YAC’s Favourite Games on the Web

Kids Dig Reed

This website is based on the activities at the Reed Farmstead Archaeological site in West Virgina, USA.

Why not try their interactive word jumbles, sliders, mazes and crosswords in their ‘Games and Quizzes Zone’
Give metal detecting and other surveying techniques a go in their amazing online ‘Discovery Zone’
Learn more about the artefacts that were found at the Reed Farmstead in their ‘Artifacts Gallery’

Roman Game

Visit the Roman section on the BBC website and play their ‘Dig It Up - Romans’, interactive Roman digging game.

Each level gets you doing different bits of archaeological excavation.
Find pieces and put them back together to try and guess what they once might have been
Then work out what this can tell you about the Romans.

Roman Mysteries Game

This game is also part of the Roman section on the BBC website. Visit a selection of five different Roman cities and meet the people who live there. The five different games include:

The Ring of Stabia
The Apothecary of Ostia
The Thief of Laurentum
The Mule of Surrentum
The Orb of Augustus

Search for hidden items to get into new areas of the game and help the Roman people.

This game is part of the BBC’s Iron Age section. Discover how archaeology can help to reveal more about how Iron Age dwellers might have gone about their daily life. Find out if you have the skills to:

Make Fire
Bake Bread
Spin Clothes

And therefore survive in the Iron Age!

Archaeo Concentration

Uncover all the blocks by successfully matching the image pairs. Click the Timer button to start a new game whenever you want.

This game is from BAJR, the British Archaeological Jobs and Resources website.

Excavation

Excavate as many pots as possible - by clicking on the squares. There are four levels:

Grass
Topsoil (19th century)
Subsoil 1(Medieval)
Subsoil 2 (Roman)

Beneath that is bedrock. If you break a pot, the game ends. There are 5 complete pots and 1 broken on each level - The maximum score you can get is 15. Look out for the finds! - Remember there may be another pot beneath one you have already found!

Neferchichi’s Tomb

A variety of downloadable freebies with an Ancient Egyptian theme, from Neferchichi’s Tomb.

Mummy Maker

Enter the embalmer’s workshop
You must prepare the body of Ramose, officer to the king, for burial

The chief embalmer, Kha, will be watching your work closely. Complete your task perfectly, or he will be denied paradise.

Pyramid builder

Journey back four and a half thousand years to Egypt’s Old Kingdom, to the Pyramid Age. As the vizier, or head of state, you are about to undertake the building of the king’s pyramid.

Have you got what it takes to be a pyramid builder?

Tudor and Victorians Dressing Up Game

Play the game and see if you can dress:

the Victorian and Tudor women correctly
the Victorian and Tudor gentlemen correctly.

Hunt the Ancestor

Time and money are running out and the developer’s diggers are wanting to move onto the site of a dig.

Experience some of the realities of being an archaeologist by playing Hunt the Ancestor.
Learn about Archaeological Techniques
Find out how to study a landscape or site, from the BBC (for older children).

Recycling

We can recycle: - Glass - Paper - Plastic - Metal.

We can also put left over food into our compost to use in a garden. In this game you need to guess what rubbish goes in each recycle bin?

External Internet Safety Links

External websites are out of the control of The Young Archaeologists’ Club. Whilst we have carried out an initial check that the content of the website is suitable for The Young Archaeologists’ Club age range, The Young Archaeologists’ Club is not responsible for the content of these external sites. If you feel that the link is unsuitable, please do let us know.

CEOP’s Thinkuknow website provides films and games to play on how to stay safer online and Childnet has produced a range of online safety resources including Chatdanger.com and Know IT All.

For more information please visit YAC’s Safe Surfing page.

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