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 what year was the Rosetta Stone found?
Answer1799
French soldiers found the stone near Rosetta, Egypt, in 1799; Champollion's decipherment came in 1822.
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.
The wreck of which famous ship was found in the North Atlantic in 1985?
AnswerRMS Titanic
Titanic's wreck was located in 1985 about 3,800 meters down, 73 years after it sank in 1912.
Expert level
The Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo was excavated in 1939 in which country?
AnswerEngland
Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk, England, held a buried ship and treasures including a famous iron helmet.
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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