In order for an idea or an object to be a classified as great discovery‚ it needs to have a resounding impact on millions of lives. Housed on the ground floor of the British Museum‚ usually surrounded by a crowd of people‚ is the greatest discovery of all time‚ the Rosetta Stone. In 1799‚ when Napoleon’s army was dismantling a wall in Rashid‚ Egypt‚ they discovered the Rosetta Stone. It was chiseled with inscriptions in two different languages‚ Egyptian and Greek‚ using three scripts‚ hieroglyphs
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The Washington Monument has many magnificent physical features. Like how it is the tallest freestanding structure in the United States of America. Standing at 515 feet tall! It is located in between 15th and 17th presidential street. It was designed to look like an Egyptian obelisk. There is also an elevator that lets you go up to the top on the inside‚ but you can’t go on the outside of the Washington Monument. The reason that they did that was so that people could see the cracks from the earthquake
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St. Mary’s Basilica One of the most recognizable and the biggest churches in Poland. It was built in 14th century in the Gothic style has two towers. The bigger one is 82meters high and the smaller is 69 meter. Inside the church visitors can admire the famous alter made by Wit Stwosz. This is the biggest gothic alter in Europe which measure 11 x 13 meters. Main Market Square Main Market Square in Cracow is perfectly square (200 x 200 meters). This is the crossroads of 11 streets. In the past
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Ramesses II was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who ruled ancient Egypt from 1279 B.C.E‚ to 1213 B.C.E. That was 66 Years! Ramesses was born in 1303 B.C.E‚ but sadly died in 1213 B.C.E. Since Ramesses II parent’s lived in the Nile Delta‚ he built a vast city which served as a base for campaigns in Asia. This city was called “Pi-Ramesse”‚ which means “House of Ramesses”. Ramesses II had lots of family member. His dad was Seti I‚ who was also a pharaoh‚ who ruled from 1290 B.C.E to 1279 B.C.E (11
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Machu Picchu is an absoultely stunning travel destination. Why? The stonework is some of the finest. The location was once a mystery and what it used to be is exhilarating. And last‚ there is just such beautiful artwork. One of the the amazing things is that the stoneworks at Machu Picchu is in the finest quality. In the article The Stones of Machu Picchu‚ Duane Damon states‚ "...walls of white granite ashlars [stone building blocks] carefully cut and exquisilely bitted together" (Damon). What
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Located in Southeastern Turkey‚ about 15 km from Sanliurfa‚ an ancient city which was also referred to as "City of the prophets‚" is Gobekli Tepe‚ the oldest man-made temple founded today (2). It dates back to 10‚000 BCE‚ and was discovered by Klaus Schmidt beginning with his excavations in 1995 with his team from the German Archeological Institute. The time period of Gobekli Tepe was put under category of the Pre-pottery Neolithic A Period‚ dating from 9600-7300 BCE (1). Schmidt explains
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Case study A blue paint layer sample was collected from the wall decorations of the mortuary temple of Ramesses III (Medinet Habu. This temple is one of the largest memorial temples in Egypt. It measures 320 m in length (east to west) and about 200 m in width (north to south)‚ built with order of the Pharaoh Ramesses III (c.1184–1151 BC the 20th Dynasty). The micro-XRF spectrometer (SPECTRO‚ COPRA model) used to analyze the sample includes a side-window X-ray tube with Mo anode (Oxford Instruments
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The Rosetta Stone is one of the most prolific pieces of Art in the Egyptian history. The struggles that were contrived from this Stone were immeasurable. The difficult process of this decoding was recorded in the book called‚ "The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone". Many have tried to decipher the Rosetta Stone‚ yet many have failed. The Rosetta Stone has been prompted by the most intelligent people on the earth. Riddles of the Rosetta Stone were to be first deciphered by scholars of Napoleon’s group
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Newgrange is a large circular hill with a diameter of ninety three yards‚ a height of fifteen yards‚ and an area of around one acre. The pathway inside Newgrange is under sixty feet long and guides you to a room with three openings that lead to other‚ smaller chambers. This room is roofed by a trussed supported ceiling‚ that has not been repaired in anyway since it was discovered. The cairn that covers the tomb is calculated to weigh two hundred thousand tons. Out of the three recesses the one on
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The comparison between the Head of Senusret III and Khafre is that they both ruled Egypt. Both sculptures where found in temple where their tombs were located. Also‚ their sculptures were use as The differences between the Head of Senusret III and Khafre is that they were made in different time periods. The first phot which is the Head of Senusret III was made during the Middle Kingdom and the photo‚ Khafre was made in the Old Kingdom. Even though Senusret III and Khafre were both pharaohs of Egypt
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