The Maya ruins of Tikal are deep into the rain forest of Guatemala. From air only one handful of temples and palaces summits by the treetops. The stone mason works weathered. Large places are covered with Moos and enormous artificial lakes are devoured of jungle. The only inhabitants are wild animals and birds. But before 1200 years, Tikal was one of the most important cities of the large and great Maya civilization, which extended today's southern Mexico, Belize and Guatemala in far parts. Tikal was the homeland of approximately 100,000 humans. Reetgedeckten yards and fields would have so far the eye extended...

In the sixth century v. Chr. from the kings of the first Persian realm based (the Achämeniden), is Persepolis is appropriate for 60 km northeast from Shiraz in Iran. The today's Persian names, Takht e Jamshid meant " Throne of the Jamshid" , a legendary Iranian king. However the old name of the city was Parsa or Pars ' Town center, thus the Greek name Persepolis...

The idea, a channel, that the Mediterranean with the Red Sea originates from old times. Connected contrary to the modern Canal the earlier Red Sea to the Nile, therefore the ships force along the river on their journey from Europe to India to sails. It was suggested that the first channel was dug during the reign of Thutmosis III, although concrete references, the Necho (sixth Jh. v. Chr.) Credits for the attempt. During the Persian invasion of Egypt king Darius I. let final the channel. Red sea Sea, consisted of two parts: The first linkage the gulf of Suez on the large bitter lake, and the second connection the lake to one of the addresses in the Nile delta. The channel remained in good condition during the ptolemäischen era, but purged thereafter. It again excavated during the rule of the Roman emperor Trajan, and later the Arab rulers Amr Ibn Al carrion. In the course of the years it went leaving again in decline, and was completely on the discovery of the commercial route around Africa...

The largest monument old Delhi is the Lal Quila, or the red away, the thick walls from red sandstone, those full for bursting with towers and bastions, which the moods the time resisted, and which nature. The Lal Quila rises over a broad dry ditch, in the northeast corner of the original city Shahjahanabad. The walls extend up to two kilometers, and vary at a value of 18 meters on the river side to 33 meters on the city side...

The hotel is to low coastal plain into the gulf of Mexico because of the eastern bank of the Rio Usumacinta Basin in the foothills of the Sierra de Chiapas Oriental on a height of somewhat less than 3000 m, sees Palenque on about 130 km. in the north. See map 1. The climate is warm (middle temperature of 26 C) and damp (average annual amount of precipitation 2156 mm) with small seasonal fluctuations and showers during the whole yearly. By dense forests by Mahagoni, Zeder and Sapodilla trees dominated surrounded, frequently in nebulas wrapped, are the ruins belong to the aesthetically impressing in Mesoamerika...

After the Mexican (Aztec) not able to appreciate a temple huitzilopochtli build on the island of Tenochtitlan they were established, were not. At the beginning, because the lack of stone, they built them with sticks and hay. Then in the times of the Chimalpopoca they had access to rock, but it was not into the reign from Tizoc that the temple acquired, the vision of the glory, huitzilopochtli colors, on the bases that Moctezuma protected. Finally the next large loudspeakers are Ahuitzotl, surfaces and the inagurates temple in the year 1487...