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In this scenario students investigate the eruption of Mount Vesuvius by reading eyewitness accounts and archaeological presentations. From the evidence they develop chronologies, reconstruct the final moments of Herculaneum and Pompeii and of individual victims, survey the variety of physical remains of the cities and historic conclusions that can be drawn. Students learn enough about the events of A.D. 79 and their archaeological recovery that they are able to put themselves into a fictional account of the experience. As a context for their research, students are given the following situations from which they choose one:

In 1907, an archaeological team led by Thomas M. Davis discovered an intriguing pit in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. The pit was found to contain a number of artifacts, but none were particularly valuable (i.e., were not golden treasures and the like) and were generally regarded as uninteresting. It would be Howard Carter who would be the one to find "wonderful things" in the tomb of King Tut. But, did he unearth more?

National Geographic presents Herod's Lost Tomb is an exciting hidden-object game that takes you on an archeological journey of King Herod the Great. It gives players an opportunity to experience an exciting, real-life archaeological adventure!

utankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation is ambitious in its scope but simple in its aims: to make the complete records of Howard Carter's excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun available on these web pages. It is astonishing, but no longer acceptable, that some eighty years and thousands of articles, hundreds of books, and dozens of exhibitions after the discovery of the tomb, this most famous event in the history of Egyptian archaeology has not yet been fully published. The documentation is presented in its original form and all, scholars, interested members of the public and school students, can consult it. We hope that this will help bring the knowledge and love of ancient Egypt to everybody.

Cairo: The city and other archaeological treasures in Northern Egypt are under serious threat from forces above the ground, but perhaps even more from below

Recently, there have been many interesting archaeological finds around the world, suggesting a much longer human history than was previously thought possible. Archaeologists in Indonesia unearthed the remains and tools of hominids that are being referred to in the media as "hobbits." This reference is due, in part, to the fact that, among their tiny remains, diggers discovered even tinier arrowheads, not much larger than a fingertip.\n\nInitially, these "hobbits" were thought to have lived 750,000 years ago, but almost immediately, their age was amended to 1.2 million years ago.\n\nNow, as reported in this article from Planetgreen.com, a 9 year-old youngster nearly stubbed his toe on the skull of a human ancestor that lived 2 million years ago! This new find puts humankind squarely in the Pleistocene era, a period marked by repeated glaciation followed by rapid warming of the Earth's surface.\n\nI pose the following hypothesis. I believe that there are things which humankind may have experienced long ago, things which were tumultuous and traumatic. Because of the upheaval caused by these events, they were passed along at an almost biologic level of understanding. For example, rapid thawing of massive amounts of ice would almost certainly have led to huge floods in at least some parts of the world. To these 2 million year-old ancestors of ours, or those yet to be discovered, these huge floods would have been terrifying to behold.\n\nCould this be why several seemingly disparate cultures maintain, in either their theology or history, that the world or some long-lost mythical place in the world was lost in some great deluge of water? I welcome your thoughts on this most fascinating topic.\n\n\n

Did you know that not all mummies of the Egyptian pharaohs have been discovered? Visit the Mummies of the Pharaohs to discover the facts.

Archaeologists believe Egypt's large pyramids are the work of the Old Kingdom society that rose to prominence in the Nile Valley after 3000 B.C. Historical analysis tells us that the Egyptians built the Giza Pyramids in a span of 85 years between 2589 and 2504 BC. Interest in Egyptian chronology is widespread in both popular and scholarly circles. We wanted to use science to test the accepted historical dates of several Old Kingdom monuments.

How do we know that the settlement located at the foot of the Giza Plateau belongs to the same period of time as when the Egyptians were building the pyramids? Two kinds of evidence tell us that we are excavating a 4th Dynasty site (2575-2465 BC): ceramics and sealings.