Yoto Cards
BrainBots: The Ancient World – Ancient Egypt
Ladybird Audio Adventures: Ancient Egypt
Books
Picture Books
Mummy Cat by Marcus Ewert, illustrated by Lisa Brown
Longer Books
Ra the Mighty: Cat Detective by A. B. Greenfield, illustrated by Sarah Horne
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The Cat of Bubastes by G. A. Henty
Tut’s Mummy: Lost…and Found by Judy Donnelly (nonfiction)
History Smashers: Ancient Egypt by Kate Messner (nonfiction, ages 8-12)
The Timekeepers: Exploring Ancient Egypt by S.J. King (ages 7-9)
The Boy Who Stole the Pharaoh’s Lunch by Karen McCombie, illustrated by Anneli Bray (interest age 6-8)
The Secret Explorers and the Tomb Robbers by S.J. King
The Ancient Egypt Sleepover by Stephen Davies (ages 7+)
The Heart Scarab by Saviour Pirotta, illustrated by Jo Lindley
Oh Mummy Mia! by Maz Evans (ages 8+)
The Egyptians by Jonny Marx and Chaaya Prabhat (lift-the-flap nonfiction, ages 8-12)
We Are the Ancient Egyptians by David Long, illustrated by Allen Fatimaharan
Cleopatra: The Woman Behind the Stories by Alexandra Stewart, illustrated by Hannah Peck (briefly mentions death and suicide)
Videos
Simple
Kingdoms and Places
- Pyramids of Egypt For Kids | Bedtime History
- Daily Life in Ancient Egypt | History Made Easy
- Discover the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt | History Made Easy
- The New Kingdom of Egypt for Kids | History Made Easy
- Valley of the Kings | Ancient Egypt | History Made Easy
- The Great Sphinx of Giza | Ancient Egypt Made Easy
- Egyptian Chariot Warriors | Ancient Egypt | History Made Easy
Pharaohs and Famous People
- Ramses the Great: King of Ancient Egypt | History Made Easy
- Nefertiti: Queen of Ancient Egypt | History for Kids
- King Tut for Kids | Tutankhamun of Ancient Egypt | Bedtime History
- Pharaohs of Egypt for Beginners | Simple History of Ancient Egypt
Gods, Death and Writing
- Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Kids | Ancient Egypt | History Made Easy
- Goddesses of Egypt for Beginners | Ancient Egypt Made Easy
- Gods of Egypt for Beginners | Ancient Egypt Made Easy
- Book of the Dead | Ancient Egypt Made Easy
- What was Papyrus? Ancient Egypt History Made Easy
Complex
Pyramids, Tombs and Mysteries
- We Solved The Mystery Of The Pyramids
- Did Your Ancestors Build The Pyramids?
- Opening a Sealed Egyptian Tomb | NOVA | PBS
- What’s Inside These Ancient Egyptian Jars? | NOVA | PBS
- The 5,000-Year-Old Mystery of Ancient Egyptian Perfume
- Egyptian Blue: How an Ancient Pigment Could Save Lives
- What You Don’t Know About King Tut’s Space Dagger
- How to make a mummy – Len Bloch
Cleopatra
- History vs. Cleopatra – Alex Gendler
- Why Cleopatra Still Captivates the World | Secrets of the Dead on PBS
- What Cleopatra’s Temple May Have Looked Like
- Cleopatra’s Lost Coin Found After 2,000 Years Underwater
- Cleopatra: The Whole Dang Story | Egyptian History | Extra History Complete
Rulers and Conquerors
- The pharaoh that wouldn’t be forgotten – Kate Green
- Ramesses the Great: The Battle of Kadesh – Egyptian History – Part 1 – Extra History
- Ramesses the Great: Reign of the God-King – Egyptian History – Part 2 – Extra History
- Akhenaten – A Pharaoh Obsessed – Extra History
- The God’s Wife of Amun: Powerful Women in Ancient Egypt | NOVA | PBS
- Alexander the Great’s Egypt 1: Crowning a God | Egyptian History
- Alexander the Great’s Egypt 2: Sarcophagus Heist! | Egyptian History
- Alexander the Great’s Egypt 3: Ptolemy Triumphant | Egyptian History
- Alexander the Great’s Egypt: Extra Context | Egyptian History
Myths and Religion
- The Egyptian myth of the death of Osiris – Alex Gendler
- The Egyptian myth of Isis and the seven scorpions – Alex Gendler
- How Isis Brought Her True Love Back From the Dead | Fate & Fabled
- The Egyptian Book of the Dead: A guidebook for the underworld – Tejal Gala
- The Book of the Dead May Not Be What You Think It Is
Writing and Language
- What You Don’t Know About The Rosetta Stone
- Writing doesn’t always end in alphabets – the enigmatic Egyptian counterexample
- What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like – and how we know
- How Egypt invented the alphabet – History of Writing Systems #7 (Abjad)