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In Year 11 Ancient we look at archaeology and the sciences used to extract information from the past. Later we look at case studies, some of which include a pharaoh (Sequenenre Tao II who died a horrible death), the various forms of Greek drama in the 5thC BC, the fabulous tomb of Tutankhamen and the mysterious culture of the Celts. In Yr 12 Ancient we cover the catastrophic deaths of hundreds who died in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and buried the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The other topics are Greek, i.e. the flowering of civilisation in Athens during the 5thC BC, the famous politicians and philosophers of the time, the architecture such as the incredible Parthenon and finally the conflict between the Greeks and the Persians in what we know as the "Persian Wars." where the Greeks were the underdogs, but won through in the end.