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Learn and Play – Ancient Egypt Play the game and Learn about the ancient Egyptians

Before you start:

• Print the board (for best result print on A3 card).

• Print and cut out the Question Cards.

• Print, cut out and fold the Answer Cards

• Find a token for each of the people playing.

• Find a dice.

• Read the rules of the game and have fun!

• Shuffle the Question Cards and place the deck of cards face down on the side of the board

Rules of the Game:

• Roll the dice: move forward on the board of as many steps as the number on the dice.

• If the box where you land has an instruction on it (move forward one box; move back one box;

etc) follow the instruction!

• If the box where you land has a picture, you will have to choose one of the Question Cards and

answer the question on it (each Question Card has a number: one of the other players will

have to check the answer on correspondent Answer Card)

• If your answer is right you can advance 1 box

• If your answer is wrong you will go back 2 boxes.

• Continue like this in turns: the person who gets to the end first wins!

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Which continent does Egypt belong to?

The Great Sphinx statue is half

human and half of what animal?

1. Lion 2. Monkey 3. Donkey

What is this?

Which river runs through Egypt and was very important

to the ancient people?

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Who was the Ancient Egyptian

God of the Underworld?

In this necklace, which colour are

the beads made of Lapis Lazuli?

1. brown 2. green 3. blue

Why did the Ancient Egyptians see dung scarab beetles as

sacred?

1. When the beetles rolled balls of dung along the ground, this reminded the Ancient Egyptians of the sun moving across the sky.

2. The Egyptians liked the way that scarabs looked.

3. They thought that scarabs had magical powers.

This is the ‘eye of…’ which god?

1. Thoth 2. Anubis 3. Horus

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Which of these is the Ancient

Egyptian symbol of life, called ankh?

The Ancient Egyptian god

Anubis was in the form of a:

1. Baboon 2. Cat 3. Jackal

What is the lady in the painting doing?

This is a model of an Egyptian ‘Shaduf’.

What do you think the real thing was

used for?

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What is the name of the plant that

the Ancient Egyptians used to

make a sort of ‘paper’?

Howard Carter was the English

Egyptologist who found which

famous Pharaoh’s tomb in 1922?

Where is Tutankhamun’s tomb located?

1. Valley of the Queens

2. Memphis

3. Valley of the Kings

Who was the Ancient Egyptian god of the Sun?

1. Ra 2. Bes 3. Bastet

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The Ancient Egyptians used

pictures and symbols to write down their

language – what were these called?

What were mummies wrapped

in?

1. Leaves 2. Linen bandages 3. Toilet paper

The lungs, intestines, stomach and liver were

placed into separate jars when a body was

mummified. What were these jars

called?

1. Jam jars 2. Underworld jars 3. Canopic jars

Statuettes like this one were placed in Ancient Egyptian tombs to serve

the dead in the afterlife.

1. Slave mummies 2. Canopic statues 3. Shabtis

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Africa Lion

Pyramid River Nile

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Osiris

Blue Lapis Lazuli is a dark blue stone rare and very expensive in those times. Egyptians considered the colour blue a favourite as it was the colour of the heavens and the life-giving waters of the Rives Nile

1. When the beetles rolled balls of dung along the ground, this reminded the Ancient Egyptians of the sun moving across the sky.

Eye of Horus

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She is playing a board game

(called ‘Senet’).

Jackal

For lifting water The ‘shaduf’ was used to lift water up from the river. The Ancient Egyptians could then use this water for their fields and crops).

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Papyrus Tutankhamun

Ra Valley of the

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Hieroglyphs Linen bandages

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