...The pyramids of Giza hold the secrets of an ancient culture that thrived over 4500 years ago, they are the last standing wonder of the world. This civilization made such a wonder than has a very unquiet astronomical mystery. The Egyptians where smarter than the time era would indicate, placing the pyramids in such a pattern with Orin’s belt or with the path of the Sun is astronomically magnificent and incredible use of Trigonometry. Throughout history we have seen cultures that have advanced gratefully in their own respect but nothing like the Egyptians. Egyptians pyramids and the Great Sphinx have some great Mathematical and Astronomical significance. They were not randomly placed and randomly built, they had a purpose and still have a...
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...The pyramids were so important to the ancient egyptians because they were built to put the pharaohs and queens in their tombs. The ancient egyptians worshipped their gods and that was important to them because their pharaohs who they worshipped is in the pyramids. The pyramids were also important because of all the hard work they put into the pyramids. The ancient egyptians were also because after they died they had to put the pharaohs and queens somewhere for their afterlife. The pyramids symbolized that they had a place to go after death. And that they were for the pharaohs and queens. The pyramids also symbolized that they honored the pharaohs and queens and they were buried to get ready for their afterlife. They had to build pyramids...
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...1)What does the study of humanities involve? What is the relevance of humanities in architecture? 1.The study of humanities involves academic disciplines that study human culture and history. The humanities include ancient and modern languages ,literature, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts such as music and theatre. We learn about distant cultures or past cultures. Through the exploration of humanities we learn how to think creatively and critically to reason and ask questions. These efforts preserve the great accomplishments of the past help us understand the world we live in and give us tools to imagine the future. 2.What are the broad divisions of human history? Write a brief on each. Prehistory (meaning "before history", or "before knowledge acquired by investigation", from the Latin word for "before," præ, and historia) is the span of time before recorded history or the invention of writing systems. Prehistory refers to the period of human existence before the availability of those written records with which recorded history begins. More broadly, it can refer to all the time preceding human existence and the invention. The term "prehistory" can refer to the vast span of time since the beginning of the Universe, but more often it refers to the period since life appeared on Earth, or even more specifically to the time since human-like beings appeared.[4][5] In dividing up human prehistory, prehistorians typically use the three-age system, whereas scholars...
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...Characters: Santiago Shepherd boy, the protagonist of The Alchemist. He travels from Andalusia in southern Spain to the Egyptian pyramids in search of hidden treasure, learning life lessons along the way. Santiago is a dreamer and a seeker, and he stands for the dreamer and seeker in all of us. Old Woman A fortune teller, and possibly a gypsy, she interprets Santiago's recurring dream, but in a manner so straightforward that he finds it suspect and disappointing. Melchizedek/King of Salem An anonymous old man who is in fact a powerful figure from the Old Testament, he explains to Santiago what a Personal Legend is and urges the shepherd boy to follow his dream. Aside from Santiago himself, Melchizedek is the most important character in The Alchemist. Crystal Merchant A middle-aged resident of Tangier, he hires Santiago to work in his shop. The crystal merchant's Personal Legend is to make a pilgrimage (or haj) to Mecca, but he knows he will never fulfill this dream. He is Santiago's foil, a character who characterizes another by contrast. Englishman A bookish pedant obsessed with alchemy who hopes to learn the fabled craft from a famous alchemist rumored to live at the Al-Fayoum oasis that lies between Tangier and the pyramids. In The Alchemist, the Englishman stands for the limits of book learning. Camel Herder Once a prosperous farmer, his valuable orchards were wiped out by a flood, forcing him into a new line of work. He teaches Santiago the importance of living in the...
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...works of Egyptian architecture; the Egyptian pyramids and the great temple of Ammon, Karnak. Design The ancient Egyptian pyramids are pyramid-shaped structures that were built as tombs for Pharoahs. The ancient Egyptians believed that the Pharaohs were chosen by God to serve as mediators between humans and gods, hence they were treated with a lot of respect. After their death, they were buried in pyramid together with their possessions that would be useful to them in their afterlife. The shape was also influenced by the belief that they were “launch pads” for the soul of the dead Pharaoh to the sky to live with the imperishable stars. Others believed the pyramids were a stairway for the souls of the Pharaoh to climb to the sky. There are no existing records of the building plans used to build the pyramids, and as a result most of the design schemes that people have come up with over the years are speculative. Different theories have been put forward as to why they were built in the shape of a pyramid.the most common is that this shape reflects the rays of the sun. In his book The Keys to the Temple, David Furlong (1997, pp ) believed that the ancient Egyptians worked on the plan of the pyramids in the form of a triangle, basing their calculations on the basic properties of a triangle such as equal sides and the angles of an equilateral triangle. He came up with a basic plan of how the pyramid’s plan might have looked through use of basic geometry. See figure 1 Pyramids are believed...
