How about spending holidays in Ancient Egypt?

  Today is a wonderful day for learning about pyramids and hieroglyphs, so Casa de la Ciencia has a lot of little guests over.

Our visitors are boys and girls aged 3-12 on an Ancient-Egypt themed urban camp that takes place here.

The kids will decipher hieroglyphs, study the Egyptian beliefs about death and their funerary rites, and discover the fascinating architecture that survived thousands of years, come wind or weather.

The instructors tend to ask complicated questions.

                 - ¿Do you know how did egyptians write?

Little girl: - With pencils.

                  - I mean, did they use an alphabet like we do?

Little girl: - Yes, but their letters are drawings of eyes and birds.

So many answers!

After breakfast in Maria Luisa park our little explorers are back bigger and better. They seem to have met someone special...

Instructor:- Have you seen anyone in the courtyard?

Kids:- Yes! The Pharaoh!

Instructor:- Whom?

Kids:- Pharaoh "Ramesse" the second.

Instructor:- And who is he?

Little girl:- A king made of a mummy!

Instructor:-  He certainly was the king of Egypt, but wasn't a mummy until he died. Do you know how did he dress? Did he dress like me, jeans and T-shirt?

Little boy:- No, he wore a hat with a bird!

Bigger kids are in the next room, learning how to stuff... to dry an apple. How is it done? "You pour salt and bicarbonate of soda all over it, so water gets eliminated and bacteria won't have a proper environment to live and make the apple rot. Now we are going to store the apple and on Wednesday we'll see how it changed." Some boys seem to want to bite the "object of research"... don't yield to the temptation!

Write your name with hieroglyphs! Not as easy as it seems...

Now hurry up, we are making a papyrus scroll from scratch! See you later, maybe in Ancient Greece?