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Monday, October 19, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
ROKOK TERMAHAL DI DUNIA

Ternyata Lucky Strike pernah mengeluarkan 1 bungkus rokok yang diklaim sebagai rokok paling mahal sedunia pada tahun 2006 silam, rokoknya sih standar memakai tembakau seperti rokok lainnya.
Ternyata yang membuat rokok ini sangat mahal adalah bungkus rokok yang dilapisi emas putih 18 karat dan ditambah dengan sebuah intan dan satu buah batu rubi.
Rokok dan bungkusnya ini hanya diproduksi satu buah saja di seluruh dunia ! Tujuan utama pembuatan bungkus rokok yang dibandrol $100.000 ini bukan untuk mencari profit, tetapi lebih difungsikan untuk menggenjot penjualan Lucky Strike.
merokok dapat menyebabkan kanker, serangan jantung, impotensi, dan gangguan kehamilan dan janin.
Ternyata yang membuat rokok ini sangat mahal adalah bungkus rokok yang dilapisi emas putih 18 karat dan ditambah dengan sebuah intan dan satu buah batu rubi.
Rokok dan bungkusnya ini hanya diproduksi satu buah saja di seluruh dunia ! Tujuan utama pembuatan bungkus rokok yang dibandrol $100.000 ini bukan untuk mencari profit, tetapi lebih difungsikan untuk menggenjot penjualan Lucky Strike.
merokok dapat menyebabkan kanker, serangan jantung, impotensi, dan gangguan kehamilan dan janin.
Sumber:http://15meh.blogspot.com/2009/10/rokok-termahal-di-dunia.html
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
LUKISAN TERTUA DI DUNIA
Chauvet Cave atau Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave adalah nama sebuah gua yang terletak di Prancis bagian selatan. Di gua tersebut terdapat beberapa lukisan yang, sejauh ini, di klaim sebagai lukisan tertua di dunia, di perkirakan berumur lebih dari 32.000 tahun. Hal ini membuktikan bahwa pada saat itu (zaman es) manusia sudah mengenal sebuah bentuk seni walaupun masih begitu sederhana.
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Sumber:http://nemoto911.blogspot.com/2009/10/inilah-lukisan-pertama-di-dunia.html
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
LIFT TERCANGGIH DI DUNIA
Zhangjiajie, China : The Bailong Elevator, lift ini merupakan lift dengan exterior terluas di dunia, dengan ketinggian mencapai 1,000 kaki lift ini terbuat dari kaca untuk memudahkan penumpangnya melihat pemandangan dari ketinggian. Satu-satu nya yang menjadi masalah adalah, dampak lift ini pada lingkungan disekitarnya pada masa depan.
Sumber:http://nemoto911.blogspot.com/2009/10/lift-tercanggih-di-dunia-ada-di-china.html
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
DITEMUKAN BERLIAN SEHARGA Rp 190 M!
Gambar : Batu berlian yang memiliki berat lebih dari 100 gram ini harganya ditaksir mencapai 20 juta dollar AS.
Perusahaan tambang Petra Diamonds menemukan sebuah batu berlian putih yang tergolong salah satu yang terbesar dan berkualitas tinggi di dunia di sebuah tambang di Afrika Selatan pada 24 September lalu.
Berlian 507 karat, yang harganya ditaksir mencapai 20 juta dollar AS atau setara dengan Rp 190 miliar itu ditemukan bersama tiga berlian berukuran besar lainnya, masing-masing 168 karat, 58 karat, dan 53 karat. Sebuah berlian 480 karat senilai 18 juta dollar AS juga ditemukan di lokasi itu akhir tahun lalu.
Batu-batu itu ditemukan di tambang terkenal, Cullinan. Di Cullinan pulalah pernah ditemukan berlian terbesar dalam sejarah, lebih dari 100 tahun lalu. Batu berlian yang baru ditemukan itu kini tengah dianalisis para ahli berlian untuk menentukan nilai yang sesungguhnya.
"Tambang Cullinan kembali memberikan kepada dunia, berlian yang keindahannya sangat spektakuler dan penting," kata CEO Petra Johan Dippenaar. "Indikasi awal, berlian ini punya warna dan kejernihan yang sangat istimewa."
