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Inside Ancient
Africa
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Egypt
This part-original, part- of a Saharan market,
replica Egyptian ruin experience life on a slave
leads you up and down ship, and see a pair of
stairs, into Egyptian fighting elephants: this
bedrooms and tombs, exhibit offers an amazing
and through a market- and educational journey
place. See how Cleopatra through ancient and
lived and how mummies modern Africa for
were wrapped. all ages (right).
Pacific Spirits
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A celebration of
vibrant Pacific islander
culture: visitors can see
dramatic masks, listen
to recorded sounds from
the swamps of New
Guinea, and bang on
an impressive 9-ft
(3-m) drum. 0
Evolving
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Planet
Journey through four
billion years of life on
Earth as a wide range of
displays tell the story of 6 2 7
evolution. Interact with Key to Floorplan
single-celled organisms, First level
giant dinosaurs, and our Main level
first human ancestors. Upper level
The Ancient
Americas
Lions of Tsavo
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Step into the world of
In 1898, these
two partners in crime Ice Age mammoth-
killed and ate 140 men hunters, enter an
who were constructing a 800-year-old pueblo,
bridge in Kenya, before and explore the Aztec
they in turn were hunted Empire, as artifacts
and killed. The skins (left) and displays
were first used as rugs, uncover 13,000 years
before being mounted of human history in
as you see today. the Americas.
Underground 6
Adventure
Enter this larger-than-
life “subterranean”
ecosystem to get a
bug’s-eye view of life.
Wander through a jungle
of roots (right), and
listen to the chatter of a
busy ant colony. Extra
admission charged.

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