Chapter – 3
Discovering Tut: The Saga Continues
In this post, we have given the Important Questions of the chapter 3 “Discovering Tut: The Saga Continues”. It is the 3rd chapter of the prose of Class 11th English.
| Board | CBSE Board, UP Board, JAC Board, HBSE Board, UBSE Board, PSEB Board, RBSE Board |
| Textbook | NCERT |
| Class | Class 11 |
| Subject | English Hornbill |
| Chapter no. | Chapter 3 |
| Chapter Name | Discovering Tut: The Saga Continues |
| Category | Class 11 English Important Questions |
| Medium | English |
Short Answer Type
Q.1. Who was Tutankhamun?
Ans. Tutankhamun was a pharoh of ancient Egypt. He was the last heir of royal family that had ruled Egypt for centuries.
Q.2. How did Carter Separate Tut’s mummy from Coffin?
Ans. The solidified resins had comented Tut’s mummy to the bottom of his coffin. Carter tried to loosen the resins in sun’s heat, but could n’t succeed. At last, he used a chiesel to separate Tut’s mummy from coffin.
Q.3. Why was Tut’s body buried along with gilded treasures?
Ans. In Tut’s time, the royals thought that they could take their riches to the after life. So Tut’s body was also buried along with a lot of gold and things of everyday need.
Q.4. Why did the boy king change his name from Tutankhaten To Tutankamun?
Ans. Amun was a major God in ancient Egypt. But the previous king had made his people worship the sun God Aten. He smashed all images of Amun & closed his temples when young Tut took the throne, he restored the old ways He changed his own name from Tutankhaten to Tutankhamun which means living image of Amun’.
Q.5. What startling fact was revealed about Tut in 1968?
Ans. In 1968, Tut’s mummy was X-rayed. It revealed a startling fact that the breast bone and the front ribs were found missing in the chest. ?It suggested that Tut night not have died a natural death. He could have been murdered.
Q.6. What did Amenhotep IV do when he became pharaoh?
Ans. Amenhotep made his people worship the sun god Aten. He smashed all the images of Amun and closed his temples. He even changed his religious capital from the bes to New City of Akhataten.
Long Answers Type Question
Q.1. Explain the statement, “King Tut is one of the first mummies to be scanned in life as in death?
Ans. Tut became a king when he was only a boy of nine years. He ruled for eight years and died at the age of eighteen. How he became a king and how he died has been a mystery. When his mummy was found in 1922; it was scanned to known the facts related to life as well as death. It was one of first mummies that was used for such a
probe.
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