Pihak Petra mengatakan, berlian baru itu merupakan salah satu dari 20 batu berlian kualitas bagus dan terbesar yang pernah ditemukan di dunia. Berlian terbesar yang pernah ditemukan, dinamakan Cullinan, seberat 3.106 karat. Berlian itu kemudian dibagi sembilan, dan bagian terbanyak dari pecahan itu berada di British Crown Jewels, Inggris.
Perusahaan tambang Petra Diamonds menemukan sebuah batu berlian putih yang tergolong salah satu yang terbesar dan berkualitas tinggi di dunia di sebuah tambang di Afrika Selatan pada 24 September lalu.
Berlian 507 karat, yang harganya ditaksir mencapai 20 juta dollar AS atau setara dengan Rp 190 miliar itu ditemukan bersama tiga berlian berukuran besar lainnya, masing-masing 168 karat, 58 karat, dan 53 karat. Sebuah berlian 480 karat senilai 18 juta dollar AS juga ditemukan di lokasi itu akhir tahun lalu.
Batu-batu itu ditemukan di tambang terkenal, Cullinan. Di Cullinan pulalah pernah ditemukan berlian terbesar dalam sejarah, lebih dari 100 tahun lalu. Batu berlian yang baru ditemukan itu kini tengah dianalisis para ahli berlian untuk menentukan nilai yang sesungguhnya.
"Tambang Cullinan kembali memberikan kepada dunia, berlian yang keindahannya sangat spektakuler dan penting," kata CEO Petra Johan Dippenaar. "Indikasi awal, berlian ini punya warna dan kejernihan yang sangat istimewa."
Pihak Petra mengatakan, berlian baru itu merupakan salah satu dari 20 batu berlian kualitas bagus dan terbesar yang pernah ditemukan di dunia. Berlian terbesar yang pernah ditemukan, dinamakan Cullinan, seberat 3.106 karat. Berlian itu kemudian dibagi sembilan, dan bagian terbanyak dari pecahan itu berada di British Crown Jewels, Inggris.
Sumber:http://spirit-zone.blogspot.com/2009/09/ditemukan-berlian-baru-senilai-rp-190.html
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
12 KARAKTER UNIK DORAEMON
Doraemon adalah sebuah nama karakter robot kucing dalam komik manga dan animasi berseri asal Jepang yang diciptakan oleh Fujiko F. Fujio atau di kenal dengan nama Hiroshi Fujimoto.
Seri pertama Doraemon di luncurkan pada tahun 1069 yang di publikasikan oleh 6 perusahaan percetakan di Jepang secara simultan.
Cerita Doraemon keseluruhannya mencapai 1.344 cerita dengan hak publikasi di pegang oleh Shogakukan di bawah lisensi dari Tentomushi. Semua seri Doraemon tersimpan di sebuah perpustaakan Takaoka Central Library di Toyama kota tempat lahir Fujio.
Berikut beberapa karakter unik doraemon yang menjelma menjadi karakter lain seperti SpongeBob, Doraemon Mario, Doraemon Street Fighter, Doraemon Dragonball, Doraemon Mobile Suit Gundam RX, Doraemon Evangelion, Doraemon Harry Potter, Doraemon Macross, Doraemon Pokemon, Doraemon Naruto, Doraemon Star Wars, Doraemon Apple Ipod.
Seri pertama Doraemon di luncurkan pada tahun 1069 yang di publikasikan oleh 6 perusahaan percetakan di Jepang secara simultan.
Cerita Doraemon keseluruhannya mencapai 1.344 cerita dengan hak publikasi di pegang oleh Shogakukan di bawah lisensi dari Tentomushi. Semua seri Doraemon tersimpan di sebuah perpustaakan Takaoka Central Library di Toyama kota tempat lahir Fujio.
Berikut beberapa karakter unik doraemon yang menjelma menjadi karakter lain seperti SpongeBob, Doraemon Mario, Doraemon Street Fighter, Doraemon Dragonball, Doraemon Mobile Suit Gundam RX, Doraemon Evangelion, Doraemon Harry Potter, Doraemon Macross, Doraemon Pokemon, Doraemon Naruto, Doraemon Star Wars, Doraemon Apple Ipod.
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Sumber:http://15meh.blogspot.com/2009/09/12-karakter-unik-doraemon.html
Monday, September 28, 2009
BLACKBERRY TERMAHAL RP 2,3 M!

