Later explorers reported massive piles of rubble at the base of the pyramids left over from the continuing collapse of the casing stones, which were subsequently cleared away during continuing excavations of the site.

From the 7th century it spread rapidly from the Arabian Peninsula to the rest of the world through the initial Muslim conquests, and subsequently with traders and explorers after the death of the Prophet Muhammad.

Some of the city's monuments are known today only from photographs taken by the early explorers ; even when the looted monuments are subsequently brought back into circulation, their uncertain provenance makes it very difficult for them to be placed in an appropriate context.

Scottish place names in other countries is a list of placenames in Scotland which have subsequently been applied to other parts of the world by Scottish emigrants or explorers, or contain distinctive Scottish surnames as an element.

On the return trip, however, the explorers discovered the stream and subsequently placed it on the map as a " new creek.

The Nonsuch continued to the southern portion of James Bay, where its explorers founded Fort Rupert at the mouth of the Rupert River.

By this stage the explorers had passed the southern boundary of the desert, and from then on Henry had one of his wishes fulfilled: the Portuguese had circumvented the Muslim land-based trade routes across the western Sahara Desert, and slaves and gold began arriving in Portugal.

The most famous of the explorers was David Livingstone, who explored southern Africa and traversed the continent from the Atlantic at Luanda to the Indian Ocean at Quelimane.

Dutch explorers, sailing around southern Africa, also engaged in discovery and trade ; Abel Janszoon Tasman discovered Tasmania and New Zealand in 1642.

They had not progressed to any country on the southern watershed through which the early explorers and prospectors travelled to the Hagan Range and Wabag.

When Spanish explorers arrived in the 1520s, they found a ring of Tocobaga villages around the northern half of Tampa Bay from modern-day Pinellas County to Tampa and Calusa villages along the southern portion of the bay in modern-day Manatee County.

Also in addition to these drums, the dhōlki is also used by many musicians-though this drum is believed to have descended from those brought to Sri Lanka from India-unlike the aforementioned instruments ; which are believed to have existed in Sri Lanka prior to the arrival of the first Indian explorers ( though this is difficult to verify due to the proximity of the two nations to one another-it is impossible to say, with any degree of certainty, that no cultural exchange occurred between the peoples of southern India and Sri Lanka prior to any particular date in history ).

In several initial missions commissioned by Afonso de Albuquerque of Portuguese Malacca, the Portuguese explorers Jorge Álvares and Rafael Perestrello landed in southern China and traded with the Chinese merchants of Tuen Mun and Guangzhou.

These earliest explorers were likely British and American fur-trappers and traders in the 1820s and 1830s, although it is possible that Spanish explorers reached the southern edge of the Shasta Cascade region before 1820.

In 1935 she travelled to the Hadhramaut, the hinterland of southern Arabia, where only a handful of Western explorers had previously ventured, never as far or as widely as she went.

The Strait of Juan de Fuca is in fact at around 48 ° N, as is the southern tip of the large island now called Vancouver Island, while the northern reach of the Gulf of California terminates much farther south, at about 31 ° N. It is possible that explorers and mapmakers in the 17th century could have confused the two ( if in fact they were aware of Fuca's voyage ), and in any case further exploration was inevitable.

When the French explorers and Coureur des bois came to the region in search of fur and other items of value to Europeans, the Grand River Valley was among the last areas of southern Ontario to be explored.

He is remembered in Russia as one if its greatest admirals and explorers, and multiple geographical features and locations in the Antarctic, named in honor of Bellingshausen, remind of his role in exploration of the southern polar region.

The river is named for Jedediah Smith, who in 1828 led a party of explorers from Utah overland to northern California and southern Oregon.

Olaus Magnus ' account is illustrated by one of his woodcuts ( seen above ), resembling the southern Greenland coast where Hvidserk is seen, and the explorers combating Eskimo s.

The first European explorers of the southern Appalachian Mountains were Spanish.

Portuguese explorers used the term generally to describe tribes they encountered in southern Africa, probably having misunderstood its etymology from Muslim traders along the coast.

Three of these timekeepers traveled with the explorers James Cook and Captain Furneaux during their second voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean in 1772-1775.

The car-or tank-like machines ( the explorers later recalled four or five types of them ) appear from the northern crater in a random order, travel along the highway to the southern one and, finally, disappear in the latter.

He is most famous for the many books he published about his travels, and for being one of the most notable explorers of southern Africa, mostly in present day Namibia.

They then attack in force, but the explorers manage to survive with only minor casualties by retreating inland to a defensive position a short distance from their camp.

