1. Middle East
Journey to a Magical Underwater World "It's just impossible sir, no sub could take that much pressure." "I came to you because you"re the best. Are you going to live up to your reputation?" The engineer looked apprehensive. His eyes held the memory of a hundred expeditions like this one, all ...
EGYPT Did you know that the Great Pyramid of Khufu is the biggest one of all because it stands 450 feet high and 755 feet square? It was made from 2 million or more giant blocks of stone. I bet you didn't know that the al Azhar Mosque University might be the oldest university. It was built in 971...
Two very famous locations, the Cave of Lascaux and The Altamira, contain elaborate drawings for miles underground. ... The Roman written hand took several forms, such as Capital is Quadrata (square capitals), a style widely used from the second century CE until the 5th (these are where Capital letters originated). ...
The Egyptians may have used simple tools such as square-levels and plumb lines, but still they were able to achieve an astonishing degree of accuracy. ... In addition, granite blocks that were used to line the burial chambers were brought from Aswan, 580 miles to the south. ...
Egypt People Egypt's population was estimated in July 2002 at 70,818,000. The statistics of urban verses rural is 44% urban and 56% rural. 90% of Egypt's population is concentrated in the Nile Delta. There were many different races of people who conquered Egypt. Those people mixed with the E...
VOCABULARY Archaeology: the scientific study of ancient people and cultures principally revealed through excavation. Cromlech: a circle of megaliths. Henge: a Neolithic monument, characterized by a circular ground plan. Used for rituals and marking astronomical events. Megalith: a stone of great size used in the construction of a prehistoric structure. ...
