Terms
The study of ancient culture centered around the the Nile river.
What is Egyptology?
A modern copy of an ancient artifact.
What is a Replica?
Tool for digging at archaeological site for reaching different strata.
What is a shovel?
Adventist Archaeologist who found cuneiform list of Assyrian kings.
Who is Zigfried Horn?
A stone found in Egypt by Napoleon troops with demotic, Greek, and hieroglyphic writings.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
The study of Mesopotamia and related cultures that used cuneiform writing.
What is Assyriology?
A place where digging has resulted in ancient artifacts.
What is an Archaeological site?
Used for scraping thin layers of soil.
What is a mason's trowel?
Known for excavating ancient Jericho.
Who is Kathleen Kenyon?
A set of writings written on leather found in 1947 in a cave in Palestine containing most of the Bible.
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
The study of ancient literature written on papyrus
What is Papyrology?
Different levels in a dig that represent different ages.
What is Stratigraphy?
Used to divide site into squares to record exact location artifact was found.
What are stakes and strings?
Founder of Egyptology and first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Who is Jean-Francois Champollion
Stone from Moabite king that records battle found in 2 Kings 3.
What is the Moabite Stone?
A writing form that uses pictures
What is Hieroglyphics?
A mound created by human occupation and abandonment.
What is a Tel?
Tool for removing fine materials from artifact.
What is a brush
American scholar known for authentication of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1948. He is also known as the Father of Biblical Archeology.
Who is William Foxwell Albright?
An Assyrian account of a flood among tablets stored in the British Museum from excavations of mid-seventh-century-BC Nineveh.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The study of different forms of ancient writing.
What is Paleography?
Wedge shaped marks on clay tablets.
What is Cuneiform?
Tool used to separate dirt from artifact.
What is a Shaker Screen?
Father of Biblical Geography
Who is Edward Robinson
Found in 1867, this tunnel connected a spring in Jerusalem to the pool of Siloam. The tunnel is recorded in 2 Samuel 5:6-8.
What is Hezekiah's tunnel?