On Saturday, I went to my first meeting of Manchester Museum's Young Archaeologists' Club.  The first meeting was all about Egyptian Mummies and Modern Medicine.  This meeting was held, not in the Museum itself, but in part of Manchester University.

When we first got there, we were taken into the Students' Lounge and slit into two groups.  My group started off by going on a tour of the top floor of the building.  We saw lots of interesting machines that are used to look inside the mummies that are brought to the University.  We also saw some of the tools used to cut open the outside layers of the mummies.

After that, we went back to the lounge for a drink of juice and some biscuits.  Then, my group had a look at hieroglyphics and how they were used by the Ancient Egyptians as an alphabet.  We found out about Cartouches as well.

All in all, it was a very interesting day.  Whilst I was at the Club, Mum and Dad had some time for themselves.  They went to the Museum and had a drink and a snadwich in their restaurant.  They also bought me a small Mummy's Sarcophagus to put inside my model Egyptian Temple that I made a few years ago!

I am really going to enjoy being a member of this Club and I can hardly wait until next month's meeting!