Secret of the Pyramids Word Count: 467 The Great Pyramid of Giza The precise design and construction of The Great Pyramid of Giza also known as The Great Pyramid of Khufu remains a mystery. The first wonder of the Seven Wonders of the World‚ The Great Pyramid is the largest pyramid of its kind in the world‚ standing 481 feet in height. Throughout the years there have been many different theories of how this pyramid was built. Archeologist John Romer claims that he has cracked one of the
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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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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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Compulsory English Grade 10 Full marks : 75 Time: 2:15 hours Pass marks: 24 1. Read the following poem and do the activities that follow. 5 Breathes there the man‚ with soul so dead‚ Who never to himself hath said‚ “This is my own‚ my native land
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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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- = Primeval Mound = - By Sophia Stiles Dear Paradox‚ Here I am at Egypt again‚ sent on another mission. However‚ this time I got to research something of my choice‚ so I chose the Primeval Mound. Below is a transcript of the interview I had with a man named Aruk who offered to explain to me what the Primeval Mound was in the temple of Karnak. Just so you know‚ later we took and break and continued our interview outside the temple‚ not the inside. Hope you enjoy! - = + = - Aruk: So‚ foreigner
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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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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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These pyramids took place in the Third Dynasty during 2630-2575 BC. King Djoser commissioned this monumental architecture in Egypt. The designer was Djoser’s prime minister‚ Ihotep‚ whose name is inscribed on a statue at the site. The purpose was to hold his mummified body. The Step Pyramid of Pharaoh Djoser’s at Saqqara arose as a traditional‚ flat-roofed mastaba‚ although in 2611 B.C.‚ by the end of his nineteen-year reign‚ it had risen to six stepped layers and stood two hundred and four feet
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THE GREAT PYRAMID OF KHUFU For generations now‚ people have been wondering how the Egyptians could have built such impressive monuments as the pyramids. Thjere are many different theories as to how they were actually built. in my opinion‚ alternative #3 by Joseph Davidovits and Margie Morris is the strongest argument because it presents the most convincing evidence about what really happened. They also point out weaknesses in the other two theories. In the first viewpoint‚ Erich von Daniken believes
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