| TUTANKHAMEN | Egyptian pharaoh (14th century BC) whose virtually intact tomb was discovered in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 (11) |
| CARTER | Archaeologist whose excavations in the Valley of the Kings, financed by the 5th Earl of Carnarvon of Highclere Castle, led to said Egyptologist's discovery of the intact tomb of the boy-pharaoh Tutank |
| PHOEBE | Satellite of the planet Saturn that was discovered in the late 19th Century (6) |
| HOWARDCARTER | Archaeologist who found the intact tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 (6,6) |
| RENO | It was discovered in the forenoon in Nevada (4) |
| PHIDIAS | Athenian sculptor of the 5th century BC whose statue of Zeus at Olympia (c. 430 BC) was one of the Seven Wonders of the World (7) |
| MANETHO | Egyptian priest of the 3rd century BC whose Greek Aegyptiaca (History of Egypt) originated the concept of pharaonic dynasties (7) |
| DRACO | Athenian legislator of the 7th century BC whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offence (5) |
| GREATBELZONI | In 1817, this collector of antiquities and explorer first set foot inside the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings, where he discovered Seti's sarcophagus. He was known by many epithets, but the |
| NEFERTITI | Wife and queen of the 14th-century BC Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, a bust of whom is displayed in Berlin's Neues Museum (9) |
| TUT | King ___ (pharaoh whose tomb was discovered in 1922) |
| AMOS | Prophet of the 8c BC whose writings form one book of the Old Testament (4) |
| CHEOPS | Greek name of the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu (26th century BC), builder of the Great Pyramid at Giza (6) |
| ECHO | Part of pharaoh celebrations around what's heard again and again in the Valley of the Kings presumably (4) |
| SCOTA | Daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh and ancestor of the Gaels (connected to the Stone of Scone legend) |
| IMHOTEP | Chief minister of the Egyptian pharaoh Djoser (2630-2611 BC), posthumously identified with Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine (7) |
| MENANDER | Comic dramatist of ancient Greece (c. 342-292 BC) whose only complete extant play is Dyskolos (The Grouch or The Curmudgeon) (8) |
| CONFUCIUS | Chinese moral philosopher (551-479 BC) whose ideas were posthumously collected in the Analects (9) |
| BHAGAVADGITA | A sacred Hindu text composed around 200 BC whose name means 'song of the Blessed One' |
| EPICURUS | Greek philosopher, 341 BC - 270 BC. whose name is now associated with lovers of pleasure, especially food and dirk (8) |