ISS 315 Tomb Raiders
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- Who was Howard Vyse?
- An amateur archaeologist that used dynamite to open tombs
- Who was a circus strongman that used hydraulics to move statues in Egypt?
- Giovanni Belzoni
- Who was the first real archeologist to visit Egypt?
- Howard Carter
- What was Carter's first job in Egypt?
- to sketch hieroglyphics in the pyramids
- What did he become obsessed with finding?
- The lost tomb of King Tut
- Where, when and what was in the tomb when he finally found it?
- He found it November 4th in the valley of the kings and it had a solid gold coffin and numerous treasures inside it
- Who invested time and money into Carter's expeditions?
- Earle of Carnarvon (George Herbert)
- What happened after the tomb was opened?
- George Herbert and many others died leading to the idea that all tombs are cursed
- Who is Zahi Hawas?
- A modern archaeologist that studies the egyptian pyramids who doesn't believe in curses yet there was one site that he visited twice and almost died both times and never visited it again
- Who is Lisa Lucero?
- A modern archeologist that studies civilizations in the rainforest and talks about the real dangers of being an archeologists
- who is Pete Matthews?
- A modern archaeologist that found a monument and was going to take it back with him. This angered the locals and he was held hostage and beaten to the point of almost death
- Who is Arthur Demarest?
- A modern archeologist that studies the Mayan cultures he talks about the dangers of snakes in the jungle
- Who was Roy Chapman Andrews?
- Not a professional archeologist who became a hunter for the Natural history museum, he was afraid of snakes, but states you must be bite by a snake to be a true adventurer
- What is the significance of the year 1922?
- Its the year both King Tut's tomb was found and when Andrew's was looking for the missing link
- What happened in 1925 to Andrew's and his crew?
- They were attacked by a lot of brown pit vipers at night where some 47 of the snakes were killed
- Andrew's lead the first Asiatic expedition what did it contain and what was its goal?
- To find the missing link and it had over 100 camels in it
- What did Andrew's discover in 1923?
- The Flaming Cliffs
- What about the Flaming Cliffs make them special?
- They contain fossilized dinosaur eggs, the first ever discovered, that were estimated to be over 80 million years old
- When was Andrew's last trip to the Gobi desert and why was it his last and what year did he die?
- In 1926 because soldiers opened fired on his team, 1960
- What are the two kinds of looters?
- organized and opportunists
- What does Interpol rank as the 3rd largest illegal trade operation?
- Artifacts
- What are opportunist looters?
- Someone who finds an artifact and just sells it as soon as they can
- What are organized looters?
- Gangs of people that just go from site to site destroying and taking everything
- Who was the person the locals nicknamed "hummingbird"?
- Sylvanus Griswold Morley
- What did Morley always do whenever he was praticeing archeology?
- Befriended all the natives
- What did Morley eventually become?
- An american spy (#53) because no other archeologist had their name tied to more sites than him and he hated the Germans
- Who was the one eyed archeologist?
- John Stringfellow Pendlebury
- What was Pendlebury famous for?
- Rounding up the Capitans of the island Crete to fight back against the Germans as they invaded
- Who were the Capitans?
- Native people to the island Crete that were ruthless fighters and loved their country very much
- Where was King Tut's tomb found?
- In the valley of the Kings in Egypt
- Where were more than 240 mummies found encased in gold?
- The valley of the golden Mummies
- What was the name of the toxic powder that was sometimes found around mummies?
- Hematite
- What was the site that contained 8000 solider statues?
- The Tomb of Qin Shi Huang
- What does Cancuen mean?
- pit of snakes
- In what city was an artifact found that was stolen and the looters were brought to justice?
- Cancuen
- What is significant about Naachtun, Guatemala?
- Half of the structure is destroyed making it hard to examine it
- What is the name of the yellow jawed snake that produces a powerful hemotoxin?
- Fer-de-lance snake