New World Pyramids: Scientists Have Unearthed the Oldest Known City in the Americas, Showing That Urban Civilization Began Here 1,500 Years Earlier Than They ThoughtThey trekked for half a mile, stuffing some 70 pounds of stones collected from the riverbed and surrounding hillsides into open-...
Teotihuacanwas, at its height in the first half of the 1st millennium BCE, the largest pre-Columbian city in the Americas. The city during its existence was larger than any European city of the same era, possibly including Rome. The civilization and cultural complex associated with the site ...
in the 0 - 2nd dynasty royal cemetery at Abydoss, mounds, boat-pits and the proto-false door can all be seen, but there is no evidence of the pyramid shape, cardinal orientation, or polar shafts, suggesting the introduction of an unknown influence at some time around the third dynasty. ...
Tikal is one of the largest Mayan settlements in the Americas, located in Guatemala’s Peten basin and Tikal National Park. It was probably called Yax Mutal when it was a thriving city.The Great Plaza is particularly impressive, flanked on the east and west sides by two great temple-...
Theseminerals are not naturally found in Tikal which confirmsthat the Maya people used these intentionally to cleantheir water.This recent discovery proves for the first time thatsophiticated filtering systems also existed in theAmericas. Furthermore, the Mayans were the first touse the volcanic ...
founded by the Classic Veracruz culture. Most of the buildings at the site were constructed between 600 – 900 AD. El Tajin’s most famous building is the Pyramid of the Niches. The pyramid’s design is unique in the Americas and rises 20 meters (66 ft) on seven layers, with a wide ...
The Late Preclassic city of Mirador, in the northern Peten, was one of the greatest cities ever built in the pre-Columbian Americas. Its size dwarfed the Classic Maya capital of Tikal, and its existence proves that the Maya flourished centuries before the Classic Period. ...
根据第三段In other words,human beings hit this planet like an asteroid from space,and the "dust" is still affecting the livelihood of wildlife.换句话说,人类像小行星一样从太空撞击地球,"灰尘"仍然影响着野生动物的生计。可知,作者用了比喻的手法,把人类对地球物种的冲击比作小行星撞击地球,表明人类会...
Describes the pyramids of Egypt and the Americas and their significance in the social, political, and religious life of long-vanished civilizations.Anne Millard
根据第三段In other words,human beings hit this planet like an asteroid from space,and the "dust" is still affecting the livelihood of wildlife.换句话说,人类像小行星一样从太空撞击地球,"灰尘"仍然影响着野生动物的生计。可知,作者用了比喻的手法,把人类对地球物种的冲击比作小行星撞击地球,表明人类会...