Pharaonic village

This was a really neat place that someone had told us the girls would like, and they did. It was on the Nile and you took a little boat around and you listened to a recording about how life was during the time of the Pharaohs. They had different people acting out different scenes. Then you got off the boat on this little island in the Nile and they had made a little village you could walk through and see what the houses looked like and in one of the pictures below they showed us how to make fire. The picture of Annielynne below is how they told time, she told us that water clocks like the one here was the oldest way of telling time, even before the sundial. An original one is in the museum and we had seen it the day before. The Egyptians would fill the pitcher with water and it would slowly drip out of a small hole in the bottom. There were marks on the inside to show when one hour had past. In the summer they would put oil on the top so that the water would not all evaporate. very fascinating. Since the museum doesn't allow pictures it was neat to be able to take pics of some of the things we had seen even though they were replicas.