Gambar tersebut merupakan gambar pertama dari smartphone BlackBerry paling mahal di dunia. Setidaknya menurut versi pembuatnya, Alexander Amosu, desainer kenamaan asal Inggris.
Perusahaan Amosu, Alexander Amosu Ltd., merupakan perusahaan yang dikenal sebagai pembuat berbagai macam gadget dan perangkat kelas atas. Selain itu ia dikenal juga sebagai pembuat produk dengan harga yang kelewat mahal. Contohnya adalah setelan baju yang diumumkan baru-baru ini seharga 112 ribu dolar AS, yang diklaim sebagai pakaian paling mahal di dunia.
Meski belum ada konfirmasi bahwa Curve 8900 ini merupakan BlackBerry termahal di dunia, tetapi dengan harga sebesar 240 ribu dolar AS tampaknya membuat produk besutan Amosu tersebut menjadi kandidat BlackBerry paling mahal.
Amosu menghabiskan sekitar 350 jam untuk membuat BlackBerry Curve versi khusus ini dengan emas kuning 18 karat dan bertahtakan 4.459 berlian (dengan berat total 28.43 karat).
Layaknya produk premium pada umumnya, Curve edisi khusus ini akan tersedia dalam jumlah yang terbatas. Menariknya, hanya akan ada 3 buah yang akan dijual. Salah satunya sudah lebih dulu dibeli oleh pembeli misterius asal Timur Tengah.
Dengan harga 2,3 miliar tersebut, pembeli bisa melakukan personalisasi dengan memajang nama atau logo perusahaan dan juga layanan purna jual yang berlaku secara global eksklusif.
Perusahaan Amosu, Alexander Amosu Ltd., merupakan perusahaan yang dikenal sebagai pembuat berbagai macam gadget dan perangkat kelas atas. Selain itu ia dikenal juga sebagai pembuat produk dengan harga yang kelewat mahal. Contohnya adalah setelan baju yang diumumkan baru-baru ini seharga 112 ribu dolar AS, yang diklaim sebagai pakaian paling mahal di dunia.
Meski belum ada konfirmasi bahwa Curve 8900 ini merupakan BlackBerry termahal di dunia, tetapi dengan harga sebesar 240 ribu dolar AS tampaknya membuat produk besutan Amosu tersebut menjadi kandidat BlackBerry paling mahal.
Amosu menghabiskan sekitar 350 jam untuk membuat BlackBerry Curve versi khusus ini dengan emas kuning 18 karat dan bertahtakan 4.459 berlian (dengan berat total 28.43 karat).
Layaknya produk premium pada umumnya, Curve edisi khusus ini akan tersedia dalam jumlah yang terbatas. Menariknya, hanya akan ada 3 buah yang akan dijual. Salah satunya sudah lebih dulu dibeli oleh pembeli misterius asal Timur Tengah.
Dengan harga 2,3 miliar tersebut, pembeli bisa melakukan personalisasi dengan memajang nama atau logo perusahaan dan juga layanan purna jual yang berlaku secara global eksklusif.
Sumber:http://15meh.blogspot.com/2009/09/blackberry-termahal-di-dunia-seharga-rp.html
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
PRINTER HEMAT TANPA TINTA DAN LISTRIK!