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...Khufu (a.k.a. Cheops) was the second pharaoh to rule Ancient Egypt during the fourth dynasty, in the first half of the Old Kingdom. With Khufu’s birth name being Khnum-Khufwy, the name Khnum represents the ram-headed god of procreation, water, and fertility. His reign as pharaoh was estimated to last from 2589 BC through 2566 BC, and was also born on 2620 BC and died in 2566 BC. The first pharaoh of the fourth dynasty was Sneferu, Khufu's father, who married Queen Hetepheres I and had Khufu as their only child. Khufu had nine sons and fifteen daughters, with Meritites I being the spouse, including each member to be held in an impressive position at the royal court. Whether you have come across several texts, I’m pretty sure you have...
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...The Alchemist The Alchemist is a novel first published in 1988 by Brazilian-born author Paulo Coehlo. It has sold more than 65 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best selling books of all time, and has been translated in over 60 languages. The book follows an adventurous shepherd boy named Santiago who has recurring dream leads him on a journey to find hidden treasure. The book begins Santiago has the same troubling recurring dream, when sleeping under a sycamore that grows out of the ruins of a church, of a child telling him to seek treasure at the base of the Egyptian pyramids. After a gypsy tells him to go to Egypt once hearing his dream, a strange old man appears, claiming to be the King of Salem, tells him it is his Personal Journey to go to Egypt. After selling his flock, Santiago travels to Tangier but immediately gets robbed of all his money, forcing him to work for a crystal merchant. There he transforms the humble store into a thriving business making him rich, but ultimately he decides to continue on his Personal Journey. He joins a caravan crossing the Sahara dessert towards Egypt, and meets an Englishman who is studying to be an Alchemist. The Englishman teaches Santiago a great deal about Alchemy, and tells him he is going to Al-Fayoum to meet a powerful 200-year-old Alchemist. After the caravan is forced to stay in Al-Fayyoum because of tribal wars in the area, Santiago meets a girl named Fatima and both fall in love. When on a walk Santiago sees...
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...Plot The Alchemist follows the journey of an Andalusian (southern Spanish) shepherd boy named Santiago. Believing a recurring dream to be prophetic, Santiago decides to travel to a Romani fortune-teller in a nearby town to discover its meaning. The gypsy woman interprets the dream as a prophecy telling the boy that there is a treasure in the pyramids in Egypt. Early into his journey, he meets an old king, whose name was Melchizedek, who tells him to sell his sheep to travel to Egypt and introduces the idea of a Personal Legend (which is always capitalized in the book). Your Personal Legend "is what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is."[3] He adds that "when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." This is the core theme of the book. Along the way, Santiago meets an Englishman who has come in search of an Alchemist and continues his travels with him. They travel through the Sahara desert and during his journey, Santiago meets and falls in love with a beautiful Arabian woman named Fatima, who resides with her clan near around the desert Oasis. He asks Fatima to marry him, but she says she will only marry him after he completes his journey and finds his treasures. He is perplexed by this, but later learns that true love will not stop nor plead to sacrifice one's Personal Legend, and if it does, it is not true love. Santiago then encounters a lone alchemist who also teaches...
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... “Who done it?” question are the Great Pyramids of Giza, located in Egypt. Established during the fourth dynasty of the Egyptian empire, which spanned from 2575-2450 BCE, the construction of these architectural...
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...Santiago’s parents wanted him to be a priest but he says that he wants to travel so his father gives three Spanish gold coins which he uses to buy a flock of sheep as in those days shepherds used to travel from place to place and he leaves home. On his journey the boy travels many places and meets different kinds of people, once he meets a merchant’s daughter when he goes for selling wool and talks to his daughter for long time as the merchant asks him to wait after selling wool the merchant asks him to return next year to sell wool and the boy waits 1 whole year to meet that girl and he has a weird dream in which he sees a small boy who plays with his sheep and after playing with sheep he tells to Santiago that there’s treasure in Egypt pyramids and when that small boy is about to show the place he wakes up. So the boy meets an old lady who asks 1/10th of the treasure as she tells more about the treasure. Then in the next village he meets King of Salem Melchizedek, the king tells Santiago about his destiny and what he wants to pursue and he asks 1/6th of his flock as charge and in turn he gives 2stones Urim and Thummim and tells the boy to ask the stones in case he has any questions and the stones will reply either Yes/No. so Santiago sells all his sheep...
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...The Pharos of Alexandria, the pyramids in Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Acropolis and the Parthenon in Greece, the Roman aqueducts, Via Appia and the Colosseum, Teotihuacán and the cities and pyramids of the Mayan, Inca and Aztec Empires, the Great Wall of China, the Brihadeeswarar Temple of Thanjavur and tombs of India, among many others, stand as a testament to the ingenuity and skill of the ancient civil and military engineers. The earliest civil engineer known by name is Imhotep.[3] As one of the officials of the Pharaoh, Djosèr, he probably designed and supervised the construction of the Pyramid of Djoser (the Step Pyramid) at Saqqara in Egypt around 2630-2611 BC.[6] Ancient Greece developed machines in both civilian and military domains. The Antikythera mechanism, the first known mechanical computer,[7][8] and the mechanical inventions of Archimedes are examples of early mechanical engineering. Some of Archimedes' inventions as well as the Antikythera mechanism required sophisticated knowledge of differential gearing or epicyclic gearing, two key principles in machine theory that helped design the gear trains of the Industrial Revolution, and are still widely used today in diverse fields such as robotics and automotive engineering.[9] Chinese, Greek and Roman armies employed complex military machines and inventions such as artillery which was developed by the Greeks around the 4th century B.C.,[10] the trireme, the ballista and the catapult. In the Middle...
