Sultan's Lost Treasure

Student Handout

Where, When, and Who?

You have been hired to help curators at the Museum of Anthropology. They have come across a number of older, unopened boxes that contain artifacts—or pieces of artifacts—from archeological expeditions. The museum wants you to sort through the artifacts and infer what country they came from, what time period they are from, and with whom they are associated.

Procedure

1. Empty the contents of your envelope onto a desk.

2. Look at each one of the artifacts from the envelope individually and then as a full set. Can anyone in your group identify any of them? Use resources suggested by your teacher for further identification and record your findings in your Artifact Log below.

3. Once you have identified as many artifacts as you can, look at the artifacts all together again and make some inferences about what you have found in your museum box.

Questions
Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

1. What country seems to be represented?

2. What time period seems to be represented?

3. Who is the historical person you would most closely associate with the artifacts?

4. Which artifacts were the most useful in helping you make your inferences? Which ones were least useful and why?

Artifact Log