Museums are storehouse of interesting things that help us learn more about the natural world and other cultures. Ancient Mesopotamia provides ideas and activities to help students create their own amazing "museum" full of specially crafted "artifacts" from the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia. These projects and activities highlights the economic, pollical, scientific, and cultural components on which civilizations are based.
Here are just a few of the kinds of artifacts students can make for the class museum while working alone, with a partner, or in small groups:
- Cuneiform tablets
- Queen Puabi's golden headdress
- Beaded jewelry
- tokens and clay containers
- Cylinder seals
- Ishtar Gate mosaic tile
- A model of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
- A ziggurat journal
- Dioramas depicting stories of the Epic of Gilgamesh