Ancient Egypt Trivia

1. Which animal was the goddess "Bastet" originally associated with?

From Quiz Ancient Egypt: The Great Civilization of the Nile

Answer: Lioness

Bastet (earlier known as Bast), or Ailuros in the ancient Greek religion, was worshipped as the goddess of love, fertility, sex, joy, mystery, magic, music, the sun, and most notably, cats, throughout most of Ancient Egyptian history. At first, she was a lioness god, but as time went on, the cat became her totem animal. Sekhment, another Egyptian goddess, was considered her alter ego, as she depicted the fighter aspect of Bastet.

From Quiz Tales of Amarna

Answer: Akhenaten

Amenhotep IV, a younger son of Amenhotep III, was not in line to be pharaoh - his older brother Thutmose was the crown prince. When Thutmose died at a fairly young age, however, Amenhotep became his father's heir. In 2014 it was announced that evidence had been uncovered that suggested that both ruled together for eight years before Amenhotep IV became pharaoh in his own right. For five years he ruled Egypt and began building temples to the god Aten (solar disk) in the capital city; then he changed his name to Akhenaten, which means "Effective for Aten", and began work on a new capital city called Akhetaten, or "Horizon of the Aten". The modern name of the city, Amarna, is taken from the Beni Amran tribe that lived in the area in the past.

From Quiz Ancient Egypt

Answer: Respiratory problems

Respiratory problems were caused by the sand and they didn't have a cure for the problems but the coughing was soothed with a mixture of herbs and honey. There were frequent outbreaks of tuberculosis.

From Quiz Egyptology

Answer: French soldiers

The Rosetta Stone is a black granite stele, discovered in 1799 at the village of el-Rashid (Rosetta) in the Nile Delta by some French soldiers of Napoleon who were strengthening the wall of a fort. The Rosetta Stone was critical in deciphering the hieroglyphs because it contained a text in three different scripts, hieroglyphic, demotic (a form of popular, commonly used script), and finally Greek. It was this last one, which being known, permitted the deciphering of the text. The Rosetta Stone is now in the British Museum in London, as the French had to give it up to the British as spoils of war.

From Quiz Ancient Egyptian Burials

Answer: They believed they would act as servants to the deceased in the afterlife.

Shabti figures have hieroglyphs written on them. The Ancient Egyptians believed that when these spells were read out they would cause the shabtis to awaken and do their masters' bidding.

From Quiz A Great Egyptian Adventure

Answer: limestone

In order to cut this limestone, wooden wedges were placed inside of cracks. Water was then poured over the wood to make them expand to crack the stone and eventually split it.

From Quiz Ancient Egyptian Civilization

Answer: Imhotep

Imhotep was the architect and construction leader of the Step Pyramid at Saqqara.

From Quiz Mummy's the Word!

Answer: 3

Mummification procedures varied according to how much money a person had to spend. The cheapest procedure involved the intestines being purged with a clyster syringe of cedar oil, with the body drying out afterwards for seventy days. Secondly, a body could be injected with cedar tree oil after all passages were blocked. Internal organs would be liquified, and the resulting liquid would be flushed from the body. After being dried, all that was left was bones and skin. Lastly, the third and most expensive procedure involved the process of removing the organs and drying the body. Egyptians who could not afford mummification were buried in the sand. Ironically, the heat and sand dried them naturally. Some of the mummies buried in the sand have been found in remarkable condition.

From Quiz Valleys of the Royal Dead

Answer: Paradise was thought of as a lush field

For the Egyptians, the ideal paradise, life after death, would be spent in the Field of Reeds, dwelling with the gods, surrounded by lush vegetation and life-giving water. While the physical Valley was a place of great desolation and starkness, those who were buried there, by virtue of their death, were already dwelling in the Great Field and enjoying bliss.

From Quiz Bronze Age Egypt

Answer: Hecataeus

The river was the Nile. Egypt's entire society was centered around this river and its yearly flood. Hecataeus was a Greek traveler who lived between the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.

From Quiz Ancient Egyptian History

Answer: Pyramid at Giza

This strike occurred in 2550 BC because the workers were not receiving their payment of garlic. These people were not slaves, who didn't exist in Egypt until the New Kingdom, so they were expecting to get paid.

From Quiz Mastabas

Answer: tomb

They were rectangular buildings with flat tops and sloping sides. Those made of mud-brick were usually decorated with stucco.

