National Geographic History - 01 e 02.2022
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 59 BRIDGEMAN/ACI FALL OF A KING At the front of a Spartan phalanx, Leonidas is finally slain by the ...
LOOK AND LEARN/BRIDGEMAN/ACI SPARTANS AT THE BATTLE OF PLATAEA. ILLUSTRATION BY EDWARD OLLIER FOR CASSELL’S ILLUSTRATED UNIVERSA ...
ARISTODEMUS IS DISOWNED BY HIS COMPATRIOTS ON HIS RETURN HOME FROM THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE. DRAWING BY FÉLIX AUVRAY, 19TH CENT ...
TREASURES OF THE WARI EDITORS OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Between a.d. 700 and 1000, the Wari ruled the coastal highlands of modern-d ...
MAIN IMAGE: NEWSCOM/ALAMY/ACI RARE FINDS At El Castillo de Huarmey, Peru, a team of Peruvian and Polish archaeologists excavated ...
M ore than a thousand years ago in what is now Peru, the site of El Castillo de Huarmey was among the land’s most sacred places; ...
circa 800 Four elite women are interred at El Castillo de Huarmey. Their tomb will remain intact for a thousand years. circa 900 ...
entire southern end of the site. Once painted crimson, the sprawling complex seemed to be a Wari temple dedicated to ancestor wo ...
MARK GREEN/ALAMY EXPANSION OF AN EMPIRE Pikillaqta was one of the largest and most impressive settlements in the Wari empire. Ex ...
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BERT DE RUITER/ALAMY/AGE FOTOSTOCK BIRTHPLACE OF THE WARI The rugged mountains and valleys of the Ayacucho region, located some ...
The Tomb The intact chamber uncovered in 2013 lay along the western slopes of the necropolis. Wari builders had carved out a sub ...
WOVEN TREASURES Highly prized by the Wari people, brightly colored textiles were among the most valuable artifacts found in the ...
Social rank appears to have mattered as much in death as it did in life. Attendants placed the highest ranked women in three pri ...
OSCAR NILSSON is well-known among archaeologists for his lifelike facial reconstructions of peoples from the distant past. Five ...
BURIAL OF A QUEEN Surrounded in splendor, the mummy bundle of an elite noblewoman gave great insight into the funerary tradition ...
11 TOOLS AND SPOOLS Perhaps the most personal and valuable objects in the tomb were sets of weaving tools and spools of thread f ...
MONUMENT TO LOVE TAJ MAHAL EVA FERNÁNDEZ DEL CAMPO Early in the 17th century, the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan had a magnificent ma ...
COLOR AND LIGHT The marble of the Taj Mahal changes color as the light falling on it brightens and fades throughout the day. In ...
T he Taj Mahal is not only the most iconic symbol of India’s Mughal em- perors but one of the best-known works of art and archit ...
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