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Bring Ancient Civilizations to life with an exciting, interactive, educational incursion programme for year 7/8 SOSE/Ancient  History with special lectures for Older Students (coming soon) + School Holiday Programmes
and Now ON-LINE availability of my models and COMING SOON down loadable Presentations of my lectures and later an ON-LINE Archaeological Exhibition programme to run in your classroom!
However there is nothing better than students seeing original archaeological material or museum-quality replicas of the same to develop concrete understanding. So why not book an ARCHAEO-PRO incursion for your students today?

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    Download icon ThThe Distance Education Lectures listed below are fully-narrated powerpoint lectures as presented to schools in Melbourne and environs. They have been compiled over ten years of Archaeo-Pro incursions to schools and twelve years as Education Officer of The Australian Officer at Ancient Times House.

    The lecture in FLV form will be sent to your e-mail address upon completion of the registration form below. You have the ability to screen the lecture as many times as you wish before expiration of the license issued upon payment made here. If you have problems please e-mail or phone me (03 97547376) several days before you wish to screen the presentation.
    All lectures are suitable for first & second years High School (yr7/8 in Victoria). MORE LECTURES COMING SOON

PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PURCHASE LECTURES UNTIL PROBLEMS WITH SITE NAVIGATION ARE SORTED OUT

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DEL MUM “The Mummy”

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A fun, general “coverage” of the Egyptian mummy, with all the gruesome bits er.... left in, narrated with humour by Garry R Stone

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Content: Early discovery of mummification, the process of mummification,  brain removal, canopic jars, Wa-bet and Per-nefer, ceremonies, later cheaper methods of mummification, linen wrapping, the Opening of the Mouth; various royal mummies; evidence of diseases; the funeral rites & mourning; BA and KA; coffins & mummy cases – symbolism; the death mask; the gods – the Weighing of the Heart
Disclaimer: I am entirely responsible for the sick mummy jokes in this lecture. I trust your students will be “wrapped”!

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DEL DUP “Digging up the Past”

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A fun, general introduction to the methods of archeology illustrated by personal experience narrated with jokes and quirky humour by Garry R Stone

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Content: What is an archaeologist? How is an archaeologist different to an historian? What is primary/secondary evidence?; the tell – how are cities buried?, strata; what archaeology is/is not; excavation procedures – surveying, systematic, controlled excavation, tools, sieving, photography – example of Tel Gezer; dating tools – case study of pottery on a destruction layer at Tel Lachish; discovery of a threshing floor at Gezer, coins in a Roman house; reconstruction of Megiddo 9th century B.C.; archaeological evidence and historical records/limitations of archaeology as a tool of the historian; misconceptions about archaeology – Gezer and campaign of Sheshonq in Palestine in 925 B.C.

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DEL TUT “Tutankhamun’s
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King Tut’s tomb, guts , gold,  glory and mystery narrated with humour and animation by Garry R Stone

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Content : The personal and throne names of the king in hieroglyphs, the location of the tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Howard Carter’s work in finding the tomb under the debris from the tomb of Ramesses IV, Tut’s place in the timeline of Egyptian history, the rings, chariots, thrones, beds, lamps, writing equipment,  KA statues, burial shrines, canopic equipment, guardian goddesses, ushabtis, three coffins, sarcophagus, death mask, jewellery, daggers, Tut unwrapped, two stillborn children, his death (murder?), new discoveries.

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DEL MES “Ancient Mesopotamia”

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 The ancient Mesopotamian civiilizations of Sumer and Akkad; their myths & daily life by Garry R Stone

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Content: geography of Mesopotamia; civilisations - Al ‘Ubaid, Sumerians, Akkadians; great cities of Sumer – Al ‘Ubaid, Ur, Uruk, Nippur, Lagash; agriculture, copper and bronze work; religion – the gods, temples, myths - Unuma Elish (creation story), Epic of Gilgamesh (flood story); Royal Graves of Ur – jewellery, gold work, weapons; Sargon of Akkad, cuneiform writing; Neo-Sumerian empire – Ur-Nammu & ziggurat.

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DEL ROM “The Romans”

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 The ancient Romans & daily life; the legacy of the Roman world with sound effects and videos by Garry R Stone

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Content : Pompeii, forum, streets, bars, housing: layout of houses, sanitation, bakeries, theatre, gladiators, bathhouses, eruption of Vesuvius, roads, origins of the Romans: Etruscans, Sabines; founding of Rome, forum Romanum, basilica Julia, temple of Vesta, the army, forts, Caesar’s siege of Avaricium, the triumph, Vespasian, the Colosseum, Augustus, census, crime & punishment, trial of Jesus, crucifixion, Pontius Pilate, persecution of Christians & Jews, split of the empire, fall of Rome.

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DEL AE “Ancient Egypt”

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A fun general coverage of Ancient Egypt with video clips, animations and humour narrated by Garry R Stone

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Content: Geography of Egypt, pyramids, temples, obelisk construction, quarrying and transport of stone, the Nile inundation, nilometer of Aswan, irrigation, the shaduf, plowing and harvesting, agriculture & foods, boats & fishing, administration of the state, architecture/housing, shipping, trades, artwork, writing and the scribe, hieroglyphs, cartouches, religion and the gods, death, mummification & burial, afterlife, valley of the kings, the Pharaoh, the Death Mask. valley of the kings.

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DEL AG “Ancient Greece”

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A detailed coverage of Ancient Greece with video clips, animations and explanatory graphics narrated by Garry R Stone

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Content: 1. The Aegean, Minoans, Crete, Knossos palace, Queen’s apartments, throne room, frescoes, Phaistos disk, bull leaping, ships; destruction of Thera. 2. Mycenae, walls, gate, grave circle A, death masks, swords, cups, palace and megaron, “Atreus’” tomb, Vaphio cups, Schliemann & ancient Troy, the layers of Troy, Homer & the Iliad, Trojan horse, destruction of Mycenae, linear B tablets. 3. Athens, agora, altars, stoas, stoa of Attalos, peribolos of eponymous heroes, Pnyx, Mars hill & apostle Paul in Athens, panathenaic way, acropolis, propylaea, Parthenon, Pericles, democracy,  Phidias & Parthenon marbles, Athena, Erecthion, caryatids, theatres, ostraca and ostracism, the gods, Attic pottery, Corinth, hoplites, Spartans, battle of Thermopylae, Salamis defeat of Xerxes.

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