The Lost Pyramid Movie Questions

“The Lost Pyramid Movie Questions”

Directions: Watch the movie and answer the questions on this sheet of paper. When the movie is over post the answers in your blog.

1. Name one of the pharaohs who built the pyramids in Giza?
Answer: Khuphu
2. What is the pyramid an ultimate symbol of?
Answer: A pharaoh’s power.
3. Why are the pyramids regarded as one of mans greatest achievements?
Answer: Because it was so complex for their time.
4. Why was the lost pyramid very difficult to visit?
Answer: It was a military site.
5. Why was Abu Rawash a good location even with the inhospitable conditions?
Answer: Because it’s a hill top high up.
6. How did the pharaoh who supposedly built the pyramid at Abu Rawash gain power?
Answer: By killing.

7. What have been found at Abu Rawash that gives clues to it being built by Jadhifri?
Answer: Face sculpture and statues
8. What is at Saqqara?
Answer: The site of the oldest pyramid.
9. Prior to pyramids how were pharaohs’s buried?
10. What do tunnels tell about what pyramids were meant to be?
Answer: A home for the after life for the king.
11. Were does the burial chamber lie in relation to the pyramid?
12. What does Abu Rawash have that makes it seem to be a pyramid?
Answer: The burial chamber.
13. Why did a Robbers hole give evidence that Abu Rawash had a burial chamber?
Answer: Because that’s were they make their hole.
14. What kind of blocks helped seal the burial chamber?
Answer: Granite
15. In the early 19oo’s what did the French Egyptologist find that was different from other pyramids?
Answer: Destroyed statues
16. Who does Jadhifri marry, that lends credence to a theory that he killed his brother?
Answer: His own sister.
17. What have archaeologist attempting to figure out about Abu Rawash?
Answer: What they built on a hill top.
18. What are the two functions of the causeway at Abu Rawash?
Answer: Path for beginning. Path to after life. Path for stone.
19. How did the Egyptians orient their pyramids?
Answer: West in the way of the sun.
20. Why was the Causeway not a normal east West causeway?
Answer: Because he separated from his family.
21. What does the Causeway lead to?
Answer: cowry
22. What role does the Nile River play in the building of Pyramids?
Answer: Transport system
23. What had to be built close to the pyramid for the workers?
Answer: Harbor and Canal
24. What types of people lived in the working towns?
Answer: Works man.
25. How did the Egyptians figure out to cut Granite?
Answer: Copper saw.
26. How was Granite used at Abu Rawash to show power and wealth?
Answer: It was very expensive and time consuming.
27. Why do archaeologist want to rethink Jadhifiri’s accomplishments with his
pyramid?
Answer: Because of new evidence.
28. What is the mystery of the sphinx? How have historians changed their view?
Answer: The sphinx does not look like kafray. They believe that jadahfiri built the sphinx. In order to honor his father.