The Spirit of Ancient Egypt
- Let Cleopatra take you back over 4,500 years ago to The Old Kingdom - travel down the Nile with Pharaoh Chephren and visit a village to inspect their work and crops.
- Journey through to the New Kingdom and meet a young Pharaoh called Tutankhamen.
- Workshop length: 1 hour 30 minutes
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- Visit a time when workers were willing to please their Pharaoh by building Pyramids, a Sphinx and Obelisks.
- Invasion and turmoil occurs during the Middle Kingdom, then a new era evolves and we are introduced to some of the most powerful female Pharoahs.
- Journey through to the New Kingdom, meet a new young Pharaoh Tutankhamen and a return to the old Gods.
- Cleopatra guides us and brings the reign of the Pharaohs to an end with the invasion of Rome.
Pirates of the High Seas
- Learn Pirate fact from fiction and find out whether they really did bury treasure, walk the plank and keep parrots?
- Discover different types of pirates and hear all about the notorious female pirates.
- Workshop length: 1 hour 30 minutes
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- Travel the seas and discover the difference between Privateer, Buccaneer, Corsair, Caribbean and Chinese Pirates.
- Who did you need to fear and what did the flags signify?
- Hear about the notorious female pirates and how they escaped being hanged.
- What’s the truth about pirates burying their treasure, walking the plank and did they keep parrots?
- Could a pirate hold a respectable position in life?
- Learn about modern day pirates.
Greeks at War
- Compare Sparta and Athens to decide which city state you'd like to be part of.
- Join the 300 Spartans as they defend Thermopylae.
- See how a form of democracy started in Greece and has evolved over time.
- Workshop length: 1 hour 30 minutes
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- Why did the Greek city states run independently of each other.
- Compare Sparta and Athens to decide which city state you would like to be a part of.
- Join the 300 Spartans as they defend Thermopylae
- Help the Athenians to come up with tactics to take on the might of Xerxes and the Persian army at Marathon
- Visit the Agora and see how a form of democracy started in Greece and has evolved over time.
- Encounter the Golden Age of The Athenians and enter the Panathenaic festival to perform some of the myths and legends of the time: Pandora’s Box, Odysseus and The Cyclops, Perseus and Medusa, Theseus and the Minotaur.