Jika biasanya hardware printer menggunakan arus listrik dan juga tinta, namun di masa depan mungkin tidak akan ditemui printer seperti itu lagi. Dalam kompetisi desain Greener Gadget, printer RITI merupakan printer eco-friendly yang akan hit market printer computer dengan segera.
Printer RITI menggunakan ampas kopi atau teh untuk membuat printout computer. Untuk menggunakan printer RITI tersebut, masukkan selembar kertas, tempatkan ampas kopi atau teh ke dalam casing tinta di bagian atas printer. Lalu gerakkan casing tinta ke kiri dan kanan untuk mencetak gambar. Semuanya dilakukan tanpa menggunakan listrik, menurut laporan dari Greener Gadget.
Oleh karena printer RITI hanya bekerja secara manual, maka printer tersebut tidak ideal untuk project besar, dan hanya dapat mencetak hitam dan putih. Namun, secara keseluruhan printer RITI tersebut lebih hemat biaya pembelian tinta dan penggunaan listrik.
Sumber:http://15meh.blogspot.com/2009/08/printer-yang-bisa-mencetak-tanpa-tinta.html
Printer RITI menggunakan ampas kopi atau teh untuk membuat printout computer. Untuk menggunakan printer RITI tersebut, masukkan selembar kertas, tempatkan ampas kopi atau teh ke dalam casing tinta di bagian atas printer. Lalu gerakkan casing tinta ke kiri dan kanan untuk mencetak gambar. Semuanya dilakukan tanpa menggunakan listrik, menurut laporan dari Greener Gadget.
Oleh karena printer RITI hanya bekerja secara manual, maka printer tersebut tidak ideal untuk project besar, dan hanya dapat mencetak hitam dan putih. Namun, secara keseluruhan printer RITI tersebut lebih hemat biaya pembelian tinta dan penggunaan listrik.
Sumber:http://15meh.blogspot.com/2009/08/printer-yang-bisa-mencetak-tanpa-tinta.html
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Sunday, August 3, 2008
10 Best Drunkers Photos After Drinking
Let's face it, we have all been really drunk and made some mistakes. This is part of being human. The good news is that a lot of times, when you act a fool, your friends are in a similar state of mind and probably weren't concerned with you being you. Unfortunately, the mass proliferation of digital camera ownership increases the chance that your douchery will be forever remembered. So while you and your buddies may not remember how stupid you acted, fake humping Marty at the club, or pissing your girlfriend (at the time)'s bed, the camera always will. It is time to start stepping up your drunk game so you won't end up like these poor fools below.
Have you been caught in one of these situations?

Ah, the classic tale of revenge. You have been a dickhole all night, starting fights, slapping girls asses and missing the toilet with your projectile vomit. Everyone hates you, and now is their chance to show it. It beings innocently with a dick drawing on the cheek, then a few strategically placed “I heart penis” notations. But when you wake up, your underwear have been cut off of your lifeless body and you look like a walking Pollock painting…it might be time to send out a mass text and check if you still have any friends.

Though your dance session seemed “so hot” last night, I can assure you that the photo documentation was not.
Girls: “Backing it up” was indeed a safe foreplay maneuver, but didn’t do much for your pride. You basically got dry humped doggy-style in public view.
Guys: When on the dance floor at a club, more times than not, you look like you are either a) attempting to sink your haunches into a lucky lady the way a hyper poodle does to his owners leg or b) holding on for dear life because you have no idea what she is doing with her hips. Also, resist the urge to “throw your hands in the air” when the cameras are out as your armpits are usually sweating like you just took four hits of Ecstasy.

You know what they say: If you can’t party with them, party AROUND them. This rogue clubber seems to find his way into the background of everyone else’s photos, making his presence known typically with a peace sign, a “peace out” sign, or the “rock on” horns. Who is this guy? What happened to his friends? Doesn’t he work the Carl’s Jr. drive-thru? No one really knows the answers to these questions. What we do know is that he is hell-bent on fucking up the photos of all patrons better looking and more popular than him.

You're a stud right? Got your sweet hair cut, and a casual button-down shirt that tells the ladies that you’re no slob...but also that you don't take life out of the office too seriously. Weekends = Party time. Oh Yeah! We're going out tonight boys and we're going to raise hell. You spend all night buying hot girls drinks but too no avail and start to get a bit loose yourself...thinking there's got to be a girl in this spot that's as hammered as you are.
Then you find her and start dirty dancing to Best of Summer Hits 2003 (you use a dance you learned while in Cabo during that year's Spring Break to woo her), and the next thing you know you are playing tonsil hockey in the middle of a crowded room and hands start a wandering. You’re having fun, you are in the prime of your life. No big deal right? Sure buddy. Until the picture of you motor-boating a stranger finds its way to the company mail server.

