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World Mysteries Lost Civilization

World Mysteries Lost Civilization. Can you identify any world-renowned mysteries on the five continents?. The Nazca Lines. Location: Peru Time: 200 B.C.~700 A.D. Discovered by Paul Kosok, 1939

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World Mysteries Lost Civilization

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  1. World MysteriesLost Civilization Can you identify any world-renowned mysteries on the five continents?

  2. The Nazca Lines • Location: Peru • Time: 200 B.C.~700 A.D. • Discovered by Paul Kosok, 1939 • There are hundreds of individual figures, ranging in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks, llamas and lizards.

  3. Right: Spiral of Consciousness Left: The Monkey with a Spiraling Tail

  4. Machu Picchu (Old Peak) • Location: Peru, the Andean Mountain • Time: 1400 A.D. Incan Civilization • Discovered by Hiram Bingham, 1911 • Invisible from below and completely self-contained, surrounded by agricultural terraces, Machu Picchu seems to have been utilized by the Inca as a secret ceremonial city. • The cloud-shrouded ruins have palaces, baths, temples, storage rooms and some 150 houses, all in a remarkable state of preservation.

  5. The Intihuatana StoneAstronomical Observatory

  6. Chichen Itza(At the mouth of the well of the Itza) • Location: Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico • Time: Maya Civilization / the Toltec • Discovery: Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens& Frederick Catherwood, 1843 Desire Charnay,1860 Augustus Le Plongeon,1875 Edward Thompson,1894 Sylvanus Morley,1913

  7. El Castillo(Temple of Kukulkan)

  8. Feathered Serpent

  9. Temple of the Warriors

  10. Chac Mool

  11. Cenote

  12. Great Ballcourt

  13. Teotihuacan(Birthplace of Gods) • Location: Mexico • Time: 200 B.C.~750 A.D. • The original name of the place is unknown. Its current name was given by the Aztecs long after the city’s decline and abandonment.

  14. Street of the Dead

  15. The Pyramid of the Sun

  16. The Pyramid of the Moon

  17. Stonehenge • Location: Salisbury Plain, England • Time: Pre-historic monument • Arthurian Legend: Geoffrey of Monmouth said that Merlin the wizard directed its removal from Ireland, where it has been constructed on Mount Killaraus by Giants, who brought the stones from Africa.

  18. Stonehenge in 1877

  19. Stonehenge Now

  20. The Moai Statues • Location: Easter Island, Southeastern Pacific Ocean, Chile • Polynesian • The statues are actually complete torsos, the figures kneeling on bent knees with their hands over their stomach.

  21. Moai statues with heads and truncated torsos

  22. Moai with Pukau

  23. Scholars are unable to explain the function and use of Moai statues.

  24. World Wonders • Besides world mysteries, there are famous seven or even more world wonders, please give a detailed presentation about at least one world wonder. • Ex. 1 The Great Wall in China • Ex. 2 Taj Mahal in India • Ex. 3 Angkor Wat in Cambodia • Ex. 4 The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt

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