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Ancient Egyptian Amulet Mystery Activity

This document provides information about a mystery activity involving the theft of an ancient Egyptian scarab amulet. It thanks the reader for downloading the activity files and notes that the files are available for free online. It also provides contact information for the creator and encourages sharing questions or comments.

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Ancient Egyptian Amulet Mystery Activity

This document provides information about a mystery activity involving the theft of an ancient Egyptian scarab amulet. It thanks the reader for downloading the activity files and notes that the files are available for free online. It also provides contact information for the creator and encourages sharing questions or comments.

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Maricruz Ozores Herrero
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Kids can use this as a key to decipher the code and test their translation theories.

Thank you for downloading the Missing Amulet Mystery!! I hope you love it!!

Please note that this file is available for free at [Link]


[Link].

If you have received this file without downloading it yourself, it is an illegal copy. Please go to the link above
and download your own copy. This allows me to continue to create free educational resources. Thank you!!

This activity is the featured activity of Day 1 in my Ancient Egypt Unit Study / Class. Click on the link above
for more details and links to additional lessons.

Feel free to email me with questions or comments—I love to hear from you!! (preschoolpackets@[Link])

Happy Educating!!

--Carla at Teaching Without Chairs

Clipart Credit: People clipart by Melonheadz. Used by permission.

Possible Mystery Introduction:


"Thank you for coming all the way to Egypt! We have been trying to put together the perfect
team of detectives to solve our little embarrassing problem here...as you know, amulets were a
very important part of ancient Egyptian life...everybody wore them, and most of them were
blessed by ancient priests because they believed it could help protect the person who wore
them. Blessed amulets were even put on mummies! I'm sure you also know that while many
amulets were simple circles and rectangles, many were also special shapes that reminded the
Egyptians of different aspects of their religion. One of the very special amulet shapes was a
scarab beetle. Now I know scarabs are a little gross to you, since they like to roll balls of dung
around, but they were amazing to the ancient Egyptians! The way they push their dung across
the ground reminded them of their Sun God pushing the sun across the sky. Scarabs also
represent life and resurrection because after they lay their eggs in the ball of dung, lots of little
scarabs emerge from the dung, full of life and energy! The ancient Egyptians also believed that
their priests "charmed" the amulets with magic that would ward off evil and protect the person
who wore it!

"Anyway, one of our most famous scarab amulets, the great Rainbow Scarab, was on display at
our museum this week...but it was stolen! We have tried to keep its disappearance a secret, but
we really need to find it soon...and figure out who stole it! We are soooo grateful that you are
willing to help us figure this out! You have complete access to all the clues we've found (they
might be "hidden" under your chairs...) and are welcome to use any of our resources you need!
So get to work!!"

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