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Download icon Th The 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 fuly-narrated 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 year High School (yr7 in Victoria). MORE LECTURES COMING SOON

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COMING SOON! DEL #1 The Mummy Fee: $40.00 Pay for lecture View trailer	A fun, general “coverage” of the Egyptian mummy, with all the gruesome bits er.... left in, narrated with humour by Garry R Stone Run Time:	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”!
COMING SOON! DEL #2 Digging up the Past Charge: $30.00 Pay for lecture View trailer	A fun, general introduction to the methods of archeology illustrated by personal experience narrated with mummy jokes and quirky humour by Garry R Stone Run Time:	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 9^th 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.
COMING SOON! DEL #3 Tutankhamun’s Tomb Charge: $30.00 Pay for lecture View trailer	King Tut’s tomb, guts , gold, glory and mystery narrated with humour and animation by Garry R Stone Run Time:	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.
COMING SOON! DEL #4 Ancient Mesopotamia/Sumer Charge: $30.00 Pay for lecture View trailer	The ancient Mesopotamian civiilizations of Sumer and Akkad; their myths & daily life by Garry R Stone Run Time:	Content: geography of Mesopotamia; civilisations - 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.
COMING SOON! DEL #5 The Romans Charge: $30.00 Pay for lecture View trailer	The ancient Romans & daily life; the legacy of the Roman world with sound effects and videos by Garry R Stone Run Time:	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.
COMING SOON! DEL #6 Ancient Egypt Fee: $30.00 Pay for lecture View trailer	A fun general coverage of Ancient Egypt with video clips, animations and humour narrated by Garry R Stone Run Time:	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.
COMING SOON! DEL #10 Ancient Greece Fee: $40.00 Pay for lecture View trailer	A detailed coverage of Ancient Greece with video clips, animations and explanatory graphics narrated by Garry R Stone Run Time:	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, Alexander the Great


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