Monuments' Dark Secrets Exposed

ISBN-13: 9783565151448 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str.

David Patterson

Opis

Crack open the gritty backstories of world-famous landmarks, revealing betrayals and bloodshed beneath their grandeur. The Eiffel Tower rose from World's Fair mockery and worker suicides, Statue of Liberty hid Egyptian slave origins before French gifting, and Taj Mahal masked Shah Jahan's harem murders for his beloved's tomb. Unravel Mount Rushmore's Native graves desecrated for presidential faces, Lincoln Memorial's Klan rally site, and Great Pyramid's 100,000 forced laborers-not slaves as myth claims.Each chapter dissects one monument: construction horrors like Christ the Redeemer's lightning strikes killing builders, political ploys behind Berlin Wall's "peace" facade, and Easter Island statues' eco-collapse trigger. Loaded with blueprints, eyewitness accounts, forensic digs, and legacy twists. Spanning ancient wonders to modern symbols across continents, this expose shatters tourist tales for the raw human drama that forged stone giants. Essential for history fans digging deeper.

Eiffel Tower builders endured 1 death per week in 1889 amid Paris mockery-now world's top selfie spot hides their forgotten sacrifice.