Tutankhamun Burial Chamber Quiz: Shrines, Coffins and Seals

This tutankhamun burial chamber quiz passes two guardian statues into a golden room. Play 10 interactive questions on Howard Carter's 1922 discovery, Lord Carnarvon, the sealed doorway opened in 1923, four gilded wooden shrines, a quartzite sarcophagus, three nested coffins with the innermost of solid gold, the famous mask and painted walls.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Find
Who discovered Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922?
Patron
Who funded the excavation?
Open
When was the burial chamber officially opened?
Guards
What stood guarding the sealed doorway?
Shrines
How many gilded shrines surrounded the sarcophagus?
Sarc
What was the sarcophagus made of?
Coffins
How many coffins nested inside?
Gold
What was the innermost coffin made of?
Mask
What covered the king's head and shoulders?
Code
What is the tomb's designation in the Valley of the Kings?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Who discovered Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922?
Answer: Howard Carter
In the Valley of the Kings.
Q2: Who funded the excavation?
Answer: Lord Carnarvon
A British aristocrat.
Q3: When was the burial chamber officially opened?
Answer: 1923
Months after discovery.
Q4: What stood guarding the sealed doorway?
Answer: Two life-size statues of the king
Painted black and gold.
Q5: How many gilded shrines surrounded the sarcophagus?
Answer: Four
Nested like boxes.
Q6: What was the sarcophagus made of?
Answer: Quartzite stone
A heavy stone box.
Q7: How many coffins nested inside?
Answer: Three
Each fitting inside the next.
Q8: What was the innermost coffin made of?
Answer: Solid gold
Over 100 kg.
Q9: What covered the king's head and shoulders?
Answer: A gold funerary mask
Inlaid with stones.
Q10: What is the tomb's designation in the Valley of the Kings?
Answer: KV62
The 62nd tomb found.

Shrines Within Shrines

In November 1922 Howard Carter, funded by Lord Carnarvon, discovered Tutankhamun's tomb, KV62, in the Valley of the Kings. The sealed doorway to the burial chamber was guarded by two life-size statues of the king, and the chamber was officially opened in 1923.

Inside, four gilded wooden shrines nested like boxes surrounded a quartzite sarcophagus. Within it lay three coffins, each fitting inside the next; the innermost was made of solid gold, weighing over 100 kilograms.

The king's head and shoulders were covered by the famous gold funerary mask, inlaid with colored stones and glass. The chamber walls were painted with scenes of the afterlife, and the treasures took Carter about ten years to record and remove.

What This Quiz Teaches

History fans will enjoy these questions.

Who found the tomb
How the chamber was guarded
What layers protected the king
What the coffins were made of
What the mask shows

Did You Know?

The mask is in Cairo's museums.
Tutankhamun's mummy remains in the tomb.
He died at about 19.
His tomb is small for a pharaoh.
A curse legend followed the discovery.