AQT ART EXAM QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS 2024/2025 | VERIFIED
Venus Of Willendorf - ✔️✔️Earliest known sculpture, found in modern Austria
Venus of Willendorf - ✔️✔️This piece of art, now known in academia as the Woman of Willendorf, is a
4.25-inch (10.8 cm) high statuette of a female figure estimated to have been made between about
28,000 and 25,000 BCE. It was found in 1908 by a workman named Johann Veran or Josef Veram during
excavations conducted by archaeologists Josef Szombathy, Hugo Obermaier and Josef Bayer at a
paleolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria near the city of Krems. It is carved from an
oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre. The figurine is now in the
Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.
Cave Paintings at Lascaux - ✔️✔️This is the setting of a complex of caves in southwestern France
famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings. The original caves are located near the village of Montignac, in
the department of Dordogne. They contain some of the best-known Upper Paleolithic art. These
paintings are estimated to be 17,300 years old. They primarily consist of images of large animals, most of
which are known from fossil evidence to have lived in the area at the time. In 1979, it was added to the
UNESCO World Heritage Sites list along with other prehistoric sites in the Vézère valley.
Cave Paintings at Lascaux - ✔️✔️In the late summer of 1940, the entrance to this was discovered by 18-
year-old Marcel Ravidat. Ravidat returned to the scene with three friends, Jacques Marsal, Georges
Agnel, and Simon Coencas, and entered the cave via a long shaft. The four teenagers discovered that the
cave walls were covered with depictions of animals. The cave complex was opened to the public in 1948.
By 1955, the carbon dioxide produced by 1,200 visitors per day had visibly damaged the paintings. The
cave was closed to the public in 1963 in order to preserve the art. After the cave was closed, the
paintings were restored to their original state, and were monitored on a daily basis. Rooms in the cave
include The Hall of the Bulls, the Passageway, the Shaft, the Nave, the Apse, and the Chamber of Felines.
Stonehenge - ✔️✔️This is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of
Amesbury and 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, this is the
remains of a ring of standing stones set within earthworks. It is in the middle of the most dense complex
of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.
Ziggurat - ✔️✔️These were built by the Sumerians, Babylonians, Elamites, Akkadians, and Assyrians for
local religions. Each one was part of a temple complex which included other buildings. The precursors of
this were raised platforms that date from the Ubaid period during the fourth millennium BC. The earliest
ones began near the end of the Early Dynastic Period. The latest Mesopotamian versions date from the
6th century BC. Built in receding tiers upon a rectangular, oval, or square platform, this was a pyramidal
structure with a flat top. Sun-baked bricks made up the core of the this with facings of fired bricks on the
,outside. The facings were often glazed in different colors and may have had astrological significance.
Kings sometimes had their names engraved on these glazed bricks. The number of tiers ranged from two
to seven. It is assumed that they had shrines at the top, but there is no archaeological evidence for this
and the only textual evidence is from Herodotus. Access to the shrine would have been by a series of
ramps on one side of the it or by a spiral ramp from base to summit. The Mesopotamian version were
not places for public worship or ceremonies. They were believed to be dwelling places for the gods and
each city had its own patron god. Only priests were permitted on them or in the rooms at its base, and it
was their responsibility to care for the gods and attend to their needs. The priests were very powerful
members of Sumerian society.
Ziggurat - ✔️✔️This means "to build on a raised area". These were massive structures built in the
ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of
successively receding stories or levels.
Notable ones include the Great ______ of Ur near Nasiriyah, Iraq; the _______ of Aqar Quf near
Baghdad, Iraq; Chogha Zanbil in Khūzestān, Iran; and Sialk near Kashan, Iran.
Easter Island - ✔️✔️This is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the
southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle. It is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues,
called moai, created by the early Rapa Nui people. In 1995, UNESCO named this place a World Heritage
Site, with much of the island protected within Rapa Nui National Park.
Valley of The Kings - ✔️✔️This is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th
to 11th century BC, tombs were constructed for the Pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom
(the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Dynasties of Ancient Egypt). The valley stands on the west bank of the
Nile, opposite Thebes (modern Luxor), within the heart of the Theban Necropolis. The wadi consists of
two valleys, East Valley (where the majority of the royal tombs are situated) and West Valley.
