What is the epithet commonly used to refer to the collector of antiquities and explorer who first set foot inside the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings and discovered Seti’s sarcophagus?

The Great Belzoni

Which is the ancient desert city protected by high cliffs on all sides that was home to the Nabataeans and was mentioned by the Greek geographer Strabo?

Petra

Who is often considered to be the founder of Egyptian archaeology, even though his techniques of excavation, which included the use of explosives, were criticized by later generations?

Auguste Mariette

Which ruins excavated by Sir Arthur Evans in Knossos, Crete, revealed clay tablets with inscriptions?

Palace of Minos

In which ruined city did Frederick Catherwood and John Lloyd Stephens discover “The Temple of the Inscriptions”?

Palenque

Which underground rooms were a common feature of many ancestral Pueblo societies?

Kivas

Where did archaeologists discover boiled birch-bark documents showing that medieval people in a wide variety of professions outside the church were literate?

Veliky Novgorod

What is the site of the oldest known cave paintings discovered in southern France, tentatively dated to 32,000 years old?

Chauvet–Pont d’Arc

In 1873 who discovered a cache of gold and other artifacts called Priam’s Treasure whose authenticity was later disputed?

Heinrich Schliemann

Where do over 600 colossal moai statues, carved from hardened volcanic ash, punctuate the barren landscape?

Easter Island