaxing and eating all across the top.

Teaching Activities

Read an object: the Pashley sarcophagus

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A painting of Nonsuch Palace from the 17th entury, showing grass and rows of trees with people in front of the palace in the distance.

Nonsuch Palace

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A graphite drawing of a young Black man wearing a ruff. he is surrounded by embossed outlines of various people.

Vanishing Point 29 (Duyster)

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A large porcelain Chinese jar with blue decorations showing a dragon with a long body in the sky.

Dragon Jar

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The Fitzwilliam Museum Portico

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A gilded gingerbread woman stands upright in front of a the wooden mould from which she was baked.

Gilded gingerbread gentlewoman

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A photograph of a section of a highly sculpted marble coffin, showing a person riding a chariot as well as two centaurs, as well as people relaxing and eating all across the top.

Fact Sheets: Ancient Greece

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A book of medieval shet music open at two pages tat show a complicated musical score.

The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book

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A page of a medieval manuscript with a border decorated with leaves, angels and dragons.

Illuminated Manuscript

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A Village Festival

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A photograph of a small mummified cat, in brown wrappings, with little ears poking up.

Fact Sheets: Ancient Egypt

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A photograph of the Cambridge hoard: a pile of many silver pennies and nine larger gold coins.

Chesterton Lane Hoard

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Photograph of a Roman mosaic laid in a niche. The colours are blues and greens and an optical illusion is created of a window that looks out onto a scene of plants, flying birds, and one peacock perching on the ledge.

Ancient Roman Mosaic

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A photograph of a ceramic bowl made by artist Elspeth Owen.

Bowl

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Constellation Chart

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An Islamic Iznik tile with red green and blue decoration of natural forms

Iznik Tile

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A large red granite lid of sarcophagus. There are three images of people carved into the granite, standing up. The central figure is male and protrudes from the lid, facing the viewer. His arms are crossed across his chest and he wears a beard, headpiece, and crown of feathers and horns. The two women either side of him face him and have their hands on his waist. The lid is broken on the right, and the side and the feet have been filled in in white plaster.

Ramesses III

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a glass mosque lamp decorated with blue, and red calligraphy and symbols

Mosque Lamp

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Wepwawetemhat’s coffin fragment

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an oval miniature painting of Queen Elizabeth I wearing a gold dress, white ruff and jewels.

Tudor Miniatures – Queen Elizabeth I

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A mannequin dressed in a medieval suit of armour sits on a lifesize horse model, which is also dressd in armour

Armour

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A carbved wooden figure of Guanyin the God(dess) of Mercy covered in gold lacquer

A figure of Guanyin God(dess) of Mercy

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A painting showing a couple and there baby in a ship making a voyage across the sea painted by Ford Madox Brown

The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown

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A gold medal showing Queen Elizabeth I on one side , and on the other a representation of an island supposed to be England.

‘Dangers Averted’ gold medal

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A penny stamped with ' Votes for women' across the front

“Votes for Women” coin

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A painting of two identical young women, in similar smart coats and neckties. One holds a hat and the other holds a riding crop, and to the bottom left of the portrait sits a wiry-haired sighthound.

Teaching Activities

Looking at Collections

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Elizabeth Vernon

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(Parts of the) Book of the Dead of Ramose Unknown maker, Egypt 1300 BCE

The Book of the Dead of Ramose

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inner section of Pakepu's coffin, a water pourer from Thebes, showing a scarab beetle

Scarab Beetle

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Bust of Antinous

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Mummy board from the coffin set of Nespawershefyt

The coffin set of Nespawershefyt

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Caryatid from the temple of Demeter

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Cupid and Psyche

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Teaching Activities

Making an ancient Greek pot

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Pakepu’s coffin set

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Ancient Greek Pot

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On site session

Bespoke Teacher CPD

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A school class learning in the ancient Egyptian galleries, in front of the large coffin lid of King Ramesses III

On site session

Ancient Egyptian People

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A photograph of a section of a highly sculpted marble coffin, showing a person riding a chariot as well as two centaurs, as well as people relaxing and eating all across the top.

On site session

The Ancient Greeks

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Teaching Activities

In the Tomb

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