Amazing Man-Made Places of the World
Location:
Mexico, Yuacatan city,
Zona
Arqueologica de Chichen Itza
History: It is one of the largest Maya Temple
with the bloody story.
Chichen Itza
was made between 750 and 900 AD.
It was made by Maya King, to present the
symbol of their god. Chichen Itza
wasmade in a triangle shape like Pyramid.
And in the center of the temple, It
has the big ladder to the sacrifice bar.
In
the legend, to pray the god in Chichen Itza.
They have to sacrifice the young women by
throwing her from the top of the
Temple.
Name: Machu
Pichu
Location: Cusco Region of Peru, on a
mountain ridge above the Urubamba
Valley
History: It is the most
famous of the Inca culture. Machu Pichu
was built around 1450 BC from the period of Dachacute Inca Yupanqui. It
was
made by dry stone walls in Inca style.
Machu
Pichu was unknown to the world for 100 years,
since Spain
won the war and killed all of Inca citizen until Hiram Bingham,
an academic, explorer, treasure hunter from United State
found it in 1911.
Name: Petra
Location: Jordan
History: Petra is
the symbol of Jordan
with the most tourist visited.
In Petra , evidences suggest that settlement had
begun in the eighteenth
dynasty of Egypst (1550-1292 BC).
Location: Khufu Horizon
History : The Great Pyramid was built as the tomb of the Phroh
Khufu ,the king of ancient Egypt . The Great Pyramid is the
oldest and tallest of three pyramids in Egypt . And it was the
tallest man made building in the world for over 3800 years with
146.5 metres tall and 230.4 metres of base.
The Great Pyramid completing the building in 20 year. It
mean that they have to involve 800 tones of stone every day and moving more than 12 blocks of stone to pyramid per hour with
.