Cities of Vesuvius
The name of the region of Mount Vesuvius
What is Campania?
The name of the largest Minoan palace in Crete.
What is Knossos?
What is Deir el-bahri?
The Thebeian god.
The three types of Minoan tombs
What are:
- Chamber tombs
- Tholos tombs
- Rectangular tombs
The name of the town block in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
What is an insulae?
The archaeologists who named the ancient civilisation the Minoans.
What is Arthur Evans?
The names of Hatshepsut's parents.
What is Thutmose I and Queen Ahmose?
The Pharaoh who expelled the Hyksos and united Egypt to create the 18th Dynasty.
What is Ahmose I?
The male figurine found at Palaikastro, burnt and smashed but of incredible quality.
What is the Palikastro Kouros
The meat and fish market in the Forum in Pompeii.
What is the Macellum?
The name of the double axe symbol seen around Minoan artefacts.
What is the labrys?
The religious justification for Hatshepsut becoming pharaoh.
What is the Divine Birth Scene?
The governor of Nubia.
What is the Viceroy of Kush?
The name of the three types of columns that represented Greek architecture.
What is Doric, Ionic and Corithian.
The large forecourt of a Roman house which contained the household shrine.
What is the Atrium?
Small figurines left at peak sanctuaries and caves to wish for good fortune.
What are votive offerings?
The location of Hatshepsut's most famous and successful trade expedition.
What is Punt?
The two pharaohs who maintained the 'empire' instead of expanding it.
Who are Amenhotep II and Thutmose IV
The powerful official who Hatshepsut made vizier and head of the cult of Amun.
What is Hapusoneb?
The important civic patron of Herculaneum, seen in a statue on horseback.
Who is Marcus Nonius Balbus
The Minoan myth where a father and son escaped King Minos.
The lioness god in which Hatshepsut associated herself with.
What is Pakhet?
The significant battle which defeated the armies of the Kadesh.
The name of the Mitannian King who Thutmose IV negotiated an alliance with.
What is Artatama?