Pyramids/Temples
What are the names of the three pyramids at Giza?
What are Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure.
What are the three important roles of a Pharaoh?
What is ruler, sacred leader, and builder.
Name 3 of the Gods or Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
Who is Ra, Osiris, Isis, Horus, Anubis, Thoth, Bastet, Sekhmet.
When did Cleopatra rule Egypt?
When is 51-30 BCE.
What is the most accepted theory of how the pyramids were built?
What are the four Symbols of the Pharaoh?
What is a double crown, crook & flail, uraeus cobra, and a cartouche.
What animal head did Sekhmet have?
What is a lion.
Name four of the nine languages that Cleopatra spoke.
What is Kione Greek, Ancient Egyptian, Hebrew, Ethiopian, Arabic, Median, Syrian, Latin.
What are the three chambers inside the big pyramid at Giza?
What is the king’s chamber, queen’s chamber, and the grand gallery.
Who discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb, and when was it discovered?
Who is Howard Carter in 1922.
What animal was said to guard the underworld?
What is cats.
When is 69 BCE.
What was the Great Sphinx supposedly built to do?
What is to be the guardian of the Great Pyramids. It faced East as a sign of rebirth.
Who is “Ramses the Great” who ruled Egypt for 66 years. He was a great military leader who united upper and lower Egypt and lived til he was 90 years old.
What is the heart is fed to Ammit (head of a croc, torso of a lion, and the legs of a hippo) and the soul shatters. This is called the “second death”.
How did Cleopatra die?
What is either suicide by poison or being bitten by an asp (Egyptian Cobra).
What did an Obelisk symbolize?
What is a ray of the sun.
Put these steps of mummification in order:
- Treat with oils and resins- Clean the body
- Dry with natron
- Wrap in linen
- Remove and preserve organs
- Place body in coffin with protective objects.
1. Clean the body
2. Remove Organs
3. Dry body with natron
4. Treat with oils and resins
5. Wrap carefully in linen
6. Place in coffin with protective objects.
What is the myth of Isis and Osiris?
What is Osiris was tricked by Set into a chest that was thrown into the Nile to die. His wife, Isis, found him but he was stolen again by Set. Set cut him into 14 pieces and hid his remains through out Egypt. Isis out of her love for him begged other God’s for help. They searched and eventually found all of the pieces. Using magic, Isis was able to put her husband back together and bring him back to life. She wrapped him in linen to keep him together which is why he is called the “first ever mummy”.
What happened to the three children Cleopatra had with Mark Antony?
They were sent to be raised in Rome by his widowed wife, Octavia.