Ancient Civilizations

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In Mummies in the Morning, Jack and Annie get another mummy when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to ancient Egypt after reading a book on the same subject. There, they find themselves in a pyramid, face to face with a long dead queen named Hutepi. She needs their help finding her copy of the Book of the Dead for a trip to the underworld.

Jack and Annie travel back to the ancient Roman Empire at the request of Morgan le Fay, who asks the siblings to retrieve a book for her library. The search, however, becomes much more difficult as Jack and Annie have only a few minutes before Mount Vesuvius erupts!

Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not allowed to do.