were so spread. Rather, the peoples of each of these major cultural areas appear to have responded to their own internally generated stimuli and to have followed essentially separate courses of development. There are fundamental differences between the two cultural traditions. Thus, in Mesoamerica ...
In China, previously unknown pyramids were discovered quite recently (see Chinese Pyramids). In 1997, a ziggurat (step pyramid) was found submerged in the sea off the coast of the Japanese island of Yonaguni-Jima, an island located in the Pacific ocean between Okinawa and Taiwan (see Japanese...
Video is not available or format is not supported. Try a different browser. Teotihuacan, which means “place where the gods were created,” is located just outside Mexico City and is made up of asprawling complex of breathtaking monuments and pyramids. ...