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 Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 2:52 pm
Some of that, he got. "Mountain," he said, and hoped it was the right word. He meant the large spiky things that he could see outside the windows. Certainly something big enough to eat these big monsters would still be able to hide in a mountain. If it was hollow.
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:04 am
Owen shivered at the though of something big enough to be eatign dinosaurs still living out there. He didn't even want a picture of something like that, he'd just run if he saw it. He ran two fingers down one of his ears, one on either sife of the warm velvaty soft area as he thought.
There seemed to be a lot of different opinions on dinosaurs and he didn't really want to start a fight since no one knew the truth, or was to lazy to read the plagues in front on the skeletons and on the walls. " Maybe we should go look at something else, Like the Egypt section, it's supposed to be themed like a pyramid tomb sort of thing with all the stuff they dug up inside and set up sort of properly."
Unless they started arguing on how to best make a mummy Owen felt it was probably a safer area, plus bones were starting to get boring and his camera didn't really get good pictures of them becuase they were so big.
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 3:35 pm
"Uh, okay," said Nahuel. Egypt was on Earth - his mother had told him all about it, and how she wanted to do an archaeological dig there one day but it was sort of backwards and she didn't have clearance to go there. Still, it would be cool to go to the exhibit. Nahuel liked artifacts of every sort.
Maybe, when he grew up, he could be an archaeologist like Indiana Jones. Wystan, who Nahuel barely remembered, had been an archaeologist. Mom was an Anthropologist, which was sort of different.
He looked up at the big directory sign.
"Egypt is that way," he said, pointing down one of the myriad side halls.
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:46 pm
Mort peered down the long hallway the other boy was pointing at. His knowledge of history didn’t extend very far unless it concerned music, so Egypt was a fairly foreign concept to him.
Big tombs? Digging? It all made little sense to him, but he was always willing to learn.
“Okay!” He said cheerfully. “Let’s go. I wanna see the what-did-you-call-it? Pyrmaid?
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:25 pm
He wasn't quite sure if the invitation extended to him also, but he followed the older kids anyway. Lexi seemed quite uncertain as he trailed behind them, but it seemed like a better idea to follow than to stay put and be alone.
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Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:52 am
Owen didn't know much more about Egypt than most kids, which was to say that he'd seen random t.v shows featuring things about it. What he had seen has been interesting, from corpses to curses and cities where everyone seemed to have gold Jewelry. That place ran a lot different than stuff here, something about different government , the people who ran the place doing it a lot different than the ones here.
Owen walked down the hall and smiled softly, he wanted to get a good look at the carving's and paintings on the walls. It was probably the only chance he'd ever have to examine a pyramid and not get dirty in the process. though he wasn't sure if he could take pictures of stuff. Some of the exhibits in the museums didn't allow photography though Owen wasn't sure why.
" Did you know Egyptians had the first paper?" It was perhaps one of the most interesting things t.v had told the young rabbit Eden about the culture he was about to examine. He forgot most of the details just that they had used a plant with a p name to make it.
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Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 10:30 am
"Yeah," said Nahuel, investigating a miniature coffin on a pedestal. "They used papyrus." Sometimes hanging around archaeology digs paid off. He found this all very fascinating.
He read the description attached to the tiny gilded figure.
"Hey, this used to hold the king's liver!" he said enthusiastically, a wave of boyish delight in the disgusting overtaking him. "Awesome!" He moved down the row of displays, turning his attention next to a series of jars adorned with Jackal heads. "They stuck his heart and his lungs and his stomach in these," he said, "And they took his brain out through his nose!"
That was just fantastically disgusting.
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 2:09 pm
“Really? Out their noses? That’s beyond gross!!” Mort couldn’t even imagine brains coming out of a nose, it was turning him green.
He studiously avoided looking at the little urns that held the long-departed king’s innards, and instead turned to look at a hefty, but crumbling, stone tablet.
“Hey look at this!” He exclaimed. “They wrote with pictures!” Not having to learn the alphabet, or be bothered with spelling; now that was cool.
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 8:21 pm
He tilted his head and followed Mort over to the tablet. "Nice," he said appreciatively. Alexis didn't think of writing so much as writing, but as drawing conveniently letter-shaped pictures anyway. The Egyptians probably dreamed of such an easy writing system as the American alphabet. "Very nice," he repeated, then he shut up again.
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Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 6:01 am
Owen was still trying to figure out how one got a brain out of something the size of a nose. it just didn't make any sense to him, it was however something he didn't particularly want to see up close just to see how it was done. Wondering about it was enough for him.
" What if you couldn't draw?" Letters were in Owen's opinion easy enough to learn but pictures not so much. What if you got the head on the bird turned the wrong way, did that mean a different letter ? Or if your lines were squiggly and you couldn't draw at all. This seemed like a very bad way of writing to him, even if it was really pretty.
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