Distraught Tinnerman alumni created a detailed proposal for a non-profit Tinnerman Foundation, to keep the camp operating as a canoe base for youthful explorers.

Construction for the Glenn Highway began at a camp on the Richardson Highway in the Copper River Valley named Glennallen after two U. S. Army explorers of the late 19th century: Capt.

The first visitors to present-day Hodgkins, explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, paddled down the Des Plaines River in 1673, passing through the area, making their camp in present-day Summit.

She joined the expedition in November 1804, after the explorers ( Lewis and Clark ) made winter camp at Fort Mandan in present-day North Dakota.

Because the areas being explored take many hours to reach, explorers now sometimes camp in the cave during expeditions of as long as four days.

On May 13, 1604, the French explorers Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts and Samuel de Champlain landed at Port Mouton and built a temporary camp at Bull Point.

* January 1 – Portuguese explorers, led by Pedro Álvares Cabral, sail into Guanabara Bay, Brazil, mistaking it for the mouth of a river, which they name Rio de Janeiro.

The Spanish explorers knew of Admiralty Inlet and the unexplored region to the south, but decided to sail north.

In the 16th century, its port gained great importance as one of the main ports from which Portuguese explorers set sail, due to the discoveries.

The Bunurong clans would have been aware of the Europeans, as people of the coast who watched the explorers ships sail past, then enter Port Phillip and Western Port.

Hurricane Carla damaged 70% of the marinas in the Galveston-Port Aransas area but fuel service is back to normal, and explorers can roam as far west as Port Isabel on the Mexican border.

From 1778 a display of objects from the South Seas brought back from the round-the-world voyages of Captain James Cook and the travels of other explorers fascinated visitors with a glimpse of previously unknown lands.

Some of Bright's innovative mazes had no " dead ends " – although some clearly had looping sections ( or " islands ") that would cause careless explorers to keep looping back again and again to pathways they had already travelled.

Terran explorers arrive in the latter part of the 20th century to discover that Mars is home to a decaying but still highly advanced culture that was creating technological marvels back when Earthlings were still living in caves.

The four explorers, with Seeker and Prill, use the floating police station as a vehicle to travel back to the explorers ' crashed ship.

In 1510 early Spanish explorers encountered the sunflower in the Americas and carried its seeds back to Europe.

Horses were brought back to North America by European explorers, beginning with the second voyage of Columbus in 1493.

Waterloo's history dates back to French explorers during the 17th century, who travelled through and settled in the region.

The earliest known entrance into the region known as Castle Valley by Europeans dates back to the Spanish explorers.

Hunger and cold forced them to turn back, as did many explorers who were defeated by the canyon's inaccessibility.

Because of the resistance offered to all European explorers at the time, especially by Senussis Ikhwan, Rohlfs only managed to come back with a few important findings which included an inaccurate first map of the Libyan Desert.

The earliest known use of muscle relaxant drugs dates back to the 16th century, when European explorers encountered natives of the Amazon Basin in South America using poison-tipped arrows that produced death by skeletal muscle paralysis.

Howitt was sent back to Cooper Creek to recover their bodies and the explorers were given a state funeral in Melbourne on Wednesday, 21 January 1863.

Hooker's son Joseph Dalton Hooker was one of the first plant explorers to use the new Wardian cases, when he shipped live plants back to England from New Zealand in 1841, during the pioneering voyage of HMS Erebus that circumnavigated Antarctica.

Tintin visits a hospital where all seven of the stricken explorers go through the same horror — they awaken from their coma, scream about figures attacking them, and slip back into their coma — at a precise time of day.

The explorers were picked up from the spot by a plane from Vostok base to Progress Base and taken back to Cape Town on the Akademik Fyodorov, a Russian polar research vessel.

The ardito concept can be traced back to 1914 when every regiment of the Royal Army was ordered to create a group of explorers trained to act behind enemy lines.

The human history of the west coast of North America is believed to stretch back to the arrival of the earliest people over the Bering Strait, or alternately along a now-submerged coastal plain, through the development of significant pre-Columbian cultures and population densities, to the arrival of the European explorers and colonizers.

The Martians are highly advanced, and initially peaceable ; they take some of the explorers back with them to visit Mars dominated by canals.

) If the explorers didn't get back before dawn they turned into hills and other natural features.

Much was learned in the expedition, but Indians forced the explorers back to Virginia.

Chayote was one of the many foods introduced to Europe by early explorers, who brought back a wide assortment of botanical samples.