Art of Ancient Egypt 2 Answers

The Book of the Dead _____________

The entrance to the tomb of Rameses II is guarded by 4 massive stone figures, as shown in the picture above. Who/what are the four figures representative of?

Ancient Egyptian _____________ used both logographic and alphabetic elements.

In the Book of the Dead, Ammit is ________________________

Which of the following discoveries offered the most help to historians in understanding ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics?

The Rosetta Stone When examining the Rosetta Stone, a French scholar found Ptolomy and Cleopatra's names written in Demotic, an Egyptian language, and was able to match those names to the Greek writing on the Stone. In this flash of insight, it was discovered that the same information was written in three languages, Demotic, Greek and ___________. After this discovery, the tablet was decoded over three years.

The entrance to the tomb of Rameses II is unique because ______________

King Tutankhamun’s tomb was found __________________

This is a drawn diagram of the Rosetta Stone. In each section, A, B, and C, a similar text was written, but in different languages. The text in section A was written in which of the following languages?

This is an image of the first successive stage, from the Book of the Dead. Which of the following describes this stage the most accurately?

__________________ was a major accomplishment of both Tutankhamun and Rameses II.

King Tutankhamun’s body lay in three nesting coffins, with the innermost coffin being made of 240 pounds of ___________.