Loan Boxes

Transform your classroom into a portal to ancient Egypt with our Loan Box service! Packed with fascinating artefacts and engaging activities, our boxes offer a hands-on learning experience that sparks curiosity and deepens understanding. Let your students explore the wonders of the Nile Valley up close and personal.

With our loan boxes, teachers can provide students with an immersive learning experience that combines history, archaeology, and critical thinking. By handling replica artefacts and completing engaging activities, students will develop a lifelong appreciation for the past.

Religion and Ritual

Included in this box are:
– Shabti x2
– Weighing of the heart image on papyrus
– Soul house
– Necklace with amulet
– Canopic jar
– Lotus flower
– Musical instrument
– Heart scarab
– Tutankhamun papyrus
– Offering to the gods papyrus
– Bes amulet
– Cat amulet
– Wadjet eye amulet
– Djed pillar amulet
– Ankh amulet
– Tomb smell cube
– Mummification smell cube

An open case filled with various Egyptian artefacts, including papyrus scrolls, amulets, figurines, and a small sculpture of Tutankhamun.

Life in Ancient Egypt

Included in this box is:
– Headrest
– Pair of sandals
– Makeup pot
– Egyptian glass bottle
– Flint handaxe
– Clay pot
– Scribal palette
– Necklace
– Papyrus
– Bread smell cube
– Honey smell cube
– Old river smell cube
– Kazbar smell cube

An open case filled with various ancient Egyptian artefacts, including a large papyrus scroll, a clay pot, and several small tools.

Egypt and Its Neighbours

Included in this box is:
– Roman oil lamp                                   
– Lapis lazuli stone
– Ancient Greek spinning toy         
– Cinnamon smell cube
– Roman hygiene kit
– Papyrus
– Wax tablet
– Shabti
– Roman coins
– Ancient Greek coins
– Statue of Isis
– Corinthian jar

An open case filled with various ancient Egyptian artefacts, including a large papyrus scroll, a clay figurine, a wooden tablet, a small clay disk, a collection of coins, a scarab beetle amulet, and a decorated pottery jar.

Ancient Egypt in a Box

Included in this box is:
– Headrest
– Pair of sandals
– Makeup pot
– Scarab beetle amulet
– Wadjet eye amulet
– Flint handaxe
– Clay pot
– Wax scribal palette
– Necklace
– Papyrus
– Bread smell cube
– Canopic jar
– Old river smell cube
– Carnelian
– Lapis lazuli

An open case filled with various ancient Egyptian artefacts, including a large papyrus scroll, a wooden headrest, woven sandals, and a clay pot..

Boxes cost £10 a week and can be collected from the Egypt Centre for free or delivered to the organisation for a postage fee. These loan boxes can work in tandem with our Virtual Schools programme.

To book a loan box, please contact: egyptcentre@swansea.ac.uk.