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Over 50 different varieties of plants have been identified. Flowers and seeds were a vital ingredient of offerings which the Aztecs buried in the foundations of the Great Pyramid. So far over 135 diff
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The goddess's portrayed as the decapitate d figure, two great serpents representing streams of blood flow from her neck. For archaeologist Elizabeth Baquenano, a leading expert on Aztec sculpture, the
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As precious as jade is how the Aztecs describe their capital---Tenochtitlan. The Great Pyramid or the Templo Mayor as it's known honored the two most significant Gods for the Aztecs---- Tlaloc, the go
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To pacify the forces of nature, the Aztecs turn not just to the gods but to their own sophisticated technology. They had seen the eagle land on a saltwater lake, 32 miles long. To build a city here an
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In this remarkable story we see not only the idea of Teotihuacan as the primordial origin of the Aztec sun, we also see the participation of the gods and their self-sacrifice so that human life can th
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Modern Mexico City is one of the largest cities in the world. Once it was a wilderness area. A valley of saltwater lakes and swamps, surrounded by mountains and active volcanoes. At the beginning of t
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When the Spanish conquistador s first saw the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, it was so beautiful. They thought they were dreaming. They called it the Venice of the Americas. At the height of the Aztec
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bacchanal, ['bkənəl] n （行为放纵的）狂欢会，酒神节＝orgy 【源】Bacchus是古罗马的酒神巴克斯；Neptune是古罗马海神尼普顿。Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune [谚]酒神淹死的人比海神多＝美酒为害
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By extraordinary coincidence, the 500 conquistadors led by Hernan Cortes arrived during the exact year when an Aztec prophecy foretold the return of Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent God. Feathered
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Sculpting the landscape, the Aztecs created a beautiful ideal model, intended to bring rain to the real world. Water channel from the mountain through an aqueduct flowed around the hill, filling baths
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Victims were tether ed to the center and provided only with dummy weapons. Warriors fought them to the death. Both Aztecs and their enemies were sacrificed. For the Aztecs it was an honor. But sacrifi
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As a purification ceremony, frankincense or copal may have been burnt in these huge brazier s depicting Tlaloc, the rain god. Most telling of all, the scientists found traces of albumen indicating the
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September是九月 为什么Septwolves是七匹狼 而不是九匹狼? October是十月 为什么Octopus是八爪鱼(章鱼) 而不是十爪鱼? December是十二月 为什么decade是十年 而不是十二年? 这是因为，在古罗马历中，一年
英美文化
These were the patricians the word means something like 'city fathers' although in those days they weren't citizens as we know them, 这些人是patricians（贵族）这个词的意思大致相当于市议员但是你不可以把这个时代的市议员
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Just like the people of modern Istanbul, the Byzantines loved fresh bread and fresh vegetables. While the bread，at least the grain for it, they brought from their province of Egypt, the vegetables they grew themselves, in little plots beside their
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Southwest of Istanbul, three days sailing on an ancient slave ship, is the Isle of Marmara, its very name in stone. In the first centuries of Byzantium, slaves in their tens of thousands worked in these marble hills. How the Byzantines love marble! I
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Each man stands inside his own mysterious inner space, for each one of them was occupied. And from that space they look outwards, from the soul towards the heavens. As you might expect, if you should move around them, solid bulk of marble in the huma
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