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The Mystery of King Tut's Death The Mystery of King Tut's Death If you ask the average American to name an egyptian king ninety nine percent of the time they will spout out the name king Tutankhamun or king Tut for short with out really even thinking about it. Why is that so many automatically associate an egyptian casket with the one that was unearthed in Tut's tomb? Maybe it has something to do with the kings appointment at such a young age and the mysterious

The Great Pyramids Throughout the thousands of years that the Great Pyramid has been standing, there have been many myths and legends that sprung up. Among them was a landing site for alien spacecraft, a spacecraft itself, or the means to predict the future. This report is going to explain the actual reason the Great Pyramid of Giza exists, how and why it has existed for so long, and the story of its construction. The builder of the Great Pyramid does not get enough credit for his unbelievable

“In the previous year, 202 major disasters were experienced by the Philippines alone. These recorded disasters, comprised of man-made disasters, such as fires and armed conflict, as well as natural ones, such as typhoons and flooding, have disrupted as much as 7 million lives in the last year (Philippine Disaster Report: Disaster Statistics 2010).“ Statistics like these and events in world history have proven that disasters are inevitable; that even the most cataclysmic and devastating

Comparing Roman and Greek Art Throughout history art has consistently reflected the cultural values and social structures of individual civilizations. Ancient art serves as a useful tool to help historians decipher some important aspects of ancient culture. From art we can determine the basic moral and philosophical beliefs of many ancient societies. The differences in arts purpose in Greece and Rome, for example, show us the fundamental differences in each culture's political and moral

Let us first begin by unraveling what Plenty Coup meant when he said, “When the Buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground, and they could not be lifted up again. After this nothing happened”. The buffalo going away could mean many different things. First of all, it could be literal in that the buffalo were hunted to extinction when white settlers move westward across the plains. This of course meant that the Crow, who depended on the buffalo, would have lost their primary resource

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene. By ANNA LOWENHAUPT TSING, HEATHER ANNE SWANSON, ELAINE GAN and NILS BUBANDT (Editors). (Minneapolis, London: University Of Minnesota Press, 2017. Pp. 368. Price £22.99.) Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet… emerged as an outcome of an international and interdisciplinary conversation, which took place during the eponymous conference at the University of California in 2014. The book’s contributors unpack controversies

The reason the Great Pyramid was built was for the Old Kingdom ruler Khufu, the pyramid had a burial chamber built inside with a stone sarcophagus because Khufu had planned to be bur-ied and that was going to hold his mummified body. The pyramid was also known to be designed before Khufu had died, so that probably means that the passageways had to be built leading to the outside and to the burial chamber so that Khufu’s mummi-fied body could be transported to his final resting place (Snape 6). So

For most people, Egypt is one of the first things to come to mind upon the mention of “mummies.” Even in the entertainment industry, Egypt is depicted as mummy headquarters. What most people do not know, however, is that ancient people were mummified in many parts of the world, not just Egypt. They are commonly found in South America. In fact, South American mummies are speculated to be even older than those of Egypt (“The Earliest Mummies”). These lesser-known specimens were often prepared the same

For over a decade Nefertiti, wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten originally known as Amenhotep IV, was an influential woman in the Bronze Age. Her image and name were renowned throughout Upper and Lower Egypt. Suddenly, after the end of the reign of Akhenaten, Nefertiti disappeared from the royal family, vanishing so completely that it was as if she had never been. No known record survives to detail her death; no found monument serves to represent the mourning of her death. To this day her expiration

Old Kingdom : Around the time of 2700-2000 B.C. many pyramids were built, and the pharaohs were seen as a God. Pyramids were built to preserve the pharaoh's body, also known as mummification. They were mainly built at Giza of Egypt, and the biggest pyramid was 481 feet tall, pyramid of Khufu. They were built with limestone, and the chambers were built with granite. Their kingdom ended because of famine, and the pharaoh loss of power. 1st Intermediate Period : Around the time of 2200-2050 B.C. it