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What evidence is there for ports-of-trade associated with the Phenician expansion to the Central and Western Mediterranean between 900-700 BC?

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Discuss the evolution of anthropoid coffins during the New Kingdom

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Discuss the private tombs of the Old Kingdom

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Discuss the royal tombs of the Third Intermediate Period

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Discuss the development of funerary books used in private burials

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Discuss the evolution of the shabti figure

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Discuss New Kingdom royal mortuary temples

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In what ways is the reign of Senwosret III significant in the history of Egyptian funerary monuments?

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What elements and items went to make up the idea tomb for a Theban noble in the New Kingdom? How do they fit into the overall context of Egyptian funerary archaeology?

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What is the significance of the orientations of the various elements of Egyptian tombs?

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Assess the place of the funerary monuments of Hatsheput in the overall context of royal tomb development during the New Kingdom

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Give an overview of the development of royal funerary monuments during the Old Kingdom: how far do they reflect changes in conceptions of the king’s posthumous destiny, and how far are they simply a case of architectural evolution?

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The Amarna Period is a fault line in the evolution of the funerary monuments of the New Kingdom: discuss.

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Can we talk of a single, homogenous Minoan-Mycenaean religion?

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Discuss the evidence for the invocation of deities in the iconography of the Aegean Bronze Age

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How important were temples for the religions of ancient Greece?

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Discuss private tombs of the New Kingdom

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Discuss the evolution of the funerary mask

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Discuss Old Kingdom royal mortuary temples

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What elements and items went to make up the ideal tomb for a noble in the Old Kingdom? How do they fit into the overall context of Egyptian funerary archaeology?

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Give an overview of the development of royal funerary monuments during the first three dynasties: how far might they reflect changes in conceptions of the king’s posthumous destiny, and how far are they simply a case of architectural ‘evolution’

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What can Linear A and Linear B inscriptions tell us about the extent of literacy in the Aegean Bronze Age?

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What processes underlie the ‘Minoanization’ of the Aegean in the Neopalatial period?

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What were the effects of the Thera/Santorini eruption on the development f Minoan society?

