1.) archaeologist - a scientist who studies the way people lived in the past
2.) authority - power to make or enforce rules or laws
3.) passage - a space along which something or someone may pass
4.) tombs - places for the burial of the dead
5.) valuable - precious or worth a lot of money
6.) priceless - worth more than any amount of money
7.) sarcophagus - a stone coffin
8.) triumph - a great success
9.) possessive - relating to a word or a form of a word that shows that something or someone belongs to something or someone else
10.) compare - to look at (two or more things) closely in order to see what is similar or different about them or in order to decide