Starter quiz
- Which ancient civilisation built the Valley of the Kings?
- Vikings
- Egyptians ✓
- Greeks
- Chinese
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- If you travel to Giza, what ancient monuments will you see there?
- pyramids ✓
- palaces
- Great Sphinx ✓
- Great Lion
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- Put the Ancient Egyptian kingdoms in order of first to last.
- 1⇔The Old Kingdom
- 2⇔The Middle Kingdom
- 3⇔The New Kingdom
What title did this person have in Ancient Egypt? Take care with your spelling.- 'pharaoh' ✓
- True or false: many Ancient Egyptians were very good at farming.
- True ✓
- False
- What happened at the Valley of the Kings?
- a large palace was built for the Egyptian kings
- the Egyptian civilisation expanded
- several great pharaohs were buried there ✓
- a river flooded the valley
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Exit quiz
- What was Howard Carter's job?
- photographer
- archaeologist ✓
- writer
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- If you are excavating something, what are you doing?
- digging something up from the past ✓
- guessing about something from the past
- travelling between historical places
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- Put these events in the order they happened, starting with the earliest.
- 1⇔Howard Carter and his team start digging at the Valley of the Kings
- 2⇔They discover hidden steps
- 3⇔They excavate around the steps
- 4⇔They discover a hidden door covered in hieroglyphs
- 6⇔Howard Carter opens the door and looks inside
- 7⇔They discover the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun
- Match the keywords to the definitions.
- tomb⇔a structure built to hold the body of a dead person ✓
- hieroglyphics⇔a kind of writing from Ancient Egypt ✓
- pharaoh⇔a ruler in Ancient Egypt ✓
- Whose tomb did Howard Carter discover?
- An Ancient Egyptian queen
- An Ancient Egyptian pharaoh called Tutankhamunn ✓
- A rich Ancient Egyptian trader
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- True or false? Within the tomb of Tutankhamun, there were rooms filled with special objects made from precious wood and metals.
- True ✓
- False
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Key learning points
- On the 6 November 1922, an excavation in the Valley of the Kings led by Howard Carter discovered something incredible.
- His team discovered a set of stone steps leading down a doorway covered in hieroglyphs.
- Inside the doorway Carter could see a room filled with beautiful objects made from precious woods and metals.
- Howard Carter and his team had discovered the tomb of an Egyptian ruler called Tutankhamun.
- He was buried with objects as Egyptians believed he needed them in the afterlife and they wanted to show off his wealth.
Common misconception
Pupils may find it hard to comprehend the slow and painstaking nature of carrying out excavations.
Carter began excavating the Valley of the Kings many years before finding Tutankhamun's tomb; they were about to give up when they found it.
Keywords
Excavation - an excavation is a project to dig something from the past out of the ground
Valley of the kings - the Valley of the Kings is a part of Egypt where many pharaohs were buried in tombs
Hieroglyphics - the Ancient Egyptians wrote using a kind of writing called hieroglyphics; each symbol and picture was called a hieroglyph
Tomb - a tomb is a structure built to hold the body of a dead person
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