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scovAingJul. The Saqa lontnuts SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS The bad condition in its tomb. mummy back resented Give reasons for the following: found later was by Q.1. in which it was Tut's has been subjected () King body archaeologists. to repeated scrutiny. (TBQ) to chisel away the (11) Carter had Tut was subjected to raise the Ans. The tomb of king solidified resins to king's Howard Carter, a British repeated scrutiny. remains. tomb in discovered Tut's ritual archaeologist, Carter found that the resins had the contents of Ans. 1922. In order to investigate to the bottom of his hardened, cementing Tut had to cut the body to remove the tomb, he coffin. So he had to chisel away the was solid gold from its coffin. In 1968, the mummy it solidified resins to remove the mummy out.| to that Tut's breastbone X-rayed. It came light done thieves would have| the If he had not so, were In 2005, and front ribs missing. come and torn the mummy apart to remove| scan. was taken out for a CT mummy the gold. to so much The mummy was subjected (iv) Tut's body was buried along with| because King Tut was a teenager scrutiny gilded treasures. died. He was the last heir when he suddenly Ans. Tut's body was buried along with large He was laid to of a powerful ruling family. quantities of pure gold. It was believed by the| rest with large quantities of pure gold. People such royal people, then that they could take their wanted to know why he had died at he could have riches with them after death. an They suspected early age. (o) The boy king changed his name murdered for some unknown reason. been from Tutankhaten to Tutankhamun. Howard Carter's investigation was (1) Ans. The boy king changed his name from resented. Tutankhaten to Tutankhamun which meant Ans. Howard Carter's investigation badly damaged the living image of Amun', a major god. His from the mummy. To separate Tut's body predecessor, Amenhotep IV, had smashed adornments, Howard Carter and his men the images of the god Amun and closed his head and as he wanted to had to remove the mummy's temples promote the worship of the another He to cut joints. After investigations, they put the Aten, god. wanted end this of hatred chapter towards Amun. So he Q.7. What caused so much interest about changed his name to reassure people that he Tut's mummy ? wanted to restore the old of ways worship. Ans. it was was the last heir of Q.2. List the deeds that led Ray Johnson to King Tut, found, a powerful dynasty of rulers in ancient Egypt.| describe Akhenaten as "Wacky".(TBQ) He died young in mysterious circumstances. Ans. Ray Johnson rightly described Akhenaten, The discovery of his mummy arose the King Tut's predecessor, as crazy. His new interest among people as to how he died. name Akhenaten meant the 'servant of the Q.8. on 5th Aten', the sun disk. He wanted to What happened January 2005? promote Ans. On 5th Tut's the worship of the Aten. He shocked the January 2005, mummy was subjected to a CT scan to probe the so-far people by smashing the images of Amun, a unsolved related to the major god, and dosed his temples. In another mysteries young ruler's life and who died more crazy move, he shifted his religious capital death, than from the old city of Thebes to the new city of 3300 years ago. Akhetaten known now as Amarna. Q.9. What did the tourists do ? Q.3. What were the results of the CT scan? Ans. The tourists from far and near had come to pay their respects. They gazed at the murals (TBQ) on the walls of the burial chamber and peered Ans. The mummy was scanned from head to toe. at the gilded face of Tut. Some visitors read 1700 digital X-ray images were taken. The from guidebooks while others stood silently. head was scanned in 0.62 millimetre slices to Q.10. What were the contents of Tut's probe the secrets of his death. These imagees tomb ? finally established that nothing had seriously gone wrong. Tut's death was natural. Ans. The contents of Tut's tomb included the| Q.4. List the advances in technology that richest royal collection in gold, in addition to have improved forensic analysis. (TBQ) everyday things of use like board games, a Ans. Technology has now advanced consider- ably. bronze razor, linen undergarments, cases of| With CT scan, hundreds of X-rays are put food and wine etc. together like slices of bread to create a three- Q.11. Why did Ray Johnson