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Ancient Eqyptian Quiz
#21
RE: Ancient Eqyptian Quiz
I missed two.  Cleopatra VII's servants? 4 canopic jars?  Seriously?  And yeah, Moses got stuck in there.  (snort - smh)
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#22
RE: Ancient Eqyptian Quiz
Quote:Cleopatra VII's servants?

They were in the movie.  Rex Harrison even kissed one.
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#23
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got 10. Not bad, not great
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#24
RE: Ancient Eqyptian Quiz
7

Ok, no surprise there...
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#25
RE: Ancient Eqyptian Quiz
8.......
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#26
RE: Ancient Eqyptian Quiz
(May 30, 2016 at 8:59 am)Constable Dorfl Wrote: Twelve, though I expect my historical quizzes not to ask me about fictional characters. And no Moses didn't lead the jews out of Egypt, they were never there until much later, and probably didn't exist as a separate group at that time.

The three I got wrong were Cleo's burial place (I actually misclicked, had guessed the other wrong answer), the handmaidens and the canoptic jars. Those three were significantly harder than the rest. Some of them, such as where the Nile rose or how often it flooded need no historical knowledge.
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#27
RE: Ancient Eqyptian Quiz
Got an 8.
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#28
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14/15. As a history major I'd be disappointed if I did worse (though Ancient Egypt wasn't a period I studied extensively.) I missed the question about Hatshepsut's burial.
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#29
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(May 30, 2016 at 11:37 pm)Cecelia Wrote: 14/15.  As a history major I'd be disappointed if I did worse (though Ancient Egypt wasn't a period I studied extensively.)  I missed the question about Hatshepsut's burial.

I think I got that one because I find that particular building fascinating.
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#30
RE: Ancient Eqyptian Quiz
Hatshepsut's mortuary temple is perhaps the most distinctively elegant building from ancient Egypt that we know of.  So someone with just slightly more than passing interest in ancient Egypt ought to know it.

Moses might be fiction, but the story is critical to Egyptology anyway because that story, directly or indirectly, made ancient Egypt both the earliest ancient civilization outside of Greece and Rome to be seriously studied with modern archeology, and hold a special interest to the public early on. This is why ancient Egypt is more deep rooted in modern popular culture than perhaps any other ancient civilization, including possibly even Greece and Rome.

There is no accounting for why the names of cleopatra' hand maiden is of any interest. One might as well ask for the name of the emptier of Tutmose III's spittoon. Also, I don't really consider Ptolemaic dynasty really Egyptian, or cleopatra in any way the last pharoah.  That boat sailed centuries before Rex Harrison unrolled the carpet.
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