Starter quiz
- The River ______ flows through Egypt and was very important to the Ancient Egyptians.
- 'Nile' ✓
- Complete the sentence. Howard Carter was excavating in the Valley of the ______ when he discovered a hidden door.
- 'Kings' ✓
- What type of people have a job that involves digging things up to find evidence about the past?
- history teachers
- archaeologists ✓
- historians
- tour guides
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- What did the Ancient Egyptians use hieroglyphs for?
- eating
- drinking
- wearing
- writing ✓
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- Order the letters to make the word for a place where the Egyptians put the bodies of pharaohs after death.
- 1⇔t
- 2⇔o
- 3⇔m
- 4⇔b
- What was special about the door that Howard Carter discovered?
- it was made of gold
- it was covered in hieroglyphs ✓
- it was extremely small
- it was extremely large
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Exit quiz
- In which country is the port city Rosetta?
- England
- Egypt ✓
- Ecuador
- Eswatini
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- What was discovered hidden in the wall of a fort near Rosetta?
- The Rosetta Boulder
- The Rosetta Stele
- The Rosetta Rock
- The Rosetta Stone ✓
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- Complete the sentence. When you change a sentence from one language to another, you ______ it.
- 'translate' ✓
- In Ancient Egypt, whose job was it to record all written information?
- scribe ✓
- pharoah
- farmer
- soldier
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- In Ancient Egypt, what did scribes do with reeds?
- ate them for lunch
- made them into pens ✓
- played music with them
- made furniture from them
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- Put the events in the correct order, starting with the earliest.
- 1⇔French soldiers wanted to use Fort Julien as a base
- 2⇔some French soldiers were sent to inspect Fort Julien
- 3⇔a French soldier discovered the Rosetta Stone in a wall
- 4⇔archeologists used the Greek writing on the Stone to translate the hieroglyphs
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Key learning points
- In Rosetta, some hundred years before Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun, some soldiers dug up a large black stone.
- It was covered in both Greek and hieroglyphic writing; archaeologists used the Greek to translate the hieroglyphs.
- These hieroglyphs were pictures, rather than words, and there were more than 1,000 of them.
- Scribes would write in hieroglyphs to record things the pharaohs said or did and to compose religious messages.
- Over time scribes wanted to make hieroglyphs simpler and eventually they were only used for religious writings.
Common misconception
That there was one hieroglyph (picture) equivalent to each letter of the English alphabet.
The Ancient Egyptians did not have an alphabet in the same way we do today. Hieroglyphs represented sounds and sometimes whole words. There were a lot more hieroglyphs than there are letters of the alphabet.
Keywords
Rosetta - Rosetta is a city in Egypt where the Rosetta Stone was found
Translate - when someone changes one language into another, they translate it
Scribe - a scribe is someone who is trained to write or copy things
Religion - in Ancient Egypt, religion was a set of beliefs about gods, the afterlife and how to behave
Religious - something that concerns religion is described as religious
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