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What are the current hypothesis to explain the Pheonician expansion to the western Mediterranean from 900-700 BC?
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Discuss tombs of the Early Dynastic Period
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Discuss the royal tombs of the Middle Kingdom
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Discuss the changes in the practice of mummification down to the end of the Third Intermediate Period
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Describe the development of royal coffins and sarcophagi during the Eighteenth Dynasty
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Discuss the evolution of the royal mortuary temple
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Discuss the New Kingdom rock cut private tombs at Thebes
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Give an overview of the history of the Thebes necropolis
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Give an overview of the history of the Saqqara necropolis
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Give an overview of the Abydos necropolis
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Why has the Bronze Age civilization of Crete been dubbed 'Minoan'?
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Discuss the objects famously worn by Sophia Schliemann
-Jewellery dubbed 'Priam's Treasure', excavated by her husband Henry Schliemann in the 19th century at Hisarlik, Turkey/Anatolia, thought to be the site of Troy. Named after a Homeric King, although the site and the Jewels have now both been found to be too early to fit in with Homer's stories of Troy.
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Discuss boar tusk helmets
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Who was the architect of the first pyramid?
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Name two of the protective goddesses of the dead
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Who was the architect of the first tomb to be built in the Valley of the Kings?
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Name one proposed meaning of the rishi coffin
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Where was the first 'yellow' coffin apparently made?
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At which site were the last pyramids in the Egyptian tradition built?
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Which was the earleist of the 'Books of the Underworld' to appear on a burial chamber wall?
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What is unusual about some tomb-chapels at Beni Hasan?
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Name the three elements of the ideal Egyptian tomb
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What is distinctive about the substructures of early/mid 19th Dynasty private tombs at Thebes?
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Which king appears to have built up to ten pyramids?
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Which letter describes the shape of a typical New Kingdom tomb chapel?
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Who was the last king to rule the whole of Egypt to build a pyramid?
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What elements and items went to make up the ideal tomb for a noble in the Old Kingdom? How do they fit into the overall context of Egyptian funerary archaeology?
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How do the royal tombs of the Third Intermediate Period relate to those of the New Kingdom?
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Whose tomb was identified during the Middle Kingdom as that of Osiris?
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Which organ was under the guardianship of Qebehsenuef?
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Who was the architect of the first pyramid?
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Who was the first king of Egypt to be buried away from Abydos?
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Which area comprised the highest status burial place at Thebes during the latter part of the Third Intermediate Period?
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Compare and contrast the offering places of Archaic, Old Kingdom and New Kingdom tombs and funerary complexes
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Who were the Minoans?
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Why have some scholars considered the term 'palace' problematic as applied to certain Minoan building?
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Name two types of hieroglyph other than alphabetic
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Name two of the four sons of Horus
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What was the title of the publication by the scholars of Bonaparte's Egyptian expedition?
-Description De L'Egypte, 1809
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What is happening to the floor level of an Egyptian temples as one proceeds towards the sanctuary?
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Name two of the Egyptian funerary texts or books
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What are the two fundamental elements that comprise an ideal Egyptian tomb?
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What are the magical servants of the dead known as?
Shabtis
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Who were the parents of the last ancient king of independent Egypt
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Which Ptolemaic priest set out the dynastic structure used to arrange Egypt's kings?
Manetho?
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Which king re-unified Egypt at the end of the First Intermediate Period
Mentuhotep II
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What was the first capital of the united Egypt?
Memphis
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What are the two terms used for a town mound in Egypt?
Tell, Tepe, Huyuk
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Name two of the pre-Ptolemaic King Lists
Turin and Seti I (Karnak)
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Name two of the creatures into which the sun-god Re transmogrified during his daily cycle?
Dung beetle, Falcon (?), Ram
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Which Upper Egyptian village gives its name to a prehistoric culture?
Naqada
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What was the ancient name of the capital of the Twelfth Dynasty kings
Itjtawi
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Which battle was particularly important for Rameses II?
Qadesh
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What was the profession of all three of Tutankamun's successors?
Generals
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What was the principal national capital of the Third Intermediate Period?
Tanis
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Which British bishop travelled to Egypt in the 18th century?
Pococke
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Which tributary of the Nile feeds the Fayoum?
Bahr Yusef
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Who led the great Prussian expedition?
Lepsius
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Which king is particularly associated with the Second Cataract forts?
Senwosret II
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Which was the capital of the Ninth/Tenth Dynasty?
Herakleopolis
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Name the victor of the civil wars of the late Second Dynasty
Djoser
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Name the longest reigning king of Egyptian history
Pepy II
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What Nubian culture was one of the foes of the Egyptian kings of the Second Intermediate Period?
Kerma
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What is the significance of the Island of Bigeh?
The Nile is believed to (mythologically) stem from underneath this Island. A creature known as Harpi lives here, which is the physical manifestation of the inundation of the Nile
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Pros and Cons of the Inundation?
Too low - Cannot water crops, silt which normally is dispersed on fields after the inundation is not deposited, leading to famine Too high- flooding, destruction of houses and crops, massive infrastructure damage
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In what ways were the heights of the Nile measured and recorded
- Annals - Palermo Stone and other king lists - Nileometers e.g. Temple of Karnak, Aswan
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Who built a temple at Deir el-Bahari?
Hatsheput
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Which ruler had the Rosetta Stone made?
Ptolemy V
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Who was the first native Egyptian Professor of Egyptology?
Selim Hassan
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Who founded the Egyptian Antiquites Service?
Mariette
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Which English physicist was involed in deciphering the Rosetta Stone?
Thomas Young
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Name the first Egyptian Egyptologist
Ahmed Kamal
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Which novelist played a key role in the foundation of the Egypt Exploration Fund?
Amelia Edwards
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To which Dynasty does Khufu belong
4th
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Which of these professions was NOT pursued by Belzoni?
Prize fighter. He was a strongman, engineer and excavator.
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In which decade were hieroglyphs finally deciphered?
1820s, by Young but mostly Champillion
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Where is the last known ancient hieroglyphic inscription?
Philae
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Who was responsible for most of the rock cut temples of Nubia?
Rameses II
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Which dynasty has all but one king called Amenemhat or Senwosret?
12th
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Who was the last native ruler of Egypt?
Nektanebo II
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Where did the ancient Egyptians believe that the Inundation originated
Bigeh Island, Aswan
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What were the key differences between the decoration of tomb-chapels of the period before Akhenaten and those constructed after his death?
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Which king was the last one known to have been buried in a rishi coffin?
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What was the earliest of the Books of the Underworld to appear on a burial chamber wall?
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Which king's funerary complex was inspired by that of Djoser?
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Which area comprised the highest status burial place at Thebes during the first part of the Third Intermediate Period
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In which dynasty are the internal organs first known to have been placed in canopic containers
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Which king introduced an entrance staircase to the royal tomb?
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Who was the last king to build a tomb at Abydos?
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Discuss the evidence for the existence of a monotheistic religion in Bronze Age Crete, and the reasons why this notion continues to appeal
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