Valley of the Queens - ✔️✔️The valley is located near the better known Valley of the Kings, on the west
bank of the Nile across from Thebes (modern Luxor). This barren area in the western hills was chosen
due to its relative isolation and proximity to the capital. The kings of the 18th dynasty, instead of building
pyramids as traditional burial chambers (perhaps because of their vulnerability to tomb robbers), now
chose to be interred in rock-cut tombs.
This necropolis is said to hold more than seventy tombs, many of which are stylish and lavishly
decorated. An example of this is the resting place carved out of the rock for Queen Nefertari (1290-1224
BCE) of the 19th Dynasty. The polychrome reliefs in her tomb are still intact.
Valley of the Queens - ✔️✔️The valley was begun in the time of Ramesses I. Prior to that time wives
were generally buried with their husbands, and some continued to be so.
,Valley of the Queens - ✔️✔️This is a place in Egypt where wives of Pharaohs were buried in ancient
times. In ancient times, it was known as Ta-Set-Neferu, meaning -"the place of the Children of the
Pharaoh", because along with the Queens of the 18th, 19th and 20th dynasties (1550-1070 BCE) many
princes and princesses were also buried with various members of the nobility. The tombs of these
individuals were maintained by mortuary priests who performed daily rituals and provided offerings and
prayers for the deceased nobility.
Tutankhamun - ✔️✔️He was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled ca. 1332 BC - 1323 BC in
the conventional chronology), during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom. His
original name means "Living Image of Aten", while his changed name means "Living Image of Amun". In
hieroglyphs, the his name was typically written Amen-tut-ankh, because of a scribal custom that placed a
divine name at the beginning of a phrase to show appropriate reverence. He is possibly also the
Nibhurrereya of the Amarna letters, and likely the 18th dynasty king Rathotis who, according to
Manetho, an ancient historian, had reigned for nine years—a figure that conforms with Flavius
Josephus's version of Manetho's Epitome.
Tutankhamun - ✔️✔️The 1922 discovery by Howard Carter and George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
of his nearly intact tomb received worldwide press coverage. It sparked a renewed public interest in
ancient Egypt, for which his burial mask, now in Cairo Museum, remains the popular symbol. Exhibits of
artifacts from his tomb have toured the world. In February 2010, the results of DNA tests confirmed that
he was the son of Akhenaten (mummy KV55) and Akhenaten's sister and wife (mummy KV35YL), whose
name is unknown but whose remains are positively identified as "The Younger Lady" mummy found in
KV35.
Tutankhamun - ✔️✔️He was the son of Akhenaten (formerly Amenhotep IV) and one of Akhenaten's
sisters, or perhaps one of his cousins. As a prince he was known as Tutankhaten. He ascended to the
throne in 1333 BC, at the age of nine or ten, taking the throne name Nebkheperure. His wet-nurse was a
woman called Maia, known from her tomb at Saqqara.
When he became king, he married his half-sister, Ankhesenpaaten, who later changed her name to
Ankhesenamun. They had two daughters, both stillborn. Computed tomography studies released in 2011
revealed that one daughter died at 5-6 months of pregnancy and the other at 9 months of pregnancy. No
evidence was found in either mummy of congenital anomalies or an apparent cause of death.
Tutankhamun - ✔️✔️KV62
, Howard Carter - ✔️✔️This man, (9 May 1874 - 2 March 1939) was an English archaeologist and
Egyptologist who became world famous after discovering the intact tomb of 14th-century BC pharaoh
Tutankhamun (colloquially known as "King Tut" and "the boy king").
Howard Carter - ✔️✔️This man was born in London, the son of Samuel, an artist, and of Martha Joyce.
His father trained and developed His artistic talents.
He spent much of his childhood with relatives in the Norfolk market town of Swaffham, the birthplace of
both his parents. In 1891 the Egypt Exploration Fund (EEF) sent him to assist Percy Newberry in the
excavation and recording of Middle Kingdom tombs at Beni Hasan.
