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Ancient Egypt

13 questions · Multiple choice, True/False, Fill in the blank
  1. Which boy king's nearly intact tomb was uncovered in 1922?

    • Tutankhamun
    • Akhenaten
    • Djoser
    • Thutmose I
  2. Which British archaeologist led the excavation that found that tomb?

    • Howard Carter
    • Flinders Petrie
    • Arthur Evans
    • Leonard Woolley
  3. Which jackal-headed god was associated with embalming and the dead?

    • Anubis
    • Horus
    • Thoth
    • Sobek
  4. The Great Sphinx of Giza has a human head on the body of which animal?

    • A lion
    • A bull
    • A falcon
    • A crocodile
  5. Where were most New Kingdom pharaohs buried?

    • The Valley of the Kings
    • The Giza plateau
    • Abu Simbel
    • Alexandria
  6. Which queen was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt?

    • Cleopatra VII
    • Hatshepsut
    • Nefertari
    • Ankhesenamun
  7. Papyrus, the writing surface used by Egyptian scribes, was made from what?

    • A marsh reed
    • Animal skin
    • Woven flax
    • Thin clay
  8. During mummification, certain organs were removed and stored in what?

    • Canopic jars
    • Sarcophagi
    • Amphorae
    • Ushabti boxes
  9. Which long-reigning pharaoh had the rock temples at Abu Simbel carved?

    • Ramesses II
    • Khufu
    • Menes
    • Amenhotep III
  10. Modern archaeology indicates the pyramids were built largely by organised, paid labour rather than by slaves.

    • True
    • False
  11. Egyptian hieroglyphs were purely decorative and carried no sound values.

    • True
    • False
  12. The pharaoh's double crown combined the crowns of Upper Egypt and ___ Egypt.

  13. The painted limestone bust found at Amarna portrays Queen ___.