British Museum

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ROOM 2 In this room you will find some prehistoric stone tools. They come from the archaeological site of Olduvai. 1. Where is Olduvai? _______________________ 2. Which stone tool is older,, the chopping tool or the handaxe? ______________________________________________________

3. How old are they? Chopping tool _______________ Handaxe___________________

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In this room you can find fin one of the oldest examples of prehistoric art What animal is represented on it? ____________________


ROOM 4 Room 4 concentrates on some sculptures from Ancient Egypt. It also contains one of the most important discoveries in the history of Archaeology, the Rosetta stone. 1. What kind of writing could be deciphered from the RossetaStone? a) Cuneiform

b) Hieroglyphs

c) Ancient Greek

2. Who was the first man able to decipher hieroglyphs? hieroglyphs _________________________________ ____________________________________

3. This sculpture represents one of the most powerful pharaos in the history of Egypt.

What was his name? ______________________________________


ROOM 18 What you can find in this room is a group of sculptures that once decorated one of the most famous temples of Greek civilization. 1. Do you know the name of that temple? ________________ 2. In what city wasit? it? ____________________

3. Why are those sculptures in the British Museum of London? _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _____________________________________ _________________________________________________________ ___________________ ____________

ROOM 24 This sculpture comes from the Easter Island, in Polynesia. 1.

What

is

the

native

name?

_________________________________________ ___________________________________ ___

2. What do these sculptures represent? _________________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________________


ROOM 55 This is the Flood Tablet. It is a part of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh was a Mesopotamian mythological hero. 1. What Biblical character acter is this Epic relatedto? a) Noah

b) Jesus

c) Moses

ROOM 56 This is the Standard of Ur. 1. Where was the city of Ur? a) Sumer. b) Akkad. A) Assyria

ROOMS62-63 These rooms are dedicated to the afterlife in the Ancient Egypt. This is a papyrus representing the judgement of Osiris. It was to show the dead what to do after passing away. 1. What was it? _______________________________ _______________________ ______________________________


ROOMS62-63 To make living in the afterlife possible, the Egyptians had to preserve the body after death. They had to mummify the bodies of the deceased. deceased

2. This is the mummy of a woman that had the same name as a famous queen of Egypt. What was her name? ____________________________________

3. Egyptian buried mummies in special boxes richly decorated. decorated They were called: a) Canopic jars. b) Coffin. c) Mastaba.

4. Egyptian also mummified pets. This is an example. Can you find any other mummified animalin anima the room? _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ ________________________________________ _________________________________________ ____________________________________ __________________


ROOM 49 This is suposed to be the first representation of Christ in the British islands. 1. What kind of technique was used? a) Mosaic. b)Sculpture. c) Painting. 2. When was it made? ___________________________ _______________

ROOM 50 This piece belongs to: a) Celcit art. b) Roman art. c) Greek art.

ROOM 70 This head represents the first Roman Emperor. What was his name? a) Caesar. b) Nero. c) Augustus.


In London, May__, 2012 Name: ___________________________________________________________

2º ESO ___ – IES ATEGUA (Castro del Río)


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