We all like to relax while on the pot, but for god’s sake, maintain consciousness. A more humiliating situation does not exist than being discovered by your friends, hunched over and comatose, with your pants around you ankles. No one can blame the photographer. Any way you look at it, the scenario is a banner moment that must be captured. Then again, it is tough to blame the victim either. You drank a lot of beer, so you are drunk…you want to sit. You also need a place to excrete the liquid waste from the beer. You walk into the bathroom and BAM! There is a place to sit WHILE excreting liquid waste. Who thought of this? Brilliant! And it is so comfort a…

The loss of control of basic bodily functions is something that should be kept off film at all costs. It can only mean one of two things. Either your body has most completely shut down due to your consumption of alcohol, or your foresight was so poor that you were unable to allocate proper time to find a restroom around the time your bladder reached max capacity. However, this girl seems to be an expert in damage control. Once the deed is done, your best strategy is to curl up in the fetal position to minimize your shame. On the up side of things, that cute flannel you are wearing is going to look great with your boyfriend’s mesh gym shorts from 7th grade.

This was not a funny charade. You were not just resting for a minute. You were out…all the way out. So much so that you became the party’s project. Congratulations! Your friends rallied around your conked-out corpse and gave you a proper burial. On the positive side, they have enough respect for you to not write all over your lifeless body. On the negative side, you still suck.

The fact that we humans were given the materials to produce alcohol and only two legs on which to balance is God’s ultimate cruel joke. The sidewalk might as well be a sheet of ice covered in baby oil; no man stands a chance. The important thing is that we are all in this together, and you have friends to pick you up when you fall, right after snapping a picture of your pathetic ass on the ground.

Everyone has been there. Or at least most have. The night is coming to a close. Your sure thing turned out to not be that sure of a thing, or you are newly singled and looking to 'mingle'. In the back of your mind you know that you have to get drunk enough to make out with any of these seahogs, they all look the same in the dark right? And in the morning, after a small bout of self-loathing...you can quietly sneak out of the room and have one of your friends (or a cab?) come pick you up from her house... The best part about it, is that you went to a bar where your friends are never at and partied with people you don't know. It's cool; no one will ever know. Right? Wrong. Your thoughtless debauchery has been immortalized in order to educate future generations on both the merits of contraceptives, and what alcohol can do to your motor skills as well as your standards.

What is it about alcohol that encourages everyone to switch teams? Kinsey…you got anything on this? Girls start making out with each other and boys start fake bf-ing as soon as the cameras come out. I am all for the dropping of inhibitions whilst under the influence, but the latent homoeroticism of these photos is not what you want to be sharing with your gym partner the next day over a Creatine shake. Maybe you can try to release just a bit of that sexual repression before you are 7 keg stands deep.
Have you been caught in one of these situations?

Ah, the classic tale of revenge. You have been a dickhole all night, starting fights, slapping girls asses and missing the toilet with your projectile vomit. Everyone hates you, and now is their chance to show it. It beings innocently with a dick drawing on the cheek, then a few strategically placed “I heart penis” notations. But when you wake up, your underwear have been cut off of your lifeless body and you look like a walking Pollock painting…it might be time to send out a mass text and check if you still have any friends.

Though your dance session seemed “so hot” last night, I can assure you that the photo documentation was not.
Girls: “Backing it up” was indeed a safe foreplay maneuver, but didn’t do much for your pride. You basically got dry humped doggy-style in public view.
Guys: When on the dance floor at a club, more times than not, you look like you are either a) attempting to sink your haunches into a lucky lady the way a hyper poodle does to his owners leg or b) holding on for dear life because you have no idea what she is doing with her hips. Also, resist the urge to “throw your hands in the air” when the cameras are out as your armpits are usually sweating like you just took four hits of Ecstasy.

You know what they say: If you can’t party with them, party AROUND them. This rogue clubber seems to find his way into the background of everyone else’s photos, making his presence known typically with a peace sign, a “peace out” sign, or the “rock on” horns. Who is this guy? What happened to his friends? Doesn’t he work the Carl’s Jr. drive-thru? No one really knows the answers to these questions. What we do know is that he is hell-bent on fucking up the photos of all patrons better looking and more popular than him.

