If you expand this definition to include mound pyramids, then pyramids can be found on every continent in the world except Antarctica. It's unclear how many pyramids there really are in the world because many of the smaller ones would have likely been destroyed through erosion and vandalism. K...
The truth is that for millions of years the Antarctic continent may have had ideal conditions of civilization to develop. If –somehow— an ancient civilization did exist on Antarctica when it was covered in green vegetation, and a ‘tropical’ climate, then it’s obvious that we will find t...
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on the equinoxes, place a pebble at the tip of the shadow cast by any stationary object every hour or so. That line of pebbles will be absolutely perfectly aligned east and west.
The first Maya settlements were established on the continent of North America around 2000 BC. This ancient civilization greatly influenced the history of mankind with their writing, art, architecture, mathematical, and astronomical systems. And then it went into decline, leaving behind not only its ...
The project’s success lay in maintaining first-class management over some 10,000 workers, laboring for 10 hours a day, every day. On this relentless schedule the project was completed in only about 20 years. That works out to placing one block every two minutes!
Dubbed "The Palace on the Prairie," oil baron E. W. Marland hired architect John Duncan Forsyth to design the extravagant Italianate mansion after a trip to the continent. European craftsmen were imported to create gilded coffered ceilings and crystal chandeliers for the 55 room mansion,which ...
I determined to make the most of it in the sort of travel which chiefly interests me; so accompanied by my wife I drifted pleasantly down the Continent and embarked at Marseilles on the P. & O. SteamerMalwa,bound for Port Said. From that point I proposed to visit the principal historical...