Archaeology Trivia
Dig up the truth about King Tut and the Terracotta Army before your knowledge becomes as extinct as a Neanderthal.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
Dating back to 1550 BC, the collection of funerary texts commonly called the Book of the Dead was designed to guide the deceased through what realm?
The afterlife
Created by the indigenous Rapa Nui people between 1250 and 1500 CE, what are the monolithic stone statues commonly known as "Easter Island heads" called?
Moai
In 1988, radiocarbon dating by laboratories in Arizona, Oxford, and Zurich concluded that the Shroud of Turin actually originated during which broad historical period?
The Middle Ages
Most of the original Dead Sea Scrolls are housed in a specialized exhibit called the Shrine of the Book in which city?
Jerusalem
En route to the Third Crusade, Richard the Lionheart conquered which Mediterranean island to rescue his sister and his fiancée, Berengaria?
Cyprus