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...history. The most elaborate and well known ancient buildings are the pyramids and the ziggurats of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Mesoamerica. The construction of these massive monuments began sometime during the fourth millennium BC and to this day many can still be seen. Although believed by most to serve a particular religious function, historians are still trying to discover the exact purpose of these breathtaking feats of architecture. However, through the vast studies of archaeology, enough information has been acquired to make some valid theories. The first civilization to construct a massive architectural project was the Egyptians with their construction of the pyramids. It is believed that the Egyptian civilization began around 5500 BC and then began to flourish as a result of new innovations in agriculture and the abundance of natural resources around the Nile. Over time, Egyptians made great achievements in mathematics, writing, astronomy, medicine, engineering, and architecture. This played a huge part in the progression of Egypt into a powerful and influential civilization. In addition to these achievements, the significance of religion was another extremely important factor that allowed the Egyptian civilization to thrive. Egyptians practiced polytheism. In their religion, not only were there multiple gods, but their gods were sometimes in human form, animal form, and even a combination of the two. Egyptians also believed that their king, or Pharaoh, was sent from the gods...
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...Aside from the title the author also used several instruments to abdicate the boy’s personal legend. And the most important instrument that he used is the boy’s dream. The boy’s dream inside an abandoned church where there was an enormous sycamore that grew where the sacristy was. The boy’s revelation of his dream to the interpreter goes like this: “I had the same dream twice; I was in the field with my sheep, when a child appeared and began to play with the animals. I don’t like people to do that, because the sheep are afraid of strangers. But children always seem to be able to play without frightening them. The child continued to play with my sheep for quite a while and suddenly the child took my both hands and transported me to the Egyptian pyramids. Then the child said to me, ‘if you come here you will find a treasure’ and just as she was about to show me the exact location I woke up both times.” Well this is a hint of what the boy’s Legend is all about. One of the fundamentals of a good novel is its...
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...Art and Artist Works Margaret Draper AIU Online Abstract Artists are the most visual people of all. Some of the artists use the abstract from of painting to express a visual language of form, color, and live to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from the visual references in the world. Some will produce their paintings in the museum so people can look at them as a gallery. I will provide you with two from of art from the Louvre Museum, I will compare and contrast both of them. Art and Artists Work From the Lourve Musuem is the Barberini Ivory leaf from an imperial diptych dating from Late Antiquity. It represents the emperor as triumphant victor. It is attributed to an imperial workshop in Constantine. On the back, lists names of the Franklish royal families. It was made up of five rectangular plaques. The plaques are fitted together by tongue and groove joints, around a larger central plaque. It measures 34.2 cm (13in) high b 26.8 cm (11) wide overall, with the central plaque 19 cm(7in) high by 12.5 cm(5) wide b 2.5 cm deep. It shares many features of their decorative schemes. The emperor is accompanied in the main panel by a conquerd barbarian in trousers to the left, representing territory conquered, who holds his foot in thanks, and an angel or victory, crowning the emperor. Above, Christ with a fashionable curl-hair style, flanked by angels. While the emperor represent him on earth. It was acquired by the Lourve in 1899. It was...
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...three stops to three different time-periods exploring art from three civilizations. The first will be the Mesopotamian civilization, the second the Egyptian civilization, and the third and final destination the Roman civilization. Prehistoric/Mesopotamian Civilization Well it is time to take a seat, strap on my seatbelt, and set the dials for my first stop the Mesopotamian civilization and on this journey, my destination in this civilization will be the Ziggurat of king Urnammu (Nanna), and it is an architectural piece of art. Hey if you get a little nauseas, there is a barf bag in the seat pocket, for the first timers, off we go. The Great Ziggurat of Ur is an ancient Sumerian ziggurat in Dhi Qar Province, Iraq. The Sumerian King Urnammu (Nanna) and his son Shulgi built the ziggurat in approximately the 21st century BC during the Third Dynasty of Ur, in dedication to the moon God Nanna. They were believed to be dwelling places for the gods and each city had its own patron God. Only priests were permitted on the ziggurat or in the rooms at its base, and it was their responsibility to care for the gods and attend to their needs. The priests were very powerful members of Sumerian society. Ziggurats usually found in the center of villages. This structure-constructed in ca. 2500-2050 BCE of sunbaked mud brick. The massive step pyramid measures 210 feet (64m) in length, 150 feet (46m) in width and more than 100 feet (30m) in height. As I walk through the halls of this temple, I...
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