The Egyptian Enchantment: A Lottie Lipton Adventure
It was Sunday morning and the museum wasn’t yet open to visitors The sunlight came streaming in through the apartment window and Lottie decided that a walk around the museum would be just the thing to clear her head and make her brain work again As Lottie walked down one of the many halls that filled the museum mulling over her tricky homework she heard a call come from the main entrance hall Lottie Is that you Come and give me a hand Lottie jogged over to where the sun rolled in through the museum’s large open doors Giant pillars reached up to the high 4
ceiling Standing in the main entrance was Uncle Bert He was a round fellow with a bushy white moustache and a face that went pink when he got excited like he was getting right now He stood over a large wooden packing case with a crowbar in his hand How’s the homework going my dear asked Uncle Bert Um fine Almost done Lottie fibbed Ooh Is this a new exhibit she asked quickly changing the subject and succeeding in stopping Uncle Bert from asking any more homework-related questions 5
Uncle Bert nodded excitedly My friends in Cairo sent it to me It will be the centerpiece to my new collection he said proudly Uncle Bert set about opening the wooden packing case like a giddy child on Christmas Within minutes he had managed to lift off the lid and the sides of the packing case fell away to reveal the treasure inside Wow gasped Lottie An Egyptian mummy A large sarcophagus now lay before them It was a stone coffin painted gold and decorated with pictures and symbols A face was drawn on the top an image of a sleeping woman 6
This was a rich lady She died around three thousand years ago explained Uncle Bert She was found in a tomb in Egypt that some of my friends discovered She was surrounded by her special treasures when they found her
