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Only continue reading once you have completed the quiz. Below, you will find the answers.





ANSWERS

Question 1:

a. Columns are read from the top downwards. Within the columns in the picture below, we read them right to left as the glyphs are facing to the right.



b. Within the column in the picture below, we read them from left to right as the glyphs are facing to the left.


c. Within the rows in the picture below, we read them from right to left as the glyphs are facing to the right.


Question 2: May you be given eternal life (read right to left): 𓋹 𓏙


Question 3:

Thoth is Born (left cartouche)
Great is the Manifestation of Ra (right cartouche)
Ra is the sun god represented by a circle. Thoth is the god of writing and intelligence, represented by the ibis whose beak looks like the long pen used by scribes.



Question 4: Beloved of Ptah, Maat is satisfied.
Ptah is a creator god, also connected with crafts and architecture. He is commonly depicted as a man with green skin and holding a sceptre. Maat is the goddess of truth, justice and cosmic order. She is always depicted wearing an upright feather on her head.



Question 5: Seti I, 2nd Pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty.

The cartouche on the left says: Eternal is the Truth of Ra (or Established is the Truth of Ra). This is his throne name.
The cartouche on the right says: Seti, Beloved of Ptah. This is his birth name.




Question 6:





Question 7: May you be given eternal life, wealth, happiness and stability forever.
𓏙 𓋹 𓍑 𓋴 𓊽 𓆖


Question 8: The female figure is wearing the Vulture crown.



Question 9: The god Horus is wearing the combined crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.




Question 10: Ra (sun god), beautiful (or good), ka (soul).



Question 11:

B. Ruler of the Maat, like Ra, the chosen one of Amun.



Question 12: These are the symbols for upper and lower Egypt, combined into one kingdom by Narmer in about 3,100 BC. The symbols indicate that the cartouche contains the name of the Pharaoh who refers to him as ruler of the combined kingdom of Egypt.


Question 13: The duck and circle mean 'Son of Ra.' The duck is the glyph for 'son.' The circle, reminiscent of the shape of the sun, is the symbol for Ra (the sun god). This name symbolised the Pharaohs’ divine lineage as a god on earth and their central role in the cosmic order.






Question 14: Read from right to left, 'Forever [given] life, stability and dominion (power).'

Carved blessing.



Question 15:
𓄣 𓄤 𓆄
heart beautiful truth = beautiful heart of truth



Question 16: The weighing of the heart to judge whether it is light with truth and the deceased is worthy of entering the afterlife with the gods.



Question 17: Ra, the sun god, powers his barque through the underworld at night, fighting off enemies that try to prevent him from bringing the sun back the next day.



Question 18: Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty, built this beautiful mortuary temple at Deir-el-Bahari.



Question 19: 𓊹𓌃𓏪 means 'the gods’ words', i.e. the hieroglyphs!

𓊹 = god 𓌃 = word/speak 𓏪 = plural




Question 20: