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Archaeological Sites
You Gotta Know These Archaeological Sites
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Site where a French teenager's dog found prehistoric cave paintings in 1940 | Lascaux (France) |
| French teenager who found the Lascaux cave system | Marcel Ravidat |
| Number of paintings in Lascaux cave art | 600 |
| Chamber in Lascaux where panels depict extinct bovines (aurochs) over 16 feet long | Hall of the Bulls |
| Chamber in Lascaux hosting an image of a bison next to a fallen, naked, bird-headed man | The Shaft |
| Year touring Lascaux became restricted due to mold and humidity concerns | 1963 |
| Sprawling city of the Indus Valley Civilization located in central Pakistan | Mohenjo-daro |
| Former name of the Indus Valley Civilization | Harappan Civilization |
| Possible causes of Mohenjo-daro's gradual abandonment | Regular "mud floods" and depletion of natural resources |
| Evidence of urban design in Mohenjo-daro | Built on a deliberate grid with uniform rectangular "islands" |
| Mohenjo-daro structure that looms higher than the rest of the city and contained a granary and Great Bath | Citadel |
| Four-inch bronze statuette found at Mohenjo-daro | The "Dancing Girl" |
| Soapstone sculpture of an imperious, bearded man wearing a floral print robe found at Mohenjo-daro | The "Priest-King" |
| Sumerian city-state identified by Henry Rawlinson near modern-day Tell el-Muqayya, Iraq | Ur |
| Archaeologist who led British Museum projects at Ur's Royal Cemetery | Sir Leonard Woolley |
| Ziggurat at Ur dedicated to Ur’s patron deity | Great Ziggurat of Ur (Nanna) |
| Wooden box inlaid with three tiers of mosaics showing processions of soldiers and animals found at Ur | Standard of Ur |
| Pair of harp-like instruments stylized with bulls’ heads found at Ur | Lyres of Ur |
| Lapis lazuli cylinder seal identifying the tomb of "Queen" Puabi found at Ur | Puabi's cylinder seal |
| Archaeological site on Crete containing Minoan ruins | Knossos |
| English archaeologist whose projects starting in 1900 unearthed the Palace of Minos at Knossos | Sir Arthur Evans |
| Iconic fresco at Knossos showing the Minoans' daredevil tradition | Bull-leaping fresco |
| Undeciphered writing system identified at Knossos | Linear A |
| Writing system at Knossos shown to represent an ancient form of Greek | Linear B |
| Modern-day city that sits over what was once the Egyptian capital Thebes | Luxor |
| Necropolis located across the Nile from ancient Thebes (Luxor) | Valley of the Kings |
| Temple at Luxor whose entry is flanked with twin statues of Ramses II | Luxor Temple |
| Structure linking Luxor Temple to Karnak | Avenue of the Sphinxes |
| Huge temple noted for its towering Great Hypostyle Hall, whose columns are inscribed with hieroglyphs | Karnak |
| Site designation for Howard Carter’s location of King Tutankhamun's tomb | KV62 |
| Site designation for the lavish long-ramped mortuary temple of powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut | KV20 |
| First emperor of a unified China, buried in a mausoleum near Xi’an | Qin Shi Huang |
| Century the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang was built | 3rd century BC |
| Collection of over 8,000 life-size clay statues protecting Qin Shi Huang's tomb | Terracotta Army |
| Historical account claiming Qin Shi Huang's tomb boasted artificial rivers of flowing mercury | Sima Qian’s Annals of the Grand Historian |
| Roman town buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 | Pompeii |
| House in Pompeii whose Alexander Mural features a much-reproduced depiction of Alexander the Great | House of the Faun |
| Villa in Pompeii whose red murals depict a cult initiation ceremony | Villa of the Mysteries |
| Pompeii brothel where graffiti survives intact on its walls | Lupanar |
| Site where plaster casts preserve the poses of human remains found in Pompeii | Garden of the Fugitives |
| Area near the North Sea coast in eastern England with complex burial mounds | Sutton Hoo |
| Archaeological find at Sutton Hoo that invited comparisons to passages in Beowulf | Ship burial (grave goods) |
| Possible East Anglian king honored by the Sutton Hoo ship burial | Raedwald |
| Iconic artifact from Sutton Hoo with a face mask adorned with eyebrows and a mustache | Sutton Hoo helmet |
| Mayan city established in the 6th century AD on the Yucatán Peninsula | Chichén Itzá |
| Structure at Chichén Itzá built by the original settlers (Akabtzib) | "House of Dark Writing" |
| Invaders who displaced the original settlers around the 10th century during the post-classical Mayan collapse | Toltecs (implied by context, not explicit in text) or Invaders |
| Structure built by invaders in Chichén Itzá with 91-step stairways on four sides | Temple of Kukulkan (El Castillo) |
| Purpose of the largest cenote (natural underground well) at Chichén Itzá | Sacrifice people and jade treasures to the rain god Chaac |
| Site at the northern tip of Newfoundland proving Norse seafarers reached North America first | L’Anse Aux Meadows (Canada) |
| Year L’Anse aux Meadows was established | Around AD 1000 |
| Possible town name in "Vinland" for L'Anse Aux Meadows according to the Saga of Erik the Red | Straumfjord |
| Evidence suggesting L’Anse Aux Meadows was a ship repair depot | Presence of many rivets |
| Evidence suggesting the Norse traveled south or met native traders from New Brunswick | Presence of butternut seeds |
| Material used to build the main edifices at L’Anse aux Meadows | Sod |
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