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Tut Roadshow The Tut Roadshow is a museum standard masterpiece that brings together Dr Wayne French's passion for These were genuine pieces not mere copies.

Throughout my teen years I was fascinated by the stories that came from ancient history. I grew up being inspired by the amazing lives, accomplishments and stories of Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. In the late 1970’s I was given my first artifacts from the Middle East by David Currie. These were three bricks dating back to 605BC from Babylon, Iraq with King Nebuchadnezzar’s name stamped on them. These three bricks are still in my collection and you can see them in room 3 on the Tutankhamun Roadshow. That began my life-long journey of buying and collecting artifacts and pottery that gave evidence for stories from the ancient Hebrew Writings. I was given the ability to personally visit many of these ancient locations and take pictures using a panoramic head so that I could tell stories that related to the ancient Bible Lands. I then completed a doctorate in Youth Ministry which specialised in the Importance of Experiential Learning in the lives of Young people. This led to my love of leading young people to experience these fascinating historical sites. After completing a post graduate certificate in Archaeology I set up a higher education subject visiting important archaeological sites in countries throughout the Middle East. Over the past twelve years, as a part of their degree, I have taken hundreds of university students to experience these fascinating locations following the footsteps of the Israelites as they journeyed from Egypt to Canaan through the Sinai desert, and tracing the foundations of Christianity in Israel, Greece, Italy and Turkey. While in Egypt I loved the story of Howard Carter and his determined journey to discover the buried tomb of the forgotten Pharaoh Tutankhamun. This Pharaoh came from the eighteenth dynasty in the New Kingdom. I loved to see his treasures and thus I collected copies of artifacts from his tomb. My collection gradually grew until I had enough pieces to display these artifacts in a replica tomb complete with wall paintings. These artifacts that I purchased in the Middle East were multiplied when I had the opportunity to purchase another private collection that began in the 1940s. This collection added greatly to the number of genuine pieces in my display including sacred urn from Saqqara, glass and lamps from ancient Roman times as well as a bowl from Phoenicia with a script. I then purchased a semi-trailer to display these artefacts in a mobile museum and take them to communities throughout the east coast of Australia, especially into remote areas where students do not have access to the larger museums.

-Dr Wayne French (Founder)

20/01/2025

📷 Ramesses II: The Face of Power Reconstructed

For the first time in over 3,200 years, we can see the "handsome" face of one of ancient Egypt's most powerful rulers, Ramesses II, at the height of his reign 🌟. Thanks to groundbreaking scientific work, researchers have used a 3D model of his skull, created from CT scans, to reconstruct his features with incredible precision 🏺✨.

The initial reconstruction revealed what Ramesses II looked like at the time of his death at around 90 years old—a remarkable age for a pharaoh. But the real marvel came when scientists reversed the clock by nearly half a century, recreating his appearance at 45, the peak of his power and influence as the ruler of the 19th Dynasty.

This is the first-ever “scientific facial reconstruction” of Ramesses II based on his actual remains. It offers a stunning glimpse into the past, reminding us of the enduring legacy of one of Egypt's greatest kings. Seeing his face brought to life is a testament to how modern technology continues to deepen our connection with ancient history 🇪🇬🏛️.

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13/01/2025

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An x-ray was taken of Tutankhamun's golden mask The Golden Mask of King Tutankhamun as it appears in the x-ray until recently archaeologists believed that the mask was made from one piece but it was quite a surprise when the mask was subjected to an x-ray examination. The surprise was that the mask contains more than one part that was welded with very precise welding that is not visible to the naked eye. At that time everyone was astonished by what the ancient Egyptian civilization had reached in terms of knowledge and progress in the field of alloys and the gold industry.

Check out this recent excavation of a bowl full of cuneiform tablets and a map in the ancient city of UR.
27/03/2024

Check out this recent excavation of a bowl full of cuneiform tablets and a map in the ancient city of UR.

In October and November of 2022, the Penn Museum conducted the first post-pandemic excavation season at the ancient city of Ur in southern Iraq. Our main goa...

11/01/2024

So many of the engineering and construction processes we use today, we take for granted.But, do you know that most of them have their roots in our distant past, two thousand and even five thousand years ago?

The pyramids of Egypt, the incredible tombs cut deep into the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens in Egypt, still amaze us today.

We still don't fully understand how the pyramids were built but there are tantalising clues and some artefacts that may help explain just how they did it.

The Romans gave us concrete and a cement that set under water! Their arches still stand all over the world in what was once the Roman Empire.

Let your students explore and investigate by using critical thinking along with our hands on activities just how these feats of engineering were possible.
With our new History Day program :Engineering the Ancient World" your students will explore:

From lifting those huge stones to build the pyramids of Giza to building the arches on buildings and aqueducts all over the Roman world there are six interactive exercises for the students.

Perhaps you will discover budding engineers, builders and archaeologists among your students by stimulating their reasoning power using our program.
All six sections involve hands on activities each using reproductions of tools and artefacts from the ancient world.
Book now alongside our Tutroadshow exhibition.

Turn on the sound on the promo video.
Book now at: www.tutroadshow.com

30/12/2023

Writing was invented in Sumer, Mesopotamia, c. 3500 BCE, in the form of cuneiform script and refined c. 3200 BCE in the Sumerian city of Uruk. To become a scribe, one had to learn to fashion one's own writing tablet, master the 600 characters of cuneiform, and also become educated in various fields of knowledge including agriculture, botany, business and finance, construction, mathematics, politics, religion, and many others.

Scribes were almost always the sons of the upper class and nobility, but by the Akkadian Period (2334-2218 BCE), there is evidence of female scribes, the most famous being Enheduanna (l. 2285-2250 BCE), daughter of Sargon of Akkad (Sargon the Great, r. 2334-2279 BCE). After the Akkadian Period, cuneiform script was used primarily to write in Akkadian, but a scribe still needed to know Sumerian, which, though it became a dead language, still informed Akkadian in the same way Latin or Sanskrit does in modern-day languages.

After the fall of the Akkadian Empire, the other civilizations of Mesopotamia – including the Assyrians, Babylonians, Hittites, Kassites, and others – used cuneiform script to write their own languages, but the scribe still needed to know Sumerian and Akkadian and continued to copy documents from the past. Through this practice, the scribes of ancient Mesopotamia created 'history' by preserving the past in written form.

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📷This clay tablet still has its clay envelope. The tablet mentions a legal case before Niqmepuh, King of Iamhad (Aleppo) concerning the legacy of two houses. The seal impressions of ten witnesses (including the King) survive on the fragmentary envelope. Grooves framing some impressions were made by metal caps, probably of gold. Circa 1720 BCE. From Level VII Palace at Tell Atchana, modern-day Hatay Province, Turkey. (The British Museum, London)

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