You're a stud right? Got your sweet hair cut, and a casual button-down shirt that tells the ladies that you’re no slob...but also that you don't take life out of the office too seriously. Weekends = Party time. Oh Yeah! We're going out tonight boys and we're going to raise hell. You spend all night buying hot girls drinks but too no avail and start to get a bit loose yourself...thinking there's got to be a girl in this spot that's as hammered as you are.
Then you find her and start dirty dancing to Best of Summer Hits 2003 (you use a dance you learned while in Cabo during that year's Spring Break to woo her), and the next thing you know you are playing tonsil hockey in the middle of a crowded room and hands start a wandering. You’re having fun, you are in the prime of your life. No big deal right? Sure buddy. Until the picture of you motor-boating a stranger finds its way to the company mail server.

We all like to relax while on the pot, but for god’s sake, maintain consciousness. A more humiliating situation does not exist than being discovered by your friends, hunched over and comatose, with your pants around you ankles. No one can blame the photographer. Any way you look at it, the scenario is a banner moment that must be captured. Then again, it is tough to blame the victim either. You drank a lot of beer, so you are drunk…you want to sit. You also need a place to excrete the liquid waste from the beer. You walk into the bathroom and BAM! There is a place to sit WHILE excreting liquid waste. Who thought of this? Brilliant! And it is so comfort a…

The loss of control of basic bodily functions is something that should be kept off film at all costs. It can only mean one of two things. Either your body has most completely shut down due to your consumption of alcohol, or your foresight was so poor that you were unable to allocate proper time to find a restroom around the time your bladder reached max capacity. However, this girl seems to be an expert in damage control. Once the deed is done, your best strategy is to curl up in the fetal position to minimize your shame. On the up side of things, that cute flannel you are wearing is going to look great with your boyfriend’s mesh gym shorts from 7th grade.

This was not a funny charade. You were not just resting for a minute. You were out…all the way out. So much so that you became the party’s project. Congratulations! Your friends rallied around your conked-out corpse and gave you a proper burial. On the positive side, they have enough respect for you to not write all over your lifeless body. On the negative side, you still suck.

The fact that we humans were given the materials to produce alcohol and only two legs on which to balance is God’s ultimate cruel joke. The sidewalk might as well be a sheet of ice covered in baby oil; no man stands a chance. The important thing is that we are all in this together, and you have friends to pick you up when you fall, right after snapping a picture of your pathetic ass on the ground.

Everyone has been there. Or at least most have. The night is coming to a close. Your sure thing turned out to not be that sure of a thing, or you are newly singled and looking to 'mingle'. In the back of your mind you know that you have to get drunk enough to make out with any of these seahogs, they all look the same in the dark right? And in the morning, after a small bout of self-loathing...you can quietly sneak out of the room and have one of your friends (or a cab?) come pick you up from her house... The best part about it, is that you went to a bar where your friends are never at and partied with people you don't know. It's cool; no one will ever know. Right? Wrong. Your thoughtless debauchery has been immortalized in order to educate future generations on both the merits of contraceptives, and what alcohol can do to your motor skills as well as your standards.

What is it about alcohol that encourages everyone to switch teams? Kinsey…you got anything on this? Girls start making out with each other and boys start fake bf-ing as soon as the cameras come out. I am all for the dropping of inhibitions whilst under the influence, but the latent homoeroticism of these photos is not what you want to be sharing with your gym partner the next day over a Creatine shake. Maybe you can try to release just a bit of that sexual repression before you are 7 keg stands deep.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Mysteries Of World's Lost Cities
Machu Picchu, Peru

Although the archaeological discovery of Machu Picchu came nearly a hundred years ago, historians are still unsure of the function of this ancient Inca citadel.
The Inca had no system of writing and left no written records, and archaeologists have been left to piece together bits of evidence as to why Machu Picchu was built, what purpose it served, and why it was so quickly vacated.
Petra, Jordan

The breathtaking city of Petra was a vibrant trading hub that vanished from most maps in the seventh century A.D. It lay beneath a thousand years of dust and debris when, in 1812, a Swiss scholar disguised as a Bedouin trader identified the ruins as the ancient Nabataean capital.
Spread throughout a series of remote desert canyons in southern Jordan, Petra arose more than 2,000 years ago at the crossroads of key caravan trade routes between Arabia, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. The Nabataeans carved most of the sprawling city's buildings, including temples, tombs, and theaters, directly into the region's towering red sandstone cliffs. Here, a Bedouin walks his camel past Petra's most famous building, Al Khazneh, or the Treasury.
Mohenjo Daro, Pakistan

