Archeology

Archeology

As an introduction, the purpose of archaeology is to learn more about past societies and the development of the human race. Over 99% of the history of humanity has occurred within prehistoric cultures, which did not make use of writing, thereby not leaving written records about themselves that we can study today. Without such written sources, the only way to learn about prehistoric societies is using archaeology.

Archaeological excavation existed even when the field was still the domain of amateurs, and it remains the source of the majority of data recovered in most field projects. It can reveal several types of information usually not accessible to survey, such as stratigraphy, three-dimensional structure, and verifiably primary context.

In England had been different archeologist and they have been a lot of secret about past societies, that make us an idea that how human being have been in evolution through years.

Here we have some important archeologist and their discoveries:

·        In 1638 the English mathematician John Greaves, motivated by the testimonies traveler and connoisseur of the classic story about Egypt, visiting the pyramids and performed the first scientific measurements of it.

·        Richard W. Howard Wyse In 1837, British Army colonel and explorer, with John Perring, with the use of dynamite, is able to penetrate the structure of the third pyramid of Giza, the Pharaoh Menkaure discovering his burial chamber. With similar tactic has made ​​progress over the King's Chamber in the Pyramid of Cheops discovering hidden building five cameras that cushion the weight of the masonry and in them the only entries in the pyramid (graffiti) testifying about their builders.

·        In Egypt, in 1922, there is one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the century by Howard Carter, who discovered the intact tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun groundwater in the Valley of the Kings.

All of these discoveries were done by English archeologist putting their names in the history forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rr_0huHqUc this is a link where we can see the most important discoveries of all times.