Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues — Class 11 MCQs with Answers

Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues — important questions & MCQs with answers (Class 11 English)

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1. Q1 of 2Medium

   Besides gold treasures, what everyday things was Tut buried with?

   ABoard games, a bronze razor, linen undergarments, cases of food and wineBBooks and writing tabletsCWeapons and chariots onlyDFarming tools
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   Answer: Board games, a bronze razor, linen undergarments, cases of food and wine

   Explanation: 'Tut was also buried with everyday things he'd want in the afterlife: board games, a bronze razor, linen undergarments, cases of food and wine.'

2. Q2 of 2Medium

   Who was Amenhotep III?

   ATut's father or grandfather, who ruled for almost four decadesBTut's sonCA British archaeologistDThe god of the sun disk
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   Answer: Tut's father or grandfather, who ruled for almost four decades

   Explanation: 'Amenhotep III — Tut's father or grandfather — was a powerful pharaoh who ruled for almost four decades at the height of the eighteenth dynasty's golden age.'

Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues notes: key concepts (Class 11 English)

A. R. Williams's account of King Tutankhamun's mummy leaving its tomb for a CT scan in 2005 — and of how archaeology itself changed between Howard Carter's 1922 excavation and modern medical imaging.

The scan

At 6 p.m. on 5 January 2005 the mummy was taken from the Valley of the Kings for a CT scan — its first departure from the tomb in almost 80 years.

Who Tut was

A teenager when he died more than 3,300 years ago, the last heir of a family that had ruled Egypt and its empire for centuries, buried laden with gold and eventually forgotten.

Howard Carter

The British archaeologist who discovered the tomb in 1922 after years of futile searching. Its contents, though ransacked in antiquity, remain the richest royal collection ever found.

Everyday burial goods

Besides the gold, Tut was buried with things he would want in the afterlife: board games, a bronze razor, linen undergarments, and cases of food and wine.

Carter's problem

Ritual resins had hardened and cemented the mummy to the bottom of its solid gold coffin. 'No amount of legitimate force could move them.'

The sun and the chisel

He left the mummy in blazing sun that heated it to 149 degrees Fahrenheit — nothing budged. The consolidated material then had to be chiselled away from beneath the limbs and trunk.

Dismemberment and defence

Carter's men removed the head and severed nearly every major joint to free the gold, then reassembled the remains on sand in a wooden box. The defence: thieves would otherwise have ripped it apart.

The 1968 X-ray

More than 40 years after the discovery, an anatomy professor X-rayed the mummy and found that beneath the resin the breast-bone and front ribs were missing.

How CT works

Hundreds of cross-section X-rays are assembled 'like slices of bread' into a three-dimensional virtual body. The scan produced 1,700 images, the head in 0.62 millimetre slices.

Amenhotep IV becomes Akhenaten

Tut's predecessor promoted the worship of the Aten, took the name 'servant of the Aten', moved the religious capital from Thebes to Akhetaten (Amarna), and attacked the god Amun.

Tutankhamun's restoration

After the brief reign of Smenkhkare, the boy Tutankhaten took the throne, changed his name to Tutankhamun — 'living image of Amun' — and restored the old ways. He reigned about nine years.

The Egyptian Mummy Project

Begun in late 2003, it had recorded almost 600 mummies and was still counting. The portable CT machine was donated by the National Geographic Society and Siemens.