Quiz 51
This quiz complements DIG's March 2006 issue on "Meet the Mummies."
Pick one answer from the menu under each question about archaeology.
1. Painted funeral masks representing the features of the dead were placed on mummies from this Siberian culture:
a. Tashtyk
b. Tagar
c. Parthian
d. Afghan
2. What is natron?
a. The hook to remove the mummy’s brain
b. A salt that dries out the mummy to preserve it
c. A mummified animal
d. A term for mummified organs
3. Anthropologist Richard Lobban recreated an Egyptian mummification of what animal?
a. Dog
b. Ibis
c. Bull
d. Cat
4. The red haired, tattooed mummies of the Tarim Basin come from this country:
a. China
b. India
c. Germany
d. Ireland
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