The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt

Question 1

What were the pyramids used for?

Accepted Answer

Tombs for the dead

Question 2

What was placed inside the King's chamber?

Accepted Answer

A mummy of the pharaoh

Question 3

Which group of people were thought to have built the great pyramids?

Accepted Answer

slaves, the farmers

Question 4

Were all pharaohs mummies placed inside pyramids?

Accepted Answer

There are 130 pyramids in Egypt. Others were left in tombs, No. Some had tombs in the sides of valleys

Question 5

What was placed inside the Queen's chamber?

Accepted Answer

Many belongings of the pharaoh

Question 6

Why were belongings also left inside pyramids?

Accepted Answer

They wanted to take them to the afterlife

Question 7

Where were the pyramids built?

Accepted Answer

In the desert not far from the River Nile

Question 8

In which city would I find the great pyramids?

Accepted Answer

Giza

Question 9

Which of these was NOT a chamber inside the great pyramids?

Accepted Answer

The Mummy Chamber

Question 10

How would the ancient Egyptians have moved heavy stone blocks?

Accepted Answer

They would use wooden rollers

Question 11

What statue guards the great pyramid

Accepted Answer

Sphinx

Question 12

Why did pharaoh's want to be left in pyramids hen they died?

Accepted Answer

They thought it would help them get to their afterlife

Question 13

What shape were the great pyramids?

Accepted Answer

Square based pyramid

Question 14

What was inside the pyramids?

Accepted Answer

chambers or rooms

Question 15

What would the ancient Egyptians do with the entrance to the pyramid

Accepted Answer

Block it with a large stone and cove it up

Question 16

What were the pyramids made from?

Accepted Answer

limestone

Question 17

The subterranean (Underground) chamber was never finished. Why?

Accepted Answer

It might have been a decoy or a trap, It lacked oxygen

Question 18

Why are the pharaoh's belongings no longer in the pyramids?

Accepted Answer

they have been stolen by tomb robbers

Question 19

The sphinx is half human and which other creature?

Accepted Answer

Lion

Question 20

How would the ancient Egyptians get heavy stone blocks to the top of the pyramid?

Accepted Answer

They used ramps which were removed after they had finished

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