Amazing Man-Made Places of the World

Name:     Chichen Itza

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.

Petra has been a UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE in 1985. 

                                        In Petra, evidences suggest that settlement had

 begun  in the eighteenth dynasty of Egypst (1550-1292 BC).

Location:  Khufu Horizon

                      29°58′45.03″N 31°08′03.69″E

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

25-80 tonnes each block of stone.

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