Whose nearly intact tomb did Howard Carter find in Egypt's Valley of the Kings in 1922?
AnswerTutankhamun
Tutankhamun's tomb, KV62, was found in 1922 still packed with thousands of objects.
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The basics
The Rosetta Stone helped scholars decipher which writing system?
AnswerEgyptian hieroglyphs
The stone carries the same decree in hieroglyphic, Demotic and Greek, which unlocked hieroglyphs.
Going deeper
In which country did farmers digging a well in 1974 find the Terracotta Army?
AnswerChina
Farmers near Xi'an found the first figures of the Terracotta Army, buried with China's first emperor.
The Lascaux cave paintings were found by teenagers in 1940 in which country?
AnswerFrance
Lascaux, in southwestern France, holds Paleolithic paintings of horses, deer and bulls.
Where were the Dead Sea Scrolls first found in the late 1940s?
AnswerIn caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea
The first scrolls were found in 1946-47 in caves at Qumran, near the northwest shore of the Dead Sea.
Expert level
Mary Anning became famous in the 1800s for finding what along the coast at Lyme Regis?
AnswerFossils of ancient marine reptiles
Mary Anning found important ichthyosaur and plesiosaur fossils on England's Jurassic Coast.
The famous 'Lucy' skeleton, found in Ethiopia in 1974, belongs to which species?
AnswerAustralopithecus afarensis
Lucy is a roughly 3.2-million-year-old partial skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis.
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