1. What did the robbers do in order not to be seen or heard by the archaeolog ists?
• They used two land cruisers with local number plates.• They switched their lights and engines.• They stopped 200 metres from the tents of the archaeolog ists and walked 50 metres through darkness.

2. What (equipment ) did they use in the robbery?


They used Ground Penetratin g Radar (GPR), a machine like a large camera connected to a computer, a pickaxe and a heavy hammer

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3. What equipment did the men use to see through walls?

They used Ground Penetratin g Radar (GPR).

4. How did the machine (GPR) show what was behind the walls?

It transmitte d radio waves through the wall. When the waves hit something on the other side, they came back to it. The computer changed the radio waves into a picture.

5. What did the men find in the undergroun d rooms?

They found ancient Egyptian mummies , gold and other treasures.


6. Why were the men excited when they went through the gold doors of the tomb?

Because there were lots of treasures in the room.


7.Why did the small man shout 'Let's go out of here


Because the spiders were biting them all.


8.Why did the oldest man of the robbers believe that the spiders were not deadly?

Because there were not any deadly spiders in Egypt

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9.Why were the spiders an unknown species?

Because no one had seen them and they were not on the database.


10.What were the men inside the helicopter doing?


They were on their way to a transmitte r in the desert, which had a
technical problem. 16.In the pilot's opinion, what killed the four men?The pilot thought they had died of thirst.

11.How did the engineer save the pilot's life?

When the engineer suggested getting on the radio to the police, the pilot left the car and returned to the helicopter . His hand had been near the spiders before he moved away. They could have bitten and killed him.


12. What was Ayman's favourite hobby?

It was using the internet.

13. How was the internet useful for Ayman?

He used it for his studies and for making friends in other countries.

14. Why didn't the spider attack Najat?

Because her foot moved away.

15. What showed that Ayman wasn't afraid of the spider?

He was kneeling very close to it. He was more interested than afraid

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16. Why wasn't the spider that Ayman saw an ordinary one?

Because it was very large, the size of an apple

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17. According to the story on the internet, how did the old Egyptian town disappear?
The people burnt the town. They hoped to kill all the spiders.


18. In Dr Fakhry's opinion, what is possible reason for the disappeara nce of the town ?


The climate became drier, so the town perhaps disappeare d under
the desert sand.

19. Where did Dr Shereen Fakhry work?

She worked at the department of Egyptology at Oxford University .


20. Why did Dr Fakhry feel "a cold shiver down the back of her neck" when she saw the
spider in the picture which an archaeolog ist e-mailed her?


Because the spider in the picture was like the spider Ayman had described.

21. Why didn't Ayman want to tell the police about the spider?
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Because he thought that everyone would laugh at him.

22. Why did Dr Fakhry think that the spiders in the German Egyptologi st's text were real?

Because they were in a medical text (manuscrip t).

23. Why did Ayman think that the killer spiders in ancient Egypt were not the same as the spider he saw?
Because there are not any killer spiders in modern Egypt.
24-Who was Susan Bennett?
- She was a zoologist. She worked at Zoology Department at Oxford University .
25-Why did Professor Jones think spiders are very useful animals?
- Because they eat insects like flies, mosquitoes and other pests.
26- Why did professor Jones think that hospitals couldn't treat the spiders' bites?

Because there was no antivenom for them.
27- Why did professor Jones think that the spider in Hamdayya was female?
Because the spider was very big and female spiders are usually bigger than males
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28- Why hadn't anybody seen the dangerous spider before?
Because they lived
under the ground in a remote part in the desert.
29- What must be done to stop the deadly spiders from spreading through Africa, Asiaand Europe? The female spider that Ayman saw must be found before its eggs develop.
30- What was the ancient Egyptian medicine for the deadly spiders made from?
It was made from the roots of the Echinacea Negra.31- How did Dr Fakhry know about this medicine?
She knew about the medicine from a German Egyptologi st who translated a 2,000 years old text about the medicine.
32- What did Ayman's family think of Ayman's story about the spiders?
His family thought that half of the story was true and the other half was Ayman's imaginatio n.
33- Why didn't Ayman's uncle think that he should tell the police about the spider?
Because he didn't want to worry people unnecessar ily.

34- How would the stories about dangerous spiders affect the businesses in the town?
Businesses in the town would lose money. People wouldn't stay in hotels, they wouldn't eat at restaurant s and they wouldn't buy the food products.
35- Ayman's parents and his uncle were shocked when they read the e-mail from Dr Fakhry to Ayman. Give a reason.
Because they found out that he had already told other people aboutthe spiders.
36- Why did Colonel Mikhail invite professor Jones and Ayman to the police station?

Because he wanted to get informatio n about the spiders.

37- Why did Colonel Mikhail hope the spiders were known species?
so that there would be an antivenom for their bites.
38- Why did professor Jones, Captain Ahmed and Ayman go to the archaeolog ical site?

They went there to find the spiders like the one Ayman had seenand identify it

39- What did Colonel Mikhail ask professor Jones to do?
He asked him to find one of the spiders and identify it.