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How much do you know about Egyptian London?  See how many of the following questions you can answer.  Click on the relevant Answer link to see the answer.
1 Where is the preserved head of the ‘Father of Egyptology’, Sir Flinders Petrie?
2 Where could you have found the tomb of Tutankhamun in London?
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3 Where did Wilson, Keppel and Betty perform ‘Cleopatra’s Nightmare’?
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4 Where were mummies unwrapped in royal palaces?
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5 Cleopatra’s Needle is now on the Embankment.  Where else might it have been set up?
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6 Where is the Egyptian inspired ‘Temple of Storms’?
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7 Who had a twenty-one foot long table centrepiece modelled on the temples of Ancient Egypt, and where can you see it now?
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8 Which famous Egyptologist gave his name to a character in the Fu Manchu stories of Sax Rohmer?
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9 Which famous giant of Egyptology lived in Half Moon Street, and what connects him with Sadlers Wells, Sotheby’s, and Freemason’s Hall?
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10 Which London square’s area is meant to correspond to that of the base of the Great Pyramid?
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11 Which Peer of the Realm was mummified in 1852, and buried in a real Egyptian sarcophagus?
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