ANCIENT EGYPT QUIZ!

How much have you learned

about this incredible ancient
civilisation? Test your
knowledge with our cool quiz!
(All the answers can be found
in our Ancient Egypt Primary
Resource!)

How old was King

1 Tutankhamun when he became
ruler of Ancient Egypt?
a) Nine b) Fourteen c) Eighteen

2 Where was Tutankhamun’s

tomb discovered in 1922?
a) The Valley of the Princes
b) The Valley of the Kings
c) The Valley of the Queens

Which of the

3
What was the name
of the English 4 following was
NOT a famous 5
Why did the
Ancient Egyptians
make mummies?
archaeologist who found Egyptian pharaoh?
King Tutankhamun’s tomb? a) To make sure dead bodies
a) Cleopatra didn’t come back to life
a) Harry Conway b) Hatshepsut
b) Hayley Cole b) To reunite the
c) Selena dead with their
c) Howard Carter
spirits in the
afterlife
c) To scare
young
children at
parties and
festivals

TUTANKHAMUN: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh is at the Saatchi Gallery in London from 2 November to 3 May 2020
 Which Ancient Egyptian
6 dog-faced deity was the
god of the dead?
a) Tefnut b) Ra c) Anubis

What mighty river flowed

7 through the heart of
Ancient Egypt?
a) The Amazon River
b) The Nile River
c) The River Thames

8
More
mummified
cats have
been found than
humans.
True or false?

What name
9 is given to
the Ancient
Egyptian alphabet
made up of 700
symbols?
a) Italics
b) Infographics
c) Hieroglyphics

Which
10 of the
following
were a set of
pyramids built
around 4,500
years ago?
a) Pyramids of Giza
b) Pyramids of Pisa
c) Pyramids of Visa

Answers: 1a, 2b, 3c, 4c, 5b, 6c, 7b, 8 true, 9c, 10a