Although only 17, he was innovative in improving the methods of copying tomb decoration. In 1892 he
worked under the tutelage of Flinders Petrie for one season at Amarna, the capital founded by the
pharaoh Akhenaten. From 1894 to 1899 he worked with Édouard Naville at Deir el-Bahari, where he
recorded the wall reliefs in the temple of Hatshepsut.
Howard Carter - ✔️✔️In 1899, He was appointed as the first chief inspector of the Egyptian Antiquities
Service (EAS). He supervised a number of excavations at Thebes (now known as Luxor). In 1904 he was
transferred to the Inspectorate of Lower Egypt. He was praised for his improvements in the protection
of, and accessibility to, existing excavation sites, and his development of a grid-block system for
searching for tombs. The Antiquities Service also provided funding for him to head up his own excavation
projects, and during this time period he discovered the Tombs of Thutmose I and Thutmose III, although
both tombs had been robbed of treasures long before.
He resigned from the Antiquities Service in 1905 after formal inquiry into what became known as the
Saqqara Affair, a noisy confrontation between Egyptian site guards and a group of French tourists. He
sided with the Egyptian personnel.
Howard Carter - ✔️✔️After three hard years for this man, in 1907 Lord Carnarvon employed him to
supervise Carnarvon's Egyptian excavations in the Valley of the Kings. The intention of Gaston Maspero,
who introduced the two, was to ensure that he imposed modern archaeological methods and systems of
recording.
Carnarvon financed this man's work in the Valley of the Kings to 1914, but until 1917 excavations and
study were interrupted by World War I. Following the end of World War I, he aggressively resumed his
work.
After several years of finding little, Lord Carnarvon (this man's benefactor) became dissatisfied with the
lack of results. In 1922, Carnarvon informed him he had one more season of funding to search the Valley
of the Kings and find the tomb.
On November 4, 1922, his's excavation group found steps he hoped led to Tutankhamun's tomb
(subsequently designated KV62) (the tomb that would be considered the best preserved and most intact
pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings).
Venus Of Willendorf - ✔️✔️Earliest known sculpture, found in modern Austria
Venus of Willendorf - ✔️✔️This piece of art, now known in academia as the Woman of Willendorf, is a
4.25-inch (10.8 cm) high statuette of a female figure estimated to have been made between about
28,000 and 25,000 BCE. It was found in 1908 by a workman named Johann Veran or Josef Veram during
excavations conducted by archaeologists Josef Szombathy, Hugo Obermaier and Josef Bayer at a
paleolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria near the city of Krems. It is carved from an
oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre. The figurine is now in the
Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.
Cave Paintings at Lascaux - ✔️✔️This is the setting of a complex of caves in southwestern France
famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings. The original caves are located near the village of Montignac, in
the department of Dordogne. They contain some of the best-known Upper Paleolithic art. These
paintings are estimated to be 17,300 years old. They primarily consist of images of large animals, most of
which are known from fossil evidence to have lived in the area at the time. In 1979, it was added to the
UNESCO World Heritage Sites list along with other prehistoric sites in the Vézère valley.
Cave Paintings at Lascaux - ✔️✔️In the late summer of 1940, the entrance to this was discovered by 18-
year-old Marcel Ravidat. Ravidat returned to the scene with three friends, Jacques Marsal, Georges
Agnel, and Simon Coencas, and entered the cave via a long shaft. The four teenagers discovered that the
cave walls were covered with depictions of animals. The cave complex was opened to the public in 1948.
By 1955, the carbon dioxide produced by 1,200 visitors per day had visibly damaged the paintings. The
cave was closed to the public in 1963 in order to preserve the art. After the cave was closed, the
paintings were restored to their original state, and were monitored on a daily basis. Rooms in the cave
include The Hall of the Bulls, the Passageway, the Shaft, the Nave, the Apse, and the Chamber of Felines.
Stonehenge - ✔️✔️This is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of
Amesbury and 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, this is the
remains of a ring of standing stones set within earthworks. It is in the middle of the most dense complex
of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.
