This month, 6th grade has been hard at work learning about ancient Egypt. Students took a field trip to Albany to visit the Egypt exhibit at the Albany Institute of History and Art and learn from museum curators how the ancient Egyptians preserved their history. Students molded artifacts out of clay and explored the exhibit to learn the story of Albany’s 3,000 year old mummy, Ankhefenmut, a priest and sculptor in the Temple of Mut, along with his recently discovered priest’s robe, his coffin base from the museum’s collection, and his beautiful coffin lid on loan from the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna.
