Canopic jars placed beside a burial held what?

Internal organs removed during mummification

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Ancient Egypt Easy ⚡ 10 Questions ⏱️ ~6 Mins +100 XP

Gods, Temples & the Afterlife

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Egyptian religion looks complicated from outside, mostly because it ran for three thousand years and never threw anything away. Start with the ten pieces everyone should recognise.

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Egyptian gods rarely stayed in their lane. They merged with each other, swapped animal heads, absorbed local deities and reappeared under combined names, so the same god can look like several and several can turn out to be one. What held it together was less a doctrine than a set of shared images: the sun crossing the sky, order holding back chaos, and the dead needing help to get where they were going. This quiz sticks to the parts that turn up in every museum case — the jackal, the falcon, the feather on the scales, the jars of organs. Each explanation adds the detail that usually gets left off the label.

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1Which god, shown with the head of a jackal, was associated with embalming?
- A Horus
- B Set
- C Thoth
- D Anubis Correct
Answer: D. Anubis

Why: Anubis presided over embalming and the care of the dead, and priests carrying out the work sometimes wore jackal masks. The animal is thought to have been chosen because jackals scavenged around desert cemeteries.
2In the judgement of the dead, the heart was weighed against what?
- A A scarab
- B A grain of wheat
- C A feather Correct
- D A gold ring
Answer: C. A feather

Why: The scene shows the heart balanced against the feather of Maat, the principle of truth and right order. A heart that weighed more was fed to the monster Ammit, which ended the person's existence entirely.
3Which god was killed by his brother and afterwards ruled the realm of the dead?
- A Amun
- B Osiris Correct
- C Horus
- D Ptah
Answer: B. Osiris

Why: In the myth Set murders his brother Osiris, whose body is recovered and revived by Isis. Their son Horus then spends years contesting the throne with Set.
4Which goddess was the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus?
- A Isis Correct
- B Hathor
- C Bastet
- D Nephthys
Answer: A. Isis

Why: Isis gathered up her husband's body and restored him, and was worshipped above all as a protector and healer. Her cult spread far beyond Egypt, with temples as far away as Rome and the Roman frontier in Britain.
5Which god was usually depicted with the head of a falcon?
- A Sobek
- B Khnum
- C Anubis
- D Horus Correct
Answer: D. Horus

Why: Horus was a sky god, and the living pharaoh was regarded as Horus on earth. The wedjat, or Eye of Horus, was among the most common protective amulets in Egypt.
6Which god had the head of an ibis and was linked with writing and knowledge?
- A Khonsu
- B Bes
- C Thoth Correct
- D Ptah
Answer: C. Thoth

Why: Thoth was credited with inventing writing and recorded the verdict at the weighing of the heart. He could also appear as a baboon, and both animals were mummified in his honour.
7Which vast temple complex on the east bank at Thebes was added to for roughly two thousand years?
- A Dendera
- B Karnak Correct
- C Abu Simbel
- D Philae
Answer: B. Karnak

Why: Successive kings extended Karnak, dedicated mainly to Amun-Ra, from the Middle Kingdom into the Roman period. Its great hypostyle hall holds 134 columns, the tallest around 21 metres.
8Which animal was mummified in huge numbers and linked to the goddess Bastet?
- A Cats Correct
- B Dogs
- C Horses
- D Sheep
Answer: A. Cats

Why: Bastet was shown as a cat or as a woman with a cat's head, and hundreds of thousands of cat mummies were buried at her cult centre of Bubastis. Ibises, falcons and crocodiles were also mummified and sold to pilgrims as offerings.
9Canopic jars placed beside a burial held what?
- A Grain for the journey
- B Sacred oils
- C The dead person's jewellery
- D Internal organs removed during mummification Correct
Answer: D. Internal organs removed during mummification

Why: The four jars held the liver, lungs, stomach and intestines, each under the protection of one of the four sons of Horus. The heart was usually left inside the body and the brain was thrown away.
10Amun merged with which other god to become the dominant deity of the New Kingdom?
- A Set
- B Aten
- C Ra Correct
- D Ptah
Answer: C. Ra

Why: Amun-Ra combined the hidden creator worshipped at Thebes with the sun god of Heliopolis. Egyptian gods fused and separated like this fairly often, which is why so many have double-barrelled names.

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