Curiosity's I Was Mummified

Am I the only person who watched this?

I have talked about and shown Tamarin mummies and all things Egyptian. That, after all, is what got me hooked on anthropology as a kid and something I still enjoy. The only reason I knew about this show was that it came on after Mythbusters. Good thing Discovery replays things in the early morning. The plane crash episode got tons of publicity and this got none. Chris began to send Tamarin out of the room when we played back our DVR.

"I want to watch it! Is that a real mummy? Are they pretending? He doesn't look like the other mummies."

She sat down on the couch with me and I explained to her about donating your body to science, terminal illness, and that they would be handling a dead body throughout the show including cutting it open. If she was okay with this then she could stay and watch, but if at any time she became uncomfortable she could go play or watch the cartoon sisters were watching.

She didn't stop talking through the entire show. It was question after question after question. "Why? How? Why? What? How? Why?"

She was content at the end when he looked much more mummyish and when we said that was the end, more questions, "What will they do with him now? What happened then? That's the end? Is there another show? How do we find out if it worked?"

It's the small joys in life :) I love the fact she was so interested in it. We will probably be rereading our Egypt books the rest of the week. Including this one:

It's wordy and I usually give her an abridged version when we flip through it, but it does have a lot of info and I think she will enjoy it more when she gets older.

This of course is another great opportunity to talk about symbols. I have talked to her about how our numbers and letters don't really mean anything. They are scribbles that have meaning because of our culture. They have meaning because we give them meaning. They are symbols. I may pull out some of my Egyptian books from when I was younger and draw her name in hieroglyphics. I think she would enjoy that, let's hope I can find them.....