JigsawAncient Egypt Quiz: Questions and Answers
A free Ancient Egypt quiz with answers for kids (KS2, grades 4 to 6) and adults: trivia questions on pharaohs like Tutankhamun and Ramesses II, Egyptian gods, mummies, hieroglyphs and the pyramids, with photos of the temples and the Nile on the map.
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About this quiz
Each round of this Ancient Egypt quiz has ten questions. In some, a temple, tomb or pyramid appears in a photo or is marked on the map of the Nile, and you pick its name from four; the others are trivia questions about the pharaohs, the gods, mummies, hieroglyphs and everyday life on the Nile, and about the myths, like who really built the pyramids.
After every answer you see a short fact and a photo from our Egypt puzzles, from the Pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx to Abu Simbel, Karnak and the painted tombs of the Valley of the Kings: tap it to play the same place as a jigsaw puzzle.
It is a free history quiz for anyone: the Easy level suits kids and students learning about ancient Egypt at school (KS2 in the UK, grades 4 to 6 in the US), while All is a real test for adults, with the questions and answers to read through after each round. Play on your own, against a friend with the challenge link, or in class on a big screen.
Maps: Natural Earth (public domain). The photos are credited under each picture and on their puzzle pages.
Egyptian Gods and Famous Pharaohs: List with Their Powers
The gods you meet most often in the temples and tombs, and the best-known rulers of ancient Egypt. Tap a name to play the puzzle of a place linked with it.
Egyptian gods and goddesses
- Ra · god of the sun, with a falcon’s head crowned by the sun disc
- Osiris · god of the dead and the afterlife, a green-skinned king wrapped like a mummy
- Isis · goddess of magic and motherhood, wife of Osiris and mother of Horus
- Horus · falcon-headed god of the sky and of kings
- Anubis · jackal-headed god of embalming and tombs
- Seth · god of storms, the desert and chaos, who killed his brother Osiris
- Thoth · ibis-headed god of writing, wisdom and the moon
- Hathor · goddess of love, music and joy, with the ears of a cow
- Bastet · cat goddess who protected homes and families
- Sobek · crocodile god of the Nile and its waters
Famous pharaohs
- Khufu · built the Great Pyramid of Giza, around 2560 BC
- Hatshepsut · a woman who ruled as pharaoh in the 1400s BC
- Akhenaten · tried to make Egypt worship one god, the sun disc Aten; husband of Nefertiti
- Tutankhamun · the boy king whose tomb was found almost untouched in 1922
- Ramesses II · ruled for 66 years and built the temples of Abu Simbel
- Cleopatra VII · the last queen of ancient Egypt, who ruled from Alexandria and died in 30 BC
Ancient Egypt Quiz Questions and Answers
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Which young pharaoh’s tomb did Howard Carter find almost untouched in 1922?
Answer: Tutankhamun. The tomb in the Valley of the Kings held more than 5,000 objects, among them the famous gold mask, made of about 10 kg of gold.
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What did the ancient Egyptians write with?
Answer: Hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphs were little pictures that stood for sounds and ideas; scribes used hundreds of them, and for everyday writing a quicker joined-up script.
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Which stone helped scholars learn to read hieroglyphs?
Answer: The Rosetta Stone. French soldiers found the Rosetta Stone near this Nile Delta town in 1799; the same decree written in hieroglyphs, demotic and Greek became the key to reading hieroglyphs.
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Which river was the lifeline of ancient Egypt?
Answer: The Nile. Every summer the Nile flooded and left rich black mud on the fields; the Egyptians called their land Kemet, “the black land”, and the Greek writer Herodotus called Egypt “the gift of the Nile”.
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Why did the ancient Egyptians mummify the dead?
Answer: So the soul could use the body in the afterlife. They believed the soul needed its body to live on, so the body was dried with natron salt for about 40 days and then wrapped in linen.
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How did embalmers usually take out the brain of a mummy?
Answer: Through the nose, with a hook. The brain was thought to be useless and was thrown away; the heart, which they believed did the thinking, was left in the body.
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Which god had the head of a jackal and watched over mummies?
Answer: Anubis. Jackals were often seen near desert graves, so the god of embalming and cemeteries was given a jackal’s head; priests may have worn Anubis masks while making mummies.
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Who was the Egyptian sun god?
Answer: Ra. Ra was said to sail across the sky in a boat by day and through the underworld by night, to be born again each morning.
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Which animal was sacred to the goddess Bastet, and much loved in Egypt?
Answer: The cat. Cats kept mice and snakes away from homes and grain; when a family cat died, people shaved their eyebrows in mourning, and millions of cats were mummified as offerings.
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What does the Great Sphinx of Giza look like?
Answer: A lion with a human head. Carved from the bedrock about 4,500 years ago, the Sphinx is about 73 m long and 20 m high; its face is thought to be the pharaoh Khafre’s.