The Indus Valley civilization was entirely unknown until 1921, when excavations in what would become Pakistan revealed the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo Daro (shown here).
This mysterious culture emerged nearly 4,500 years ago and thrived for a thousand years, profiting from the highly fertile lands of the Indus River floodplain and trade with the civilizations of nearby Mesopotamia.
Palmyra, Syria

There is evidence that the ancient city of Palmyra, also known as Tadmor, was in existence as far back as the 19th century B.C. Its importance grew around 300 B.C. as trading caravans began using it as a way station between Mesopotamia and Persia. Palmyra's strategic location and prosperity attracted the interest of the Romans, who took control of the city in the first century A.D.
Palenque, Mexico

The earliest Maya began to settle the dense rain forests of southwestern Mexico and Guatemala some 3,000 years ago. For nearly 1,400 years, settlements arose throughout the region, with some, like Tikal and Palenque (shown here), expanding into large, vibrant city-states.
Ancient Troy

Myth, folklore, mystery, and intrigue surround the ancient city of Troy like no other ruin on Earth. Once thought to be purely imaginary, a prop in Homer's epic poem The Iliad, excavations in northwestern Turkey in 1871 eventually proved that the city indeed existed.
In 1871, German adventurer Heinrich Schliemann began digging at Hisarlik, Turkey, (shown here) in search of the fabled city. His roughshod excavation wrought havoc on the site, but revealed nine ancient cities, each built on top of the next and dating back some 5,000 years. At the time, most archaeologists were skeptical that Troy was among the ruins, but evidence since the discovery suggests the Trojan capital indeed.

Although the archaeological discovery of Machu Picchu came nearly a hundred years ago, historians are still unsure of the function of this ancient Inca citadel.
The Inca had no system of writing and left no written records, and archaeologists have been left to piece together bits of evidence as to why Machu Picchu was built, what purpose it served, and why it was so quickly vacated.
Petra, Jordan

The breathtaking city of Petra was a vibrant trading hub that vanished from most maps in the seventh century A.D. It lay beneath a thousand years of dust and debris when, in 1812, a Swiss scholar disguised as a Bedouin trader identified the ruins as the ancient Nabataean capital.
Spread throughout a series of remote desert canyons in southern Jordan, Petra arose more than 2,000 years ago at the crossroads of key caravan trade routes between Arabia, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. The Nabataeans carved most of the sprawling city's buildings, including temples, tombs, and theaters, directly into the region's towering red sandstone cliffs. Here, a Bedouin walks his camel past Petra's most famous building, Al Khazneh, or the Treasury.
Mohenjo Daro, Pakistan

The Indus Valley civilization was entirely unknown until 1921, when excavations in what would become Pakistan revealed the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo Daro (shown here).
This mysterious culture emerged nearly 4,500 years ago and thrived for a thousand years, profiting from the highly fertile lands of the Indus River floodplain and trade with the civilizations of nearby Mesopotamia.
Palmyra, Syria

There is evidence that the ancient city of Palmyra, also known as Tadmor, was in existence as far back as the 19th century B.C. Its importance grew around 300 B.C. as trading caravans began using it as a way station between Mesopotamia and Persia. Palmyra's strategic location and prosperity attracted the interest of the Romans, who took control of the city in the first century A.D.
Palenque, Mexico

The earliest Maya began to settle the dense rain forests of southwestern Mexico and Guatemala some 3,000 years ago. For nearly 1,400 years, settlements arose throughout the region, with some, like Tikal and Palenque (shown here), expanding into large, vibrant city-states.
Ancient Troy

Myth, folklore, mystery, and intrigue surround the ancient city of Troy like no other ruin on Earth. Once thought to be purely imaginary, a prop in Homer's epic poem The Iliad, excavations in northwestern Turkey in 1871 eventually proved that the city indeed existed.
In 1871, German adventurer Heinrich Schliemann began digging at Hisarlik, Turkey, (shown here) in search of the fabled city. His roughshod excavation wrought havoc on the site, but revealed nine ancient cities, each built on top of the next and dating back some 5,000 years. At the time, most archaeologists were skeptical that Troy was among the ruins, but evidence since the discovery suggests the Trojan capital indeed.
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