III. Find English equivalents of those expressions in the text:

• значною мірою зруйнована праця;

• розшифрувати ієрогліфи;

• випадкові відхилення;

• викликати значну увагу;

• сприяти розвитку Єгиптології;

• брати до уваги погляди;

• не брати до уваги/ставитися скептично;

• прийти до загальної згоди;

• невирішені питання

IV. Look through these words and expressions and provide their Ukrainian equivalents:

• to take over Egypt from French;

• Egyptologists of wide acclaim;

• ever-increasing knowledge;

• to engender comprehension of the written sources;

• techniques of field preservation, recording, and excavating;

• applications of modern sensing techniques;

• to be in a state of constant transition;

• internal problems of overall cohesion;

• to reconcile the Egyptian civilization with other concurrent civilizations;

• to undertake in the deads' honor;

• to have precise influence

V. Arrange the following words in pairs of antonyms:

onward	admiration
primary	to alienate
disdain	dissension
to further	backward
to reconcile	to prevent
consensus	weak
potent	last
preservation	to suppress
to engender	destruction

VI. Arrange the following words in pairs of synonyms:

to decipher	to initiate
to commence	full of
to discount	to decode
impetus	coincident
fraught with	deterioration
wear and tear	to ignore
concurrent	union
to feature	stimulus
cohesion	to outline

VII. Explain the following notions, which constitute the range of Ancient Egyptian cultures:

• flora;

• fauna;

• language;

• literature;

• religion;

• art;

• economics;

• ethics

VIII. Error correction. Define false statements and give their right versions:

• Egyptology is the separate field of ancient history and archaeology.

• Some of the first historical accounts of Egypt was given by Muslim historians.

• Scientific European exploration and travel writings of ancient Egypt commenced from the 13th century.

• Modern Egyptology is generally perceived as beginning with discovering Rosetta Stone.

• Rosetta Stone was used as primary aid in decipherment of the system of Egyptian hieroglyphics and provided ever-increasing knowledge of Egyptian writing and language.

• Egyptian Egyptology developed slowly because the disdain of pre-Islamic antiquity by some Muslims.

• In the Modern era excavations aren't controlled.

• Egyptologists study esoteric, or extraterrestrial, subjects and entertain views of the "New Age", ufology, occultism, "secret societies", or Atlantis ideas.

• The Egyptian languages and writing systems are still of importance in Egyptology.

• Countless relics and artifacts in Egyptian archaeology were missed and destroyed.

• The creation of a reliable Chronology of Ancient Egypt is in a state of constant transition.

• Mummification of the dead was always practiced in Egypt.