Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt

What this quiz asks

• Which king is traditionally credited with first uniting Upper and Lower Egypt?
• The word 'pharaoh' originally meant 'great house' and referred to the royal palace.
• Select ALL of these women who ruled Egypt as pharaoh in their own right.
• For roughly how many years did Ramses II reign?
• Order these rulers of Egypt from earliest to latest reign.
• Pharaohs wore a rearing cobra like this on the brow of their crown. What is it called?
• Was Hatshepsut often portrayed wearing the pharaoh's ceremonial false beard?
• Hatshepsut's temple reliefs celebrate a famous trading expedition to which land?
• What was the main purpose of the pyramids built for the pharaohs?
• Cleopatra VII lived closer in time to the building of the Great Pyramid than to us today.
• Select ALL of these that were found in Tutankhamun's tomb.
• Which pharaoh fought the Hittites at the Battle of Kadesh?
• The priest Manetho divided Egypt's kings into how many dynasties?
• Order these monuments from oldest to newest.
• Was the living pharaoh identified with the falcon god Horus?
• Which pharaoh made the sun disc Aten the centre of Egypt's state religion?
• In which royal burial ground was Tutankhamun's tomb found in 1922?
• The temples of Abu Simbel were cut apart and moved to higher ground in the 1960s.
• Select ALL of these pyramids that stand on the Giza plateau.
• The Amarna Letters, clay tablets of royal diplomacy, were mostly written in which language?