Julia Kulicka

Sphinx is located in Giza together with "Pyramids Team". In 1817 research excavations lead to its partial discovery. Complete discovery was made in 1925. Sphinx was made about 5 thousand years ago. It is a mythical creature - 21 meters high and 74 meters long . The name "Sphinx" means "vivid picture". The statue has got a human head and a body of a lion.   A legend says that it resembles Pharaoh Chefren's face. Sphinx’s is famous for not having its nose. It is believed that it was shot down during the Napoleonic expeditions to Egypt. The huge statue, which constitutes a symbol of puzzle and mystery, had to keep on the cemetery in Giza or, as the gossips says, had to guard three Pyramids behind it.  In 1400 B.C. Pharaoh Totones IV was trying to dig Sphinx out from the sand. The whole statue is not proportional and has got a lot of time passing and hydric erosion signs. Inside Sphinx are three tunnels, two of th...

The Great Pyramid of Giza , also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops , is the oldest and the largest of the three pyramids in the Giza pyramid complex. It was built in XXVI  B.C. The Cheops pyramid served as a tomb for the Chufu pharaoh's dynasty.  According to egyptologists, it was under construction for about 10 or 20 years and consists of  2.5 mln stone blocks. The story says that for 4 thousand years nobody came in there because. Egyptians were afraid the curse. The first men who entered the pyramid was Abd Allah al-Ma'mun. When the city lying in the pyramid area was destroyed,  some blocks from the Pharaoh’s Tomb were  used for its repair, therefore only 138 meters out of its original height of 146,6 meters were left . In the area of the Pyramid of Cheops there are two smaller pyramids: Chefren and Mykerinos .  All of these pyramids constitute the most famous "Pyramids Team" and are included in the Seven Wonders of ...

Machu Picchu was discovered by Hiram Bingham July 24th in 1911. That's abandoned town was found between mountains and jungle in  Peru. At first time he thought it was the last capital city of Inca - Vilcabamba.                                                                                                     What means Machu Picchu ?     In Quechua language means : old peak and is the reference to the top Huayana Picchu - young peak. Discovered in 1911 city has surfaces 5km2 and is located in the Andes in the altitude from 2090 to 2400 meters  above sea level. Old peak surround Urubamba River and Huayana Picchu what made the city was very difficult to access for Spanish Colonist.   Machu Pic...