Tombs, Treasure and a Boy King: teacher key

Ancient Egypt, grade 9 edition, written for 9th grade. From pyramids to hidden rock tombs, how bodies were preserved, who robbed the tombs, and how one young king's tomb was found in 1922.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. Where were New Kingdom pharaohs buried?
   • In the Giza pyramids
   • In rock tombs in the Valley of the Kings (answer)
   • At sea
2. What did embalmers use to dry a body?
   • Beeswax
   • Salt water from the Nile
   • Natron (answer)
3. Why might Carter's experts have been wrong?
   • Tutankhamun's tomb had not been raided or found (answer)
   • The valley was empty
   • Treasure hunters had won
4. When did Carter find Tutankhamun's tomb?
   • 1799
   • 2005
   • November 1922 (answer)
5. Who found the valley's first unknown tomb since Tutankhamun's?
   • Howard Carter
   • A team led by Otto Schaden (answer)
   • Horemheb
6. What is true about the Curse of Tutankhamun?
   • It has no basis in fact (answer)
   • It killed Carter
   • It was proven

Words

• embalmers: body preservers
• natron: drying salt
• resin: sticky tree sap
• amulets: lucky charms
• canopic: for organs