CONTENTS Page 4 Page 6 Page 8 Page 10 Page 12 Page 14 Page 16 Page 18 Page 20 Page 22 Page 24 Page 26 Page 28 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Under Our Feet Sleeping in the Soil The Stone Age Lucy Tutankhamun The Bronze Age The Iron Age The Romans The Terracotta Army Pompeii Sutton Hoo Rapa Nui The King in the Car Lot People Quiz Glossary Index Words that look like this are explained in the glossary on page 31
UNDER IT’S AWESOME ABOVE YOUR HEAD OUR FEET Humans have always looked up at the skies and tried to make sense of what they saw We have always reached for the stars climbed to the tops of the tallest mountains and dreamt of life on other planets We have built amazing skyscrapers and monuments to the heavens People live in some of the highest places possible and now some even live in space INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 4
IT’S AMAZING ALL AROUND YOU There aren’t many places you can go on Earth to be truly alone With over 7 billion people on Earth we’re usually surrounded by people from our families and the people we live with to densely populated cities that are home to millions of human beings all living out their lives around us LOOK DOWN Have you ever thought about the people beneath our feet though No we’re not talking about today’s people whizzing along in underground trains or digging and mining just below the surface We mean the bones tools and treasures of people who walked the surface of Earth long ago and who would have stood and looked at the same stars we do today These people have kept their secrets for hundreds and even thousands of years and their stories lie just under our feet 5