From Quiz All about Mummification

Answer: in the desert

They buried the dead in small pits in the desert. Because it was so hot and dry, the bodies dehydrated, creating lifelike and natural 'mummies'.

From Quiz Ancient Egypt : Part 3

Answer: Giovanni Belzoni

He discovered the tomb in 1871. When he found the sarcophagus it was empty. Seti's mummy was found years later at Deir el-Bahri by Emile Brugsch.

From Quiz Ancient Egypt : Part 2

Answer: Fish

According to the Egyptian 'Calender of Lucky and Unlucky Days' fish was considered unclean and it has been suggested that eating fish may have been considered unsuitable for a state of religious purity because it caused the breath to smell. Another version of this also claims that it was unsuitable because of its association with the sea, which was regarded as a place of chaos. So on unlucky days fish was prohibited more than any other food.

From Quiz Ancient Egypt : Part 1

Answer: Abydos

Abydos used to be one of the most sacred sites in Egypt. Because of the association of Osiris to Abydos it also became an important cemetery site. When the kings started being buried elsewhere, they often had cenotaphs built at Abydos to identify with Osiris.

From Quiz All About Ancient Egypt

Answer: 7

After being embalmed, the body is then strapped in 7 pieces of linen to prevent any damage.

From Quiz Those Awesome Egyptians

Answer: 3100 BC

The first dynasty of Ancient Egypt started around 3200 BC and the period is called "The Old Kingdom".

From Quiz Act Like an Egyptian

Answer: Khemet

Aigyptos is Greek and is actually derived from the Egyptian name for the city of Memphis, Hiku-Ptah. Kush is an area below the third cataract of the Nile that was intermittenly part of the Egyptian empire. It is also called Nubia. Misr or Masr is the Arabic word for Egypt.

From Quiz The "Hidden One" and His Worshippers

Answer: Amon (or Amun or Amen)

Amon was an obscure god of the minor city of Thebes until the middle kingdom when he and his city became very important. He was known as 'he who is hidden' and was a god of the wind and air but later took over aspects of other gods particularly the sun god Re and the fertility god Min. His more common sacred creature was a horned ram. Meretseger (or she who loves silence) was the cobra goddess whose realm included the Valley of the Kings in Thebes.

From Quiz Life in Ancient Egypt

Answer: Senet

Menna was a scribe of the late 14th century, mastabas are flat-topped slopped-sided tombs, and Monopoly was invented in 1934 by Charles B. Darrow of Germantown, Pennsylvania.

From Quiz The Wonderful Egyptians

Answer: goddess

Bastet was an ancient Egyptian cat-goddess in the Eastern Delta. She is shown as a woman with a cat's head. The Egyptians worshipped Bastet, the wild cat, which was known for hunting and killing rodents.

From Quiz Ancient Egypt

Answer: Horizon of the Aten

It means Horizon of the Aten, and he called it this because as the sun (or sun disk - Aten) rose it was always visible on the horizon.

From Quiz An Ancient Egyptian Lexicon

Answer: pyramidion

The pyramidion, also known as a "benbenet" in ancient Egyptian, was the capstone placed at the very top of a pyramid or an obelisk. Made of granite or limestone and often covered in gold or electrum, the pyramidion symbolized the sun's rays and was believed to connect the earthly realm with the divine. It was considered a focal point for the deceased's soul to ascend to the heavens, reinforcing the pyramid's role as a monument to eternal life and the journey to the afterlife.

From Quiz Ancient Egypt

Answer: Leontopolis

A major feature of this site is the partly preserved earthwork enclosure.

From Quiz Egypt - Middle Period

Answer: Menthu-Hotep I

Menthu-Hotep is recognized as the founder of the 11th Dynasty and reigned for a glorious 51 years...uniting Egypt under his rule. His mummy was found near Thebes in 1827.

From Quiz Archaic and Old Egypt

Answer: Narmer

Narmer, whose reign is placed at approximately 3100 B.C., is depicted on a votive palette as the victor of a great struggle.

From Quiz Early Egyptian History and Culture II

Answer: Persia

The first pact was made with the Mitanni, but he was overthrown, and 3 generation of warfare ensued, until a pact was made again with Akhenaten.

From Quiz Early Egyptian History and Culture I

Answer: Badarian

From Quiz Curious Things About Egypt

Answer: murdered courtiers

It is believed that officials, priests and women of the royal household were sacrificed to serve their king in the afterlife.

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