Essay Assignment: Exploring Ancient Mysteries
Choose one of the topics below and develop a three to four paragraph essay (of at least 250-500 words) which adequately address the topic you have chosen.
Topic Choices
• There have been many theories regarding how the pyramids at Giza were constructed. Most experts agree that they were constructed as burial monuments for pharaohs, but "how" these ancient people constructed monuments of such great size without modern machinery is a mystery which is still being debated.
• No one can say for certain what happened to the great urban Mayan civilization, but theories abound and include varied possible alternatives to explain the relatively abrupt and mysterious disappearance of the Mayan civilization.