We had some of the Grandchildren to visit today including the twin nine year old girls. One was telling me how she’d been watching a TV program about ancient Egypt and her mother told her that we had a copy of a large papyrus hanging on the wall in one of our holiday cottages, the guest had just left why don’t you go and look.
It’s hanging there as it’s huge and it wouldn’t fit anywhere else !
She came back and I was expecting all sorts of questions.. Oh no, she told me in great detail what it was, what it showed and what the figures were doing. It’s a page from the Osiris “Book of the Dead”. Oh have you been taught about it I asked.
Oh no, I read the hieroglyphs she tells me. AGED NINE for goodness sake
I was seriously impressed, she’d picked up the basics from the TV program, remembered them and read the papyrus!
Incidentally the original is in the British Museum and is tiny ! Ours, bought in Egypt, is an amazing work of art probably 30 times bigger than the original.
