Parthenon is a symbol of ancient Greece and of Athenian democracy. A great leader of Athens named Pericles convinced the Greeks to build temples. Pericles put four buildings on the Acropolis – Parthenon, Propylaea, Erechtheion, and the temple of Athena Nike. Pericles had a large scale plan on building Parthenon to bring glory to the city of Athens. Two of the architects who built the Parthenon were Ictinus and Callicrates.
The Great Pyramid of Khufu is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was built with 2.3 million stone blocks, and its top rose four hundred and eighty feet above the desert. Egyptians were the first to build using stone. They constructed ginormous pyramids and statues such as the Sphinx. Ancient Egyptian inventions include papyrus, sails, bowling, door locks, and a calendar with three hundred and sixty-five days in a year.
The three orders of columns used so deliberately on different temples and structures depending on who the temple was being built for. The columns had grooves in it because it gave the columns more visual volume than that of a plain one. The Ionic pillars at the Erechtheion were sculpted with women on them for decoration. The Parthenon is the temple to the goddess Athena on the acropolis in Athens. The Parthenon is probably the most well-known of all Greek temples and took more than a hundred years to be constructed.
The different pillar types allowed Greek researchers to observe how their architecture advanced over time: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian (Kellogg 74). As time went on, the basic structure of the temples that the pillars were used for stayed the same, but the pillars advanced to become more decorated and intricate. The Corinthian style eventually took over the Greek’s building and is greatly compared to Greek sculpture as well as architecture (Kellogg 86). As pointed out by both Kellogg and Duiker, the perfect example of Greek architecture is the Parthenon located on the Acropolis in Athens (Duiker 85-86). It is easy to see that the pillared architecture originated in Greece after seeing that all the best examples of it are located right in its original country, although there are some rather famous buildings that resemble ancient Greek architecture in our own country.
The Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, echoing the shape of the mountains surrounding the valley, served as focal points for Teotihuacan's urban layout. Beneath the pyramids are earlier structures; perhaps even tombs of Teotihuacan rulers are to be found within their stone walls. When the Pyramid of the Sun was completed circa 200 A.D., it was some 63 meters tall and 215 meters square. One of the largest structures ever built in the ancient Americas, its aspect today is the result of reconstruction and consolidation carried out in the early part of the twentieth century. Excavations in 1971 directly under the Pyramid of the Sun revealed a tunnel-like cave, ending in a cloverleaf-shaped set of chambers, apparently the scene of numerous ancient fire and water rituals.
The Sumerians who were the first people who built the earliest civilization of Mesopotamia, the language was the first human tongue to have been expressed into writing. The Sumerian writing where created to record economic resources account of a temple as a temple scribe. The writing was holly and difficult, that only certain chosen people can learn cuneiform and help temple to record. Cuneiform came from the Latin word cuneus, wedge. During the Mesopotamia period, people learnt to record events and important message on solid objects such as walls, clay tablets, and etc.
The Parthenon is a beautiful marble temple that served as a model for the architecture of the Lincoln Memorial. The Lincoln Memorial shares these same qualities with the Parthenon but instead, a statue honoring Abraham Lincoln is inside. The ancient Greeks very much enjoyed storytelling especially about heroes. Hercules is a very famous hero of the ancient Greek time who displays many of the same characteristics as America’s own hero, Superman. Hercules and Superman both are not real but Hercules left the impact of showing what an ideal hero looks like.
The Mayan calendar is a great example of how intelligent the Mayans were. They used astronomy to figure out that there were 365 days in a year. Their culture and religion also help to declare the Mayans as a great civilization. <br> <br>The Mayan calendar is very complex and accurate. It was made up of three different parts; the Tzolkin, the Haab, and the Long Count.
Nonetheless, the combination of these two elements made these pieces potent enough to shape the beliefs of millions. The oldest piece in this exhibition is the Bull Lyre, which possibly dates from 2500 to 2400 BCE.As it was recovered from a royal tomb in Ur (present day Iraq), the Penn Museum in Philadelphia restored parts of this musical instrument. This piece derived from the artisans of Ur, who skillfully used gold, silver, lapis
Sumerian kings built many towers to please and worship their gods. The towers were made of brick plat forms with shrines at the top. A Ziggurat was an ancient Mesopotamian tower with staircases outside and a shrine at the top.