Why Are There Temples to Egyptian Gods on the Map of the Grand Canyon?
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Around 1880 an army geologist looked at a butte in the Grand Canyon and named it Vishnu's Temple. His report never says why. Within thirty years the map was full of gods, and in 1909 a Phoenix newspaper announced that a lost city had been found in the canyon wall. This is the story of the names, the rock underneath them, and the people who were there first.
Based on real accounts. The pictures are reconstructions made with AI tools in the style of period photographs, and the narration is produced with AI tools. The wondering is our own.
Main sources: Clarence Dutton, Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District (1882). George Wharton James, In and Around the Grand Canyon (1900). Arizona Gazette, April 5, 1909. Don Lago, "Looks Like a Mulhatton Story" (Grand Canyon Historical Society, 2009). National Park Service, Grand Canyon.
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Why Are There Temples to Egyptian Gods on the Map of the Grand Canyon?
Oddment Cabinet
326 views
Around 1880 an army geologist looked at a butte in the Grand Canyon and named it Vishnu's Temple. His report never says why. Within thirty years the map was full of gods, and in 1909 a Phoenix newspaper announced that a lost city had been found in the canyon wall. This is the story of the names, the rock underneath them, and the people who were there first.
Based on real accounts. The pictures are reconstructions made with AI tools in the style of period photographs, and the narration is produced with AI tools. The wondering is our own.
Main sources: Clarence Dutton, Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District (1882). George Wharton James, In and Around the Grand Canyon (1900). Arizona Gazette, April 5, 1909. Don Lago, "Looks Like a Mulhatton Story" (Grand Canyon Historical Society, 2009). National Park Service, Grand Canyon.
Oddment Cabinet: real accounts, open questions.