Running head: Cahokia‚ America’s Lost City? Cahokia‚ America’s Lost City? Jennifer Sanchez Professor Chryst‚ Eng 115 Abstract Have you ever heard of Cahokia? In casual conversation‚ almost no one outside the St. Louis area has. Cahokia‚ America’s Lost City? Cahokia was the center‚ possibly the origin‚ of what anthropologists call Mississippian culture‚ a collection of agricultural communities that reached across the American Midwest and Southeast starting
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what was discovered but no matter how you look at it‚ you can’t make a mistake and not make a discovery. You can’t make a discovery without making a mistake. The “Goofs and Great Inventions” passage set proves this in each of the passages. In Lost Cities‚ Lost Treasure‚ Heinrich Schliemann was a trickster and a greedy man‚ but he still loved adventures and discovery. Frank Calvert did not have enough money to dig and discover in the part of Turkey that he owned and asked if Schliemann would help him
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The mystery of the lost city of Atlantis is an island that is thought to have mysteriously sank in a night and a day‚ but nobody really knows where it is located and how it disappeared Atlantis is a mysterious island that has been talked about for over 2‚000 years and most people say it is a legend. The Greek philosopher‚ Plato describes Atlantis as a strong and modern kingdom‚ that had mysteriously disappeared. Atlantis was mentioned in two of Plato’s dialogues‚ Timaeus and Critias. Both dialogues
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The Lost City Hydrothermal Field Revisited Characteristics of Lost City never before seen in the marine environment venting temperatures around 40-91 degrees Celsius metal-poor hydrothermal fluids with high concentratons of dissolved hydrogen‚ methane‚ and other low molecular weight hydrocarbons all driven by reactions in the underlying basement of the ocean at temperatures of around 200 degrees Celsius; happening for more than 40‚000 years Fauna and living species Microbiological communities
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The discovery of the lost Egyptian city after 1200 years. After 1200 years‚ the long lost Egyptian city Thonis-Heracleion was finally unearthed near Alexandria. Thonis-Heracleion was beginning to become extinct to memory of mankind. The only written evidence of this place was preserved in ancient classic texts and inscriptions found by archaeologists. The existence of this mythical city was confirmed to be true when discovered in the year 2000 by archaeologist Franck Goddio and the European institute
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The Lost City of Atlantis By:Braydin welch “The world is full of unsolved mysteries the ocean is one of the biggest mysteries‚ from walls found to big plane areas of architecture it all leads to the myth of Atlantis.” (A).Atlantis was once a wondrous city‚ but archaeologists and deep sea divers have not yet found it. Many scholars‚archaeologists‚ and deep sea divers work to find the answers behind the mysteries every day. The only record of Atlantis is in Plato’s writing‚ but there is no specific
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things that we use in our everyday lives. Some may consider these individuals to be “ underdeveloped”‚ but what if their way of living was much more complicated than we could have ever imagined? Hidden in the Amazon rain forest‚ there remains the Lost City of Z a wonder that has been dreamt about by many explorers for hundreds of years. It is predicted that Z may hold an unknown tribe and possibly valuable wealth and resources and iis lust after by so many explorers because it an an undiscovered area
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Lost City Radio Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon is gripping tale about a Latin American country before‚ during‚ and after a civil war. Although it is never fully explained‚ he describes the war in intermittent details‚ going back and forth while staying in the present. The story is wrought with love‚ filled with passion and enveloped in deception. Only the omnipotent narrator knows what the truth is and where things might go. Daniel Alarcon creates a beautiful and disturbing world in which the
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Imagine a whole city disappearing‚ completely sinking without a trace. The myth describes that it sank in one day and night. It seems far fetched‚ but many theories say it is true while others point out that it is a story. The Lost Cities of Atlantis is a story that was fabricated a long time ago. The story provides all the evidence that this is just a tale. The story of the Lost Cities of Atlantis was originally created by Plato in the “Timaeus” and “Critias”. The location of Atlantis is said to
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have been many stories over the years that have captured the imaginations of men but none so much as the Plato’s story about the Lost City if Atlantis. So is this story fact or fiction? Well nobody really knows‚ but there have been a lot of guesses and theories over the years‚ some with evidence and some without. It was Plato who first gave us the story about the city of Atlantis around 355 B.C. In Plato’s books he uses a type of writing where he used conversations between different people to
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