Everything you wanted to ask about ancient Egypt (provided you’re a 9-year-old) | History Hotline

Deep within the heart of the British Museum is a strange artefact, the History Hotline - a telephone that gives inquisitive children direct access to British Museum curators, so they can have all their burning questions about history answered by the experts. This week the History Hotline appeared on curator and Egyptologist Kelly Accetta Crowe's desk, which means some of you must be studying ancient Egypt!
This video was made to work with the KS2 UK school syllabus as a resource for teaching children between 6 and 12-years-of-age about ancient Egypt.
If you want to find out even more about ancient Egypt our exhibition Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt is on until February 19 2023
Find out more here: shorturl.at/bmFPT
Children under 16 get free entry when accompanied by an adult.
00:49 Introducing ancient Egypt
1:51 What would you find inside a pyramid?
3:38 What happened to ordinary people when they died?
4:57 Who started mummification and what herbs did they use to mummify bodies?
6:48 How do you read hieroglyphs?
9:20 What was written on the canopic jars?
11:06 What were the bandages made of?
12:12 Why did Anubis have a jackal head?

[@britishmuseum]

So in case you hadn't guessed, we made this video for school groups. However, by the end of making it we (Roux and Nick) had learned so much that we didn't know about ancient Egypt that we thought you, our admittedly much older than 9-year-old subscribers might also get something out of it too. This is definitely a bit of an experiment, so if you have any thoughts (especially if you have kids or are an educator) please let us know.

[@Atollic]

As someone who loves history, and with family who loves it too, my nephew may get a kick out of this!! Thank you very much for inspiring future generations of Egyptologists, BM!

[@yootube6522]

We are grown-ups and we enjoyed it! Please make more!

[@thebratqueen]

This was great for all ages. Thank you for sharing it! I'd certainly love to see more videos like this.

[@bichitramohanty8399]

#chorbazar

[@elihinze3161]

This made my inner ancient-egypt-obsessed-9-year-old-self squeal with delight

[@peterthedoodler8435]

It may have been made for children but as an old 71 year old I really enjoyed it.

[@craigcollings5568]

Yes, me too. That was cool.

[@annemills6022]

Roux videos are the best!! I can't wait for next episode of the Sherbourne cartonnage restoration

[@censusgary]

Good questions, and good answers. Well done, British Museum!

[@js0988]

Getting kids interested in science is one of the most important thing anyone could ever do. Keep up the great work.

[@palabrasmagicas]

Well done, Kelly :) Entertaining and educational,for kids, and for adults like myself! :)

[@KristyRadio]

This is GREAT!!! Wonderful job Kelly and the BM team!!! I hope this is the start of a series with many episodes!!

[@vebetka8333]

Great for kids of all ages 👏

[@samgoleman7089]

This video was really great Thank you very much.

[@ike0072]

great segment. great idea. keep going.

[@TheSaneHatter]

Here's MY question: if someone accidentally damages an image of the Goddess of healing, have they become a Serket Breaker?

[@YarX0]

This is brilliant 👏

[@orzelgryf]

I would watch a Netflix series of this....

[@johnlawson2984]

Well done! 😊

[@Zeitgeist329]

Great job and Great expert.

[@nahte123]

A fine use of Papyrus font here.

[@antoinesteeghs7313]

❤ well done this is fun also for kids of 60

[@dianajohnson83]

Guest appearance by the Gaier Anderson cat!

[@horacio64]

that cat on the table which country was stealed from ?

[@cipherklosenuf9242]

She hangs up on the kid…hm? It might be fun to include a clip of the student and represent a diversity of kids. The images that accompany the explanations are excellent…simple and relevant…that takes a lot of work. It seems like random trivia. This production will be more likely to be used by teachers if it serves a purpose…like creating interest for a museum visit. I don’t know, but purpose can be made fun too. Great effort! Really, I learned too! I wish you much success…a lot of work went into this and it seems very loving.

[@K-FOREST_Original]

Hi! How are you? Again, it's a new week/Monday. COVID-19, Ukraine, Turkiye, and Syria are still in progress. I hope it will be resolved in a positive direction as soon as possible. And I wish you good health and good things for the rest of the week. Thank you very much.

[@rebeccan7276]

Why does the British Museum have the Rosetta Stone and the museum at Giza has to display only a picture of it, and plaque stating its in Britain? When British forces defeated the French in Egypt, the stone and over a dozen other antiquities were handed over to the British under the terms of an 1801 surrender deal between the generals of the two sides. It has remained in the British Museum since. Why is the British Museum not focused on British artifacts? You should return what was wrongfully taken or support those countries to be able to study and display their own heritage if it is of such importance to Britain. This museum is part of an ongoing heritage of pillaging the rest of the nations of this world for curios.

[@starcapture3040]

Can we have an episode about how the coniform were deciphered

[@fabiansw8]

Scp-7981 The history hotline

[@2077jimbo]

Stop hanging up on the kids!

[@britishmuseum]

I was waiting for this comment - it's a peculiarity of the History Hotline. Once the question has been asked, the signal cuts out. Promise Kelly has a much politer etiquette when having a traditional phone conversation.

[@damianborkowski7429]

@@britishmuseum Bit from another barrel but thank you for not disabling comments under a "kids" video. Happy to see The British Museum is into dialogue.

[@duran9664]

😱How can a liver is protected by ISIS⁉️😮‍💨

[@Zapatero078]

if they could take the pyramids they would lol 😂

[@shailenderkumar3509]

here you can find that things which was looted by british from other country

[@XXXTENTAClON227]

Pay for it Even wars cost money, you have to reimburse

[@shailenderkumar3509]

@@XXXTENTAClON227 see always talks about loot, and now india is atamnirbhar bharat

[@thehube151]

Here’s my question- why don’t you give all the treasures you stole (and hide 90+% away in warehouses) back to the countries you colonized? Doesn’t that legacy make you feel like horrible people?

[@XXXTENTAClON227]

Do you think the Louvre should return every single foreign piece of art too? They didn’t colonize on even ground, they colonized as an industrial nation, the only country in the world before Europe was the only continent in the world to have industrialization. You make it sound like one country was evil while one was peaceful. They were both as power hungry as one another, but one was smarter and had more luck.

[@BobbyBermuda1986]

Question: when will y'all return all the looted and stolen artifacts you're stubbornly holding onto?

[@KarlBunker]

Return to whom? The original owners are pretty much dead.

[@PowerYoutuberViewer]

When the Pharohs return and ask

[@Realkeepa-et9vo]

@@PowerKZbinrViewer So I can just take Stonehenge and rebuild it in Egypt?

[@Rynewulf]

Theyre all rented out by the Egyptian government, dumb dumb

[@PowerYoutuberViewer]

@@Realkeepa-et9vo You can try :^)

[@haumakaa]

Get back the Moai to Rapa Nui, you pompous thieves!🗿

[@catcameron2495]

As our local Head Librarian often says, "Fun and informative." She's like Amelia Peabody's Great-Great-Granddaughter. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Peabody_series

[@insertnameatgmaildotcom]

It’s nice to teach kids about History, but don’t teach them that thievery and grand larceny is good.