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20 Interesting Historical Facts From Around The World
Published by Mr Ghaz in Trivia
June 13th, 2010
The Sistine Chapel is the private chapel of the Pope and is situated in the Vatican Rome. It was originally built in 1473 for Pope Sixtus IV and is famous for the wonderful paintings on the walls and ceiling. Perhaps the most famous of all paintings, Creation by Michelangelo, is painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The Last Judgement, also by Michelangelo, can be founded behind the altar. The Sistine Chapel also has many other great works of art together with tapestries and mosaics.
20 Interesting Historical Facts from around the World
By Mr Ghaz, February 12, 2011
20 Interesting Historical Facts from around the World
1. The Kings of Egypt were called pharaohs and worshipped as sun gods and called ‘a son of the sun god’. The Egyptians believed that their sun god rode across the sky each day. A pharaoh would have a tomb built in the shape of a pyramid. Every pyramid had four sides, one of which faced east. It was believed that when a pharaoh died he would wait for his father’s approach as the sun rose from the east and, at midday, when the sun fell on all four slopes of the pyramid, a staircase was formed for the pharaoh’s soul to climb.
2. Five thousand years ago Egyptian civilisation began. The territories along the River Nile shared the same language and culture and they united to form the first nation. Egyptian religion was concerned with life after death and dead bodies were preserved as mummies.
3. The Sphinx, which stands on the banks of the Nile in Egypt, is thought to have been built with the head in the image of King Chephren and with the body of a crouching lion. It guards the tomb of King Chephren and was worshipped as a god.
4. The Great Pyramid of Cheops was built between 4,000 and 3,000 BC. It took 100,000 men twenty years to construct using 2,300,000 huge, stone blocks which weighed an average of two tonnes each. Forty men were needed to manhandle each block into place. It is the tallest pyramid at 146 m (480 ft).
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