Ziggurat - ✔️✔️These were built by the Sumerians, Babylonians, Elamites, Akkadians, and Assyrians for
local religions. Each one was part of a temple complex which included other buildings. The precursors of
this were raised platforms that date from the Ubaid period during the fourth millennium BC. The earliest
ones began near the end of the Early Dynastic Period. The latest Mesopotamian versions date from the
6th century BC. Built in receding tiers upon a rectangular, oval, or square platform, this was a pyramidal
structure with a flat top. Sun-baked bricks made up the core of the this with facings of fired bricks on the
,outside. The facings were often glazed in different colors and may have had astrological significance.
Kings sometimes had their names engraved on these glazed bricks. The number of tiers ranged from two
to seven. It is assumed that they had shrines at the top, but there is no archaeological evidence for this
and the only textual evidence is from Herodotus. Access to the shrine would have been by a series of
ramps on one side of the it or by a spiral ramp from base to summit. The Mesopotamian version were
not places for public worship or ceremonies. They were believed to be dwelling places for the gods and
each city had its own patron god. Only priests were permitted on them or in the rooms at its base, and it
was their responsibility to care for the gods and attend to their needs. The priests were very powerful
members of Sumerian society.
Ziggurat - ✔️✔️This means "to build on a raised area". These were massive structures built in the
ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of
successively receding stories or levels.
Notable ones include the Great ______ of Ur near Nasiriyah, Iraq; the _______ of Aqar Quf near
Baghdad, Iraq; Chogha Zanbil in Khūzestān, Iran; and Sialk near Kashan, Iran.
Easter Island - ✔️✔️This is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the
southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle. It is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues,
called moai, created by the early Rapa Nui people. In 1995, UNESCO named this place a World Heritage
Site, with much of the island protected within Rapa Nui National Park.
Valley of The Kings - ✔️✔️This is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th
to 11th century BC, tombs were constructed for the Pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom
(the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Dynasties of Ancient Egypt). The valley stands on the west bank of the
Nile, opposite Thebes (modern Luxor), within the heart of the Theban Necropolis. The wadi consists of
two valleys, East Valley (where the majority of the royal tombs are situated) and West Valley.
Valley of the Queens - ✔️✔️The valley is located near the better known Valley of the Kings, on the west
bank of the Nile across from Thebes (modern Luxor). This barren area in the western hills was chosen
due to its relative isolation and proximity to the capital. The kings of the 18th dynasty, instead of building
pyramids as traditional burial chambers (perhaps because of their vulnerability to tomb robbers), now
chose to be interred in rock-cut tombs.
This necropolis is said to hold more than seventy tombs, many of which are stylish and lavishly
decorated. An example of this is the resting place carved out of the rock for Queen Nefertari (1290-1224
BCE) of the 19th Dynasty. The polychrome reliefs in her tomb are still intact.
Valley of the Queens - ✔️✔️The valley was begun in the time of Ramesses I. Prior to that time wives
were generally buried with their husbands, and some continued to be so.
,Valley of the Queens - ✔️✔️This is a place in Egypt where wives of Pharaohs were buried in ancient
times. In ancient times, it was known as Ta-Set-Neferu, meaning -"the place of the Children of the
Pharaoh", because along with the Queens of the 18th, 19th and 20th dynasties (1550-1070 BCE) many
princes and princesses were also buried with various members of the nobility. The tombs of these
individuals were maintained by mortuary priests who performed daily rituals and provided offerings and
prayers for the deceased nobility.
Tutankhamun - ✔️✔️He was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled ca. 1332 BC - 1323 BC in
the conventional chronology), during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom. His
original name means "Living Image of Aten", while his changed name means "Living Image of Amun". In
hieroglyphs, the his name was typically written Amen-tut-ankh, because of a scribal custom that placed a
divine name at the beginning of a phrase to show appropriate reverence. He is possibly also the
Nibhurrereya of the Amarna letters, and likely the 18th dynasty king Rathotis who, according to
Manetho, an ancient historian, had reigned for nine years—a figure that conforms with Flavius
Josephus's version of Manetho's Epitome.
