The country of Egypt is located in the continent of Africa. About five thousand years ago, Egypt had a great big civilization along the banks of the Nile River. The hot, dry air helped preserve evidence of the civilization. This is how archeologists discovered many monuments, writings, paintings, and other items from ancient Egypt. The ancient Egyptian civilization lasted for over three thousand years.
Scribes, Warriors, and Kings: The City of Copan and the Ancient Maya William L. Fash Harvard University Jared Kopiczko History 134.122936.Online The Maya, one of the most important civilizations in the New World, flourished in the western part of Honduras for over two thousand years. They left an important legacy of art, mathematics and astronomy that still permeate our culture to this day. In modern day Honduras, we can still visit and study the ruins of their great cities and monuments and gaze in wonder at their massive technological achievements long before the aid of modern construction equipment. These ruins have long been the subject of intense study and many great books have been written about their life and times. The Maya
By the year 3000 BC, Egypt was divided into two areas upper In Ancient Egypt new cultures had developed early. By 3100 BC. King Menes untied upper, Lower Egypt two independent kingdoms along the Nile River to what has become a great empire. To start, Ancient Egypt and Africa is one of the best places to vacation on. For instance you can go on an hour tour or so and go and look at the Old Kingdom of Egypt which was known for there sun worship, pyramid building trading expedition as far as the North and the Black Sea.
Glynn Isaac, archeologist at Harvard University, exposes a 1.5 million year old site in Kenya. The stone tool and bone remnants discovered at the site were analyzed with a microscope, revealing that the tools had been used on
As each new group of people moved into the region governments were established. Much of Mesopotamian history lay buried beneath the sand and soil for thousands of years. However, there were clues, such as the ruins of ziggurats, that treasures lay below the surface. Mesopotamia lay in the region between the Euphrates River and the Tigris River, and because of the shape the area is called the Fertile Crescent. The word Mesopotamia actually means (in Greek) “the country between the rivers.
Many of us don’t even know it, but art is all around us and it has been here for several thousand years. The “Chauvet” cave paintings discovered in 1994 were created in 30,000 B.C.E. It is the oldest known painting and it was created during the Paleolithic Period or early “stone age” (Getlein 4). The earliest known architectural art is the “Stonehenge” in England created during
Jane recalled wondering "what kind of scientist he would find for such a herculean task. "(117 peterson) When they returned Leakey brought the study up again. Jane blurted, "Louis, I wish you wouldn't keep talking aout it, because that's just what i want to do. "(117) Leakey, waiting for her to say that, assigned her the
Glynn Isaac was an incredible archaeologist and his findings are still used today when reviewing both paleolithic and neolithic history of hominin species. Although his origins began in South Africa, he his now remembered throughout the world. Glynn Isaac was born in Cape Town, South Africa on November 19, 1937("Glynn Llewelyn Isaac"). By 1958 Glynn had obtained his first degree at the University of Cape Town and had begun his adventure into the realm of archaeology. He then moved on to Cambridge to continue his education and began actual work within the field of archaeology.
Many humans have marked their bodies with tattoos for thousands of years. These permanent designs are sometimes plain, sometimes detailed, and always personal. Tattoos has served as amulets, status symbols, declarations of love, signs of religion beliefs, and even forms of punishment. However, do you know where tattoos even began? The practice of tattooing in Europe can be traced back over 5000 years to a mummy found in an Italian glacier.
A brief on Egyptian blue Egyptian blue (cuprorivaite, CaCuSi4O10) was the first synthetic pigment ever produced by man; it is considered a great technology development in ancient Egypt from the 4th Dynasty (c.2613–2494 BC) till the Roman times, this pigment appeared in Egypt during the 3rd millennium BC [6]. This pigment consists of calcium copper tetrasilicate (cuprorivaite, CaCuSi4O10), a blue tabular crystal about 15 μm to 30 μm in length, residual silica (quartz and/or tridymite) and an amorphous silica-rich phase. This synthetic pigment was making by mixing calcium salt (carbonate, sulphate or hydroxide), a copper compound (oxide or malachite), sand (silica) and an alkali flux (sources of alkali could either have been natron from areas