Articles of Interest

National Geographic Magazine

June 2010 Caves of Faith TOPIC: Silk Road/China/Trade/Culture (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/06/dunhuang-caves/larmer-text)

More Information: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/06/dunhuang-caves/historical-photography

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/06/dunhuang-caves/caves-interactive

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/06/dunhuang-caves/law-photography

September 2010 King Tut's Family Secrets TOPIC: DNA testing/royal lineage (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/09/tut-dna/hawass-text)

More Information:

Photos (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/09/tut-dna/garrett-photography)

Interactive Family Tree (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/09/tut-dna/tut-family-tree)

Royal Incest Through History (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/09/tut-dna/dobbs-text)

September 2010 Sands of Time...Fraser Island TOPIC: Australian Aborigines (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/09/fraser-island/smith-text)

July 2010 TOPIC Mayan Culture Artifacts found in tombs (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/100721-maya-tomb-human-fingers-king-guatemala-science/) Follow the links in he article to read more.

January 2010 National Geographic Magazine: RESTLESS SPIRITS http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/01/chinese-afterlife/hessler-text. This article deals with religion and funerary practices

December 2010 Gaudi's Masterpiece - Sagrada Familia in Barcelona - Architecture

November 2010 Unburying the Aztec - Aztec Empire

January 2011 Cahokia - Early Civilization/Community in what is now the American Midwest

April 2011 Inca Empire - Story about the founding of the empire

June 2011 The Birth of Religion (Origins of civilization, Turkey, "Civilization is a product of the human mind")

July 2011 The Search for Cleopatra (Egypt)

Smithsonian Magazine:

June 2010 Article Great Expectations TOPIC: Harlem Renaissance/America (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/A-Year-of-Hope-for-Joplin-and-Johnson.html)

June 2010 Article Home Away From Rome TOPIC: Ancient Rome/Archaeology/Imperial Life (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Home-Away-From-Rome.html)

October 2010 Article A Viking Mystery TOPIC: Archaeology, Prehistory, Vikings (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/102999579.html)

April 2011 Article Shifting Sacred Ground TOPIC: Temple Mount

September 2011 Article What Ails the Taj Mahal? TOPIC: Creation of the Taj Majal and Environmental factors destroying it today

October 2011 Article Willen de Kooning Still Dazzles and What Became of the Taino? (people who greeted Columbus) PHOTOS

March 2012 Cave Art Debate

September 2012 Koolhaas Country TOPIC: Architect Rem Koolhaas

Additional Sources:

Mail Online August 2012 The incredible images that how a colour-blind person sees the world (and why it might explain Vincent Van Gogh's genius)

NPR: RE: Content Area 9 - Stolen Totem Pole Returns Home

Great Mosque Cordoba.pdf