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Penn Museum Web SearchKristen Boone
Diana D’AndreaRichard Rehmann
Directions
• Each row is a team.• A question will be presented on the slide. You
will have until the music stops to answer the question.
• You may discuss the answer with group members before responding.
• You may also use the website: http://www.penn.museum to find the correct answer.
• The team with the most correct answers wins!
The Amarna Period
The Amarna Period
Who founded Amarna?
The Amarna Period
Pharaoh Akhena
ten
The Amarna Period
What is Akhenaten often referred to as? Also, what change
did he make in religious practices?
The Amarna Period
“Heretic” Pharaoh
He introduced
monotheism
The Amarna Period
What is the name of the Solar Deity?
The Amarna Period
Aten
The Amarna Period
Who discovered King Tut’s
Tomb?
The Amarna Period
Howard Carter
The Amarna Period
What is the name of the lioness-
headed goddess?
The Amarna Period
Sekhmet
Chinese Rotunda
Chinese Rotunda
How tall is the Chinese
Rotunda?
Chinese Rotunda
90 feet
Chinese Rotunda
What is said to be descended from a lion and a dragon?
Chinese Rotunda
Qilin
Chinese Rotunda
When was Buddhism
imported from India?
Chinese Rotunda
2nd Century
, CE
Chinese Rotunda
Which Buddha protects against
natural calamities?
Chinese Rotunda
Tejaprabha
Chinese Rotunda
What two texts were integral in the
spread of Buddhism within China?
Chinese Rotunda
Lotus SutraVimalakirti
Nirdesa Sutra
Secrets and Science of Mummies
Secrets and Science of Mummies
Why did the Egyptians desire to preserve the human body after death?
Secrets and Science of Mummies
So that they could fully take part in
the after life.
Secrets and Science of Mummies
What were the 4 qualities that made up the being of a person, according
to Egyptians?
Secrets and Science of Mummies
AkhKaBa
Ren
Secrets and Science of Mummies
How did original mummification
begin?
Secrets and Science of Mummies
Naturally:A combination of the hot sun, a dry climate, and sand filled graves caused bodies to dry
out and become preserved.
Secrets and Science of Mummies
How long did artificial
mummification take?
Secrets and Science of Mummies
70 days
Secrets and Science of Mummies
What is a shabtis?
Secrets and Science of Mummies
A small human-shaped statue
that was thought to come to life and perform work for the deceased in
the after life.
Worlds Intertwined: Greeks, Romans, and Etruscans
Worlds Intertwined: Greeks, Romans, and Etruscans
When did the Etruscans rule the central part of the Italic Peninsula?
Worlds Intertwined: Greeks, Romans, and Etruscans
8th to 6th Centuries, BCE
Worlds Intertwined: Greeks, Romans, and Etruscans
Where did the Etruscans gain
their wealth from?
Worlds Intertwined: Greeks, Romans, and Etruscans
Rich mines
and trade with the Greeks.
Worlds Intertwined: Greeks, Romans, and Etruscans
What were the Greeks known
as?
Worlds Intertwined: Greeks, Romans, and Etruscans
Merchants of the Mediterranean.
Worlds Intertwined: Greeks, Romans, and Etruscans
Who conquered the East as far
as India?
Worlds Intertwined: Greeks, Romans, and Etruscans
Alexander the Great
Worlds Intertwined: Greeks, Romans, and Etruscans
Who founded the city of Rome in
753 BCE?
Worlds Intertwined: Greeks, Romans, and Etruscans
Romulus