describe Akhen- dimensional view. It has improved forensic aten as "Wacky"? analysis greatly. Ans. Amenhotep IV changed his name to| Akhenaten and moved the Q.5. Explain the statement, "King Tut is one religious capital of the first mummies to be scanned-in from the old city of Thebes to the new city death, as in life..." (TBQ) of Akhenaten. He attacked Amun, a major Ans. King Tut was one of the first mummies to be god, smashed his images and closed his| scanned. The scanning quality was so good temples. These deeds led Ray Johnson to call as if the person scanned were alive, not dead. Akhenaten as "Wacky". It is in this context that the remark has been Q.12. Why did a guard joke nervously and made. said, "Curse of the pharaohs"? Ans. Tut's mummy was to be CT scanned but the Q.6. Who was Howard Carter? What was his cóntribution? million-dollar scanner could not work because Ans. Howard Carter was a British archaeologist. ofsand ina cooler fan. The guard thought| It was he who discovered Tut's tomb and that it was the curse of the pharaoh. was Zahi Hawass relieved? removed Tut's mummy to investigate it. His Q.13. Why efforts saved Tue's mummy from robbers and Ans. Zahi Hawass, who was the Secretary General thieves who might have destroyed it to extract of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities its golden adornments. was relieved because he was under great| handle Tut's mummy? pressure that something might go wrong. Q.17. How did Carter After the successful operation, he was relieved Ans. Carter exposed Tut's mummy to the blazing of tension. heat of desert sun for hours in an attempt to cut it off naturally from the coffin. He used a was the curse ? Q.14. What pharaoh's Did it chisel to separate it from the coffin finally. In prove to be ominous ? so doing, he cut off all the joints of the body, Ans. It was believed that the pharaoh's curse was including its head. that misfortune would befall upon all those Q.18. What startling discovery was made who would disturb his eternal sleep. The dark about Tut's mummy 40 years after its sky and the stormy wind were thought to be discovery? ominous on January 5, 2005 when Tut's Ans. When an anatomy professor K-rayed Tut's body was being taken out for CT scan. mummy some 40 years after its discovery, he revealed that beneath the resin over the What do the funerary treasures tell Q.15. his breast-bone and front us about the beliefs of ancient mummy's chest, ribs were missing. Egyptians? Q.19. "King Tut's demise was a big event,| Ans. Funerary treasures in Tut's tomb included even by royal standards". What does numerous artefacts in gold, things of daily the author want to suggest by this use like oils, food, wine, clothes, board comment ? games, etc. They tell us that people in ancient Ans. King Tut's death must have been a great Egypt believed in life after death. That was shock, an event that would have ushered in| why, they buried these things with the dead drastic political changes. That was why, Tut| received a grand burial. His mummified body persons so that they might not have to face any problem in absence of the things they was buried with costly gold treasures and all the he have loved loved, when they come to life again. things might during his| lifetime. What was the main problem faced by Q.16. Q.20. Tut took a drastic step during his reign. Carter when he tried to study Tut's What was that ? mummy ? Ans. On becoming the king, Tut restored the Ans. Carter wanted to separate the mummified ancient religion in Egypt. He changed his body of Tut from the gold coffin. When he name from Tutankhaten to Tutankhamun in tried to do so, he found that the body had reverence to the old god 'Amun'. He started cemented to the coffin due to the hardening the worship of Amun' in place of the worship of the sun disk. of ritual resins applied to the body. LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS Q.1. Explain the statement, "King Tut is one life, ahead of his countrymen. The modern of the first mummies to be scanned in world is curious to know about his life and death as in life .... mysterious death in the prime of his life. Ans. The Egyptian Mummy Project has so far Since the discovery of his tomb in 1922, the modern recorded almost 600 mummies. The next world has shown a keen interest in phase of this project is to scan the mummies his life and mysterious death.

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