Tutankhamun - ✔️✔️The 1922 discovery by Howard Carter and George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
of his nearly intact tomb received worldwide press coverage. It sparked a renewed public interest in
ancient Egypt, for which his burial mask, now in Cairo Museum, remains the popular symbol. Exhibits of
artifacts from his tomb have toured the world. In February 2010, the results of DNA tests confirmed that
he was the son of Akhenaten (mummy KV55) and Akhenaten's sister and wife (mummy KV35YL), whose
name is unknown but whose remains are positively identified as "The Younger Lady" mummy found in
KV35.
Tutankhamun - ✔️✔️He was the son of Akhenaten (formerly Amenhotep IV) and one of Akhenaten's
sisters, or perhaps one of his cousins. As a prince he was known as Tutankhaten. He ascended to the
throne in 1333 BC, at the age of nine or ten, taking the throne name Nebkheperure. His wet-nurse was a
woman called Maia, known from her tomb at Saqqara.
When he became king, he married his half-sister, Ankhesenpaaten, who later changed her name to
Ankhesenamun. They had two daughters, both stillborn. Computed tomography studies released in 2011
revealed that one daughter died at 5-6 months of pregnancy and the other at 9 months of pregnancy. No
evidence was found in either mummy of congenital anomalies or an apparent cause of death.
Tutankhamun - ✔️✔️KV62
, Howard Carter - ✔️✔️This man, (9 May 1874 - 2 March 1939) was an English archaeologist and
Egyptologist who became world famous after discovering the intact tomb of 14th-century BC pharaoh
Tutankhamun (colloquially known as "King Tut" and "the boy king").
Howard Carter - ✔️✔️This man was born in London, the son of Samuel, an artist, and of Martha Joyce.
His father trained and developed His artistic talents.
He spent much of his childhood with relatives in the Norfolk market town of Swaffham, the birthplace of
both his parents. In 1891 the Egypt Exploration Fund (EEF) sent him to assist Percy Newberry in the
excavation and recording of Middle Kingdom tombs at Beni Hasan.
Although only 17, he was innovative in improving the methods of copying tomb decoration. In 1892 he
worked under the tutelage of Flinders Petrie for one season at Amarna, the capital founded by the
pharaoh Akhenaten. From 1894 to 1899 he worked with Édouard Naville at Deir el-Bahari, where he
recorded the wall reliefs in the temple of Hatshepsut.
Howard Carter - ✔️✔️In 1899, He was appointed as the first chief inspector of the Egyptian Antiquities
Service (EAS). He supervised a number of excavations at Thebes (now known as Luxor). In 1904 he was
transferred to the Inspectorate of Lower Egypt. He was praised for his improvements in the protection
of, and accessibility to, existing excavation sites, and his development of a grid-block system for
searching for tombs. The Antiquities Service also provided funding for him to head up his own excavation
projects, and during this time period he discovered the Tombs of Thutmose I and Thutmose III, although
both tombs had been robbed of treasures long before.
He resigned from the Antiquities Service in 1905 after formal inquiry into what became known as the
Saqqara Affair, a noisy confrontation between Egyptian site guards and a group of French tourists. He
sided with the Egyptian personnel.
Howard Carter - ✔️✔️After three hard years for this man, in 1907 Lord Carnarvon employed him to
supervise Carnarvon's Egyptian excavations in the Valley of the Kings. The intention of Gaston Maspero,
who introduced the two, was to ensure that he imposed modern archaeological methods and systems of
recording.
Carnarvon financed this man's work in the Valley of the Kings to 1914, but until 1917 excavations and
study were interrupted by World War I. Following the end of World War I, he aggressively resumed his
work.
After several years of finding little, Lord Carnarvon (this man's benefactor) became dissatisfied with the
lack of results. In 1922, Carnarvon informed him he had one more season of funding to search the Valley
of the Kings and find the tomb.
On November 4, 1922, his's excavation group found steps he hoped led to Tutankhamun's tomb
(subsequently designated KV62) (the tomb that would be considered the best preserved and most intact
pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings).
