Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

For the final post in the series on Ancient Egyptian Games I’ve collected a bunch of games that can be played online and put them all together here on one page.

You can also purchase games for your computer from the Ancient Egyptian Games Shop.

Senet:
You can read all about the ancient Egyptian game of Senet or you can just jump straight in and play a game of Senet by clicking on the game board below:

Hounds & Jackals:
Like Senet, Hounds & Jackals was another popular game in ancient Egypt.

Build a Pyramid
The BBC has a fun and educational game for children to learn about the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids and how they were built. It’s really quite authentic. The picture below, for example, shows the stage where you select the angle for your pyramid and the accompanying hieroglyphic writing is from plate 16 of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus.

Build another Pyramid
This game is similar to the game Pharaoh but is a bit more simple.

Egyptian Pyramids Jigsaw puzzle
A fun Jigsaw puzzle with an Egyptian photograph. Just choose the yellow “Play as Guest” button.

The Nile File
Join Nakht-Amun as he shows you the world of Ancient Egypt. He’ll tell you all about hieroglyphs, pharaohs, temples, pyramids and more. At the end you will be given a quiz about what you’ve learned.

Egypt Puzzle

Escape from the Mummy’s Tomb
Discover and collect the artifacts as you move through the tomb but watch out for the Mummy!

Amazing Adventures - The Lost Tomb
This one requires that you first download and install the game before you can play. The site offers both a free download and a paid version.

A piece of an ancient map was discovered and is believed to reveal the location of the Lost Tomb of Egypt. Under the direction of the Museum, begin your adventure to locate the Lost Tomb and the treasures locked within!

Tomb of the Unknown Mummy

The Mummy Maker
This is where things start to get a bit messy. Not for the squeamish, in this game you get to scoop the brains out of Seneb’s nose as one of the stages of preparing the body for mummification. Its OK though, we made sure that Seneb was dead first.

Designing a Mummy isn’t as easy as, say, designing T-Shirts.

The Birmingham Museum of Arts for Kids has an educational walk-through. Guess the questions correctly and you get to see inside the mummy’s sarcophagus:

Museum of Civilization
Mummification: Click on any of four mummification stages to play a fun game in which you will learn about the steps involved in making a mummy. Canopic Jars: Learn which ancient Egyptian god protected which organ in the Canopic Jars game. Weighing of the Heart: In the last of the three games you get to weigh your heart to see if you are worthy to enter the afterlife. The goal is to make your way to the sarcophagus chamber by winning all three games.

Bricks of Egypt
Bricks of Egypt takes you on a fantastic journey through an Egyptian world of traps, lasers, fire-balls, gems and hieroglyphs. Classic brick-breaking action and three difficulty settings makes Bricks of Egypt fun for all ages:

Pharoah’s Tomb

Pharoah’s Treasure

Hangaroo
Play Hangaroo, a variation on Hangman. You can also play Hangaroo with a Tutankamon theme.

Immortal Cities: Nile Online
Nile Online is a persistent browser-based empire building game set in ancient Egypt. Play with thousands of other players as you construct cities and monuments worthy of your legacy as Pharaoh! Nile Online is casually paced; it’s something you can play throughout the day, minutes at a time.

The game is free to play and there is nothing to download or install - within seconds you’re commanding, tweaking and growing your empire from anywhere that you have access to the internet.

Death in Sakkara

Osiris

Pyramids Puzzle
Train your brain with this Pyramids puzzle.

Ancient Egyptian Tetrix

Free Downloadable Games:
Mehen
20 Squares
Egypt Ball
Ancient Quest of Saqqarah 1.12 (25.6mb - one hour Demo)
Arrow Antics
Tomb of Giza 1.0 (1mb)
Scepter of Ra (17.12mb - one hour demo)
Rise of the Nile
Pharoah’s Feast (1mb)
Empire of the Gods (17mb)

Luxor (Mac OS X)
Luxor 3 (Mac OS X)
Ankh (Mac OS X)
Ancient Quest of Saqqarah (Mac OS X - one hour demo)
A Tale in the Desert (Mac OS X, Linux & Windows - 24 hour demo)

Previous Ancient Egyptian Games articles:
Ancient Egyptian Games: Senet
Ancient Egyptian Games: Hounds & Jackals
Ancient Egyptian Games: Mehen
Ancient Egyptian Games: Aseb

Extra Links:
Mary Harrsch’s blog Ancient Games
The Cleveland Museum of Art ‘Egypt Activity’ page.
A stack of Egyptian-themed board games and here.

Tags: games, mummy, museum