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Architecture And Burials In The Maya Aztec
1,196 wordsPlundering and carnage were the overlying results of the Spanish conquest of MesoAmerica beginning in 1519. The ensuing years brought many new "visitors, " mostly laymen or officials in search of wealth, though the Christianity toting priest was ever present. Occasionally a man from any of these classes, though mainly priests would be so in awe of the civilization they were single handedly massacring that they began to observe and document things such as everyday life, religious rituals, economi...
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Canopy Jars Body Cavity
575 wordsMummification in ancient Egypt was a very long and expensive process. From start to finish, it took about seventy days to embalm a body. Since the Egyptians believed that mummification was essential for passage to the afterlife, people were mummified and buried as well as they could possibly afford. High-ranking officials, priests and other nobles who had served the pharaoh and his queen had fairly elaborate burials. The pharaohs, who were believed to become gods when they died, had the most mag...
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Canopy Jars Ancient Egyptians
1,292 wordsWhen you think of a mummy what comes to mind? Most of us usually picture an Egyptian mummy wrapped in bandages and buried deep inside a pyramid. While the Egyptian ones are the most famous, mummies have been found in many places throughout the world, from Greenland to China to the Andes Mountains of South America. A mummy is the body of a person (or an animal) that has been preserved after death. Normally when we die, bacteria and other germs eat away at the soft tissues (such as skin and muscle...
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Dead Person Middle Ages
1,884 wordsDeath ends a life, Not a relationship. - Jack Lemmon Pagan roots of modern funeral practice Perhaps discussing of death and burial process is a welcome subject for most people, but it is an integral part of our life so we are to talk about these subjects. Some of the old practices were lost when indigenous religions encountered militant Christianity and were forced to go underground for survival. But however, parents transmitted their traditions to their children. I think in this way some old tr...
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Secretary Of War Young Soldiers
2,042 wordsArlington National Cemetery Arlington National Cemetery is one of our most spectacular monuments of glory, one of the most significant and sacred memorials of American nation. It is one of the largest and oldest military cemeteries of the USA, where more than 260 thousand veterans of all historical wars (starting from heroes of Independence War and ending with the soldiers, who died in Afghanistan and Iraq) and members of their families are buried. Every year about 5. 5 thousand of new burials a...
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Shang And Zhou Cultures Shang And Zhou Sites
369 wordsHow do we know what we know about the Shang and Zhou cultures? The information and knowledge that archeologists and historians have gathered about the Shang and Zhou cultures come from archaeological sites as well as from ancient literal texts. The two largest sites for the Shang culture are the Zhengzhou and the Anyone sites. At Zhengzhou, there was a wall surrounding the capital city which ran 2385 ft long, 30 ft high and 60 ft wide (the massive size of the wall indicates that the Shang cultur...
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Sun And Moon Aubrey Holes
2,656 wordsBehind every great structure in the world, there are the people who made them, and who took the time and effort to design them. Those who made Stonehenge succeeded in creating an incredibly complex and mysterious structure that lived on long after its creators were dead. The many aspects of Stonehenge and the processes by which it was built reveal much about the intelligence and sophistication of the civilizations that designed and built the monument, despite the fact that it is difficult to fin...
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Aubrey Holes Salisbury Plain
5,149 wordsStonehenge, one of the great Seven Wonders of the World, but what do we really know about it. What was its purpose, how was it built and by whom. Many different answers come up when asking the question What is Stonehenge? Behind every great structure in the world, there are the people who made them, and who took the time and effort to design them. Those who made Stonehenge succeeded in creating an incredibly complex and mysterious structure that lived on long after its creators were dead. The ma...
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