King Tut was king of Egypt for approximately four years so why do people consider him so important? Well it has always been scientist's interest in why this king died so young until 1922 when Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were exploring the ancient tombs of Egypt they discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamen (Tut). They discovered a funerary temple thought to be built by Tutankhamen; he died before he finished building it so his sons finished it. His tomb is buried a mile away from the funerary temple. The Valley of Kings is believed to be where many of King Tut's family was buried.
It was closed to visitors between 1992 and 1996 for restoration works; since it reopened only 80 people per day are allowed entry and there can be a 2–3 weeks wait to get a ticket. It was discovered by accident in 1902 when workers cutting cisterns for a new housing development broke through its roof. The workers tried to hide the temple at first, but eventually it was found. The study of the structure was first entrusted to Father Manuel Magri of the Society of Jesus, who directed the excavations on behalf of the Museums Committee. Magri died in 1907, before the publication of the report.
The animal I chose to do my report over for the prehistoric era is the Stegosaurus. Stegosaurus translates to meaning, “roof lizard or"plated lizard". Stegosauruses most likely lived during the late Jurassic period, about 156-140 million years ago. Fossils have been found in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, USA, and in North America, western Europe, southern India, China, and southern Africa. The first Stegosaurus fossil was found in Colorado, USA, in 1876 by M. P. Felch.
In Humbolt County, California in 1958, a large footprint was found at a construction site by Jerry Crew, a bulldozer operator. In the first story about the incident, "the tracks of old Big Foot" were mentioned in the first sentence. This is the first example of the term Bigfoot used in print. The early writers of the Bigfoot were unaware of the stories of the Sasquatch which had been popular in Canada since the 1920's. However, as more research was done the stories of the Sasquatch were found, and it was determined that the Sasquatch and Bigfoot were in fact the same creature.
Abstract From the nearly 7 million year old skull of the Sahelanthropus to the 28,000 year old skull of the Cro-Magnon or “Homo sapiens sapiens”, paleoanthropologists have been attempting to complete the human evolutionary timeline or “tree” in order to document and understand human origins; culturally and biologically for hundreds of years. Their efforts have not been unrewarded. The discovery of a nearly complete Homo erectus or possibly Homo ergaster skeleton also known as the “Nariokotome boy” in 1984 gave anthropologists an abundant amount of information concerning the capabilities and body proportions of this early hominin species. The skeleton is also classified as KNM-WT 15000 (Kenya National Museums-West Turkana). Discovery “In August 1984, a small piece of human cranial bone was recovered by Kenyan fossil-finder Kamoya Kimeu at a site located near the Nariokotome sand river, some 5 kilometers inland from the western shore of Lake Turkana, northern Kenya (F. H. Smith 1994: 418).” Kimeu was part of the Richard Leaky and Alan Walker excavation team.
Abstract: When Hiram Bingham first re-discovered Machu Picchu, he had no idea on what he had located. To him it seemed like a city and by the looking at the sites Bingham was able to come up with three theories on the site. These theories remained intact, until just recently when new discoveries started to raise questions about Bingham’s original statements about Machu Picchu. Introduction: In July of 2007 a new list of the 7 wonders of the World was released, among them was a site called Machu Picchu, located in Peru. With over hundreds of stone structures, and located on top of the Andean mountain; Machu Picchu has been said to be one of the most elegant, and mysterious discoveries in the world.
What an amazing landmark! Arizona is the perfect place for this but what are facts, history, and tourist attractions about this beautiful canyon. Keep reading and find out! Some facts about the Grand Canyon are it is very deep. It is 6000 feet deep and 10 miles wide.
The foundation of the field of geology itself in the middle of the nineteenth century paved the way for archaeology. Previous to scientists such as Cuvier, Smith, Hutton, and Lyell (page 7), the world was thought to be only 6,000 years old in the Western world. With the conscious decision by scholars to examine the natural world as a conglomerate of observable forces, scientists began to notice anomalies in geologic excavations. Things like manmade tools located near deposits of extinct animal skeletons questioned the traditional chronology of contemporary knowledge. In 1959 the scientists Sir Joseph Prestwich and John Evans studied these anomalies and popularized in the scientific community what is known as the “antiquity of man,” expanding the lifetime of humanity to be much older than most common folk imagined at the time (page 9).
What lead to their extinction will be discussed in this case study. As can be seen from the geological time scale above the dinosaurs existed for around 230 million years then 65 MYA they just simply disappeared, Dinosaurs first appeared during the Triassic period, around 230 MYA these very quickly become the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for 135 million years, from the beginning of the Jurassic right through to their extinction in the Cretaceous period. However, there is evidence in the fossil record that shows some birds survived the extinction event that occurred 65 MYA, and they continue the dinosaur’s lineage today. Scientific Background The Triassic Period The Triassic Period is the first period of the Mesozoic Era, the Triassic period is also referred to as a time to grow new species to repopulate the planet. This time was the new era known as the Mesozoic Era, Geologists call it a new era because the life supported on the continents was so different from that of life during the Palaeozoic era.
His main evidence was the continents appear to have a jigsaw like fit, the west coast of Africa and South America have the same pattern of rock layers and have the same plant and animal fossils; some of these animals are only found in those parts of the world and their fossils show they could not swim. Although it had been noted that the shapes of the continents seemed to fit together Wenger died in 1930 and his ideas had still not been accepted. This was because there was no explanation for how the continents moved and because he was not a geologist. In the 1950s and years later geologists began to consider the theory of continental drift due to fossil records from separate continents showing the same species and mineral specimens along the same break lines of the continents. His ideas were not fully accepted until the 1960s when the Atlantic Ocean floor was surveyed in detail and the mid Atlantic ridge was discovered.