Gods
Materials
Iconography
Yas, Queen!
Animals
Dynasties
Archaeology
Inscriptions
100
He’s green and rules over the afterlife — appropriate since his wife Isis and his son Horus brought him back from the dead.
OSIRIS
100
The Votive Figurines of Eshnunna are carved from this very soft mineral.
GYPSUM
100
She is kneeling and holding jars of offerings, and has a false beard strapped to her chin — looking for all the world like a male pharaoh.
HATSHEPSUT
100
Meritaten, the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Smenkhkare, was the daughter of this earlier Pharaoh, who abolished the worship of all the gods except the sun disc.
AKHENATEN and NEFERTITI
100
Its hind legs are paralyzed because it has been shot with arrows by Ashurbanipal.
The Dying LIONESS
100
The Achaemenids were the most famous dynasty of kings who ruled over this empire.
PERSIA
100
He deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics using kings’ names enclosed in cartouches on the Rosetta stone.
CHAMPOLLION
100
The most common cuneiform inscription in the world can be found on bricks from the walls of this city, the capital of Nebuchadnezzar’s empire.
BABYLON
200
This god was worshipped by the Votive Figurines of Eshnunna.
ABU
200
This dark black rock is what the Hammurabi Stele is carved from.
BASALT
200
The relief sculptures of this ANE empire show that its kings never skipped leg day.
(Neo-)ASSYRIAN
200
She was the last of the Hellenistic Ptolemaic dynasty of Pharaohs, losing her kingdom and her life in 31 BC.
CLEOPATRA (VII)
200
These awesome creatures entwine their necks around the round hollow of the Palette of King Narmer.
SERPOPARDS
200
The Chaldaean dynasty included this king, who inflicted a crushing defeat on Pharaoh Necho II at the Battle of Carchemish in 605.
NEBUCHADNEZZAR (II)
200
This British archaeologist was the first to peer inside Tutankhamun’s tomb, exclaiming, “I see wonderful things.”
Howard CARTER
200
“If an ox is walking along the street and gores a man, nothing can be done about it.”
The CODE OF HAMMURABI
300
This god wears a turban with horns and has flames coming from his shoulders as he gives laws to Hammurabi.
SHAMASH
300
The seated scribe’s nipples are made out of this material.
WOOD
300
You know Naram Sin is divine because he has these on his head.
HORNS
300
She’s the wife of the god Osiris, who gathers the pieces of his body after he is murdered by Set.
ISIS
300
A lamassu can have the legs of either of these two types of animal.
BULL and LION
300
In between the Akkadians and Hammurabi, much of Mesopotamia was ruled by the Third Dynasty of this city, the hometown of Abraham.
UR
300
Austen Layard was the British excavator of this capital city of Ashurbanipal, the source of the lion hunt reliefs and several Lamassus.
NINEVEH
300
There are game boards carved in the bases of these statues by bored palace guards in Khorsabad and Nineveh.
LAMASSU
400
The White Temple of Warka was dedicated to this sky god, the Mesopotamian equivalent of Uranus.
ANU
400
Menkaure and his queen Khamerernebty II are sculpted out of this type of stone, as is also the Ambum stone.
GREYWACKE
400
The rays of the sun disc Aten in the Amarna relief terminate in hands that bestow this symbol of life and prosperity on Akhenaten and his family.
ANKH
400
NEFERTITI
400
The uraeus is a small statue of this type of animal, used as a decoration on the red crown of lower Egypt.
a COBRA
400
DAILY
DOUBLE!
The founder of this dynasty was Sargon the Great, the father of Naram-Sin and self-proclaimed “King of the Universe.”
400
He was the finder of the Apollo 11 stones.
Wilhelm WENDT
400
The names of kings on the Rosetta Stone are surrounded by these rounded inscribed boxes.
CARTOUCHES
500
Menkaure triads depict the pharaoh with Hathor and a goddess specific to each of these divisions of Egypt.
NOMES
500
It’s the main material of the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut, with some additional parts being made of granite and sandstone.
LIMESTONE
500
It’s the name for the bowling pin shaped crown of Upper Egypt, seen on some statues of Menkaure and on Osiris in the Judgment of Huh-Nefer.
HEDJET
500
Senenmut was the chief architect in the employ of this ruler of Egypt.
HATSHEPSUT
500
It’s the name of the hippopotamus-crocodile monster waiting to eat the ka of any guilty human in the Last Judgment of Huh-Nefer.
AMMUT
500
Though most of its pharaohs were named Thutmose, it also included Akhenaten and Nefertiti, as well as their son Tutankhamun.
The 18th DYNASTY
500
This Frenchman foolishly wiped the Running Horned Woman of Tassili Na’ijjer with sponges.
Henri LHOTE
500
His name in hieroglyphics means “painful catfish,” or so the inscription between the bulls of Hathor shows.
NARMER
600
DAILY DOUBLE!
This god is the scribe who records the verdict of the scales in the Last Judgment of Huh-Nefer. He has the head of an ibis.
600
It’s the inlaid blue color on the burial mask of Tutankhamun and the Standard of Ur.
LAPIS LAZULI
600
This is the term for the Egyptian principle of cosmic justice, symbolized by a feather in the Last Judgment of Huh Nefer.
MAAT
600
Queen Khamerernebty II is depicted in gleaming black stone next to her husband, this 4th dynasty Pharaoh.
MENKAURE
600
The columns of the Apadana are topped with sculptures of these animals, which also adorn the Ishtar Gate of Babylon.
BULLS or OXEN
600
This was the last ruling dynasty of pharaohs of Egypt before it became part of the Roman Empire.
PTOLEMAIC/PTOLEMIES
600
Xenophon marched his Greek soldiers right over the sand that covered this city. It was the capital of Assyria under Ashurbanipal, and included his library and the lion hunt reliefs.
NINEVEH
600
George Rawlinson deciphered the Behistun Inscription, which was carved on a huge cliff in Iran by order of this king of Persia.
DARIUS I (the Great)