Starter quiz
- If you lived in Ancient Egypt, and you understood how to write hieroglyphs, what job would you most likely have?
- 'scribe' ✓
- What was found near Rosetta in 1799?
- an ancient ruin
- a basalt stele ✓
- a recent shipwreck
- an old diary
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- What did archaeologists spend their time doing for more than 20 years after finding the Rosetta stone?
- polishing it
- photographing it
- translating it ✓
- displaying it
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- Put these events in the order that they happened, starting with the earliest.
- 1⇔Ancient Egyptians carved text into a stele.
- 2⇔French soldiers went to inspect an old fort.
- 3⇔A chunk of carved rock was discovered in a wall.
- 4⇔The rock was removed and studied by archaeologists.
- 5⇔The rock was part of a stele which became known as the Rosetta Stone.
- 6⇔The text on the stele was translated.
- 7⇔The Rosetta Stone was put on display in a museum.
- As time passed, why did scribes change the writing system in Ancient Egypt?
- They wanted to use less ink.
- There were too many different hieroglyphs to remember.
- The pharaoh demanded that they changed it.
- They wanted to make it quicker and easier to write down information. ✓
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- In Ancient Egypt, what type of writing always used traditional, detailed hieroglyphs?
- religious messages ✓
- numbers and counting
- maps and directions
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Exit quiz
- What was the Ancient Egyptian word for the soul?
- 'ba' ✓
- Which Egyptian god led souls to the afterlife?
- Ra
- Toth
- Anubis ✓
- Shu
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- What would you expect to find in a canopic jar?
- fruit and vegetables
- insects and bugs
- gold coins
- internal organs ✓
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- Match the words to their definitions.
- pharaoh⇔a ruler and god in human form ✓
- mummification⇔process of the preservation of dead bodies ✓
- soul⇔centre of human thought and feeling ✓
- hieroglyph⇔an Egyptian symbol used for writing ✓
- When a dead body is treated with salts, oils and herbs, what is this process called?
- embalming ✓
- mummifying
- burying
- entombing
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- What type of cloth were bodies wrapped in in Ancient Egypt?
- cotton
- linen ✓
- silk
- wool
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Key learning points
- The Ancient Egyptians believed in many gods; one of these was Anubis, who guided the souls of the dead to the afterlife.
- The Ancient Egyptians believed that when they died they would go to the afterlife if they had pleased the gods.
- They believed that everybody had a soul, and that when somone was dead, their soul returned to their body each night.
- This led them to try and preserve dead bodies with linen and by drying them in sand but with only partial success.
- By the end of the Old Kingdom they had started to embalm and mummify the bodies, placing the organs in canopic jars.
Common misconception
That mummification is just a case of wrapping a body in bandages and burying it.
There are several stages in the mummification process, each of which must be done precisely and carefully in order to be successful.
Keywords
Afterlife - Ancient Egyptians believed that there was life after death which they called the afterlife
Soul - Ancient Egyptians believed that the soul is a part of a human, that it is separate from the body and that it is the centre of feeling and thought
Ba - the Ancient Egyptians used the word ba for someone's soul
Mummification - preserving a dead body through embalming and cloth wrapping is known as mummification
Canopic jars - the Ancient Egyptians placed a dead person's organs inside canopic jars during the mummification process
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