Toronto Reference Library Blog

   
The National Geographic Magazine website is very impressive. Not only does it feature the current issue, as well as all issues going back to December 2006, but it incorporates the photographs so central to this publication. Each article is accompanied by a photo gallery. April's feature article examines new archaeological discoveries at Machu Picchu, the fifteenth-century Inca ruins, believed to have been a royal estate. The photographs of gold artifacts are particularly moving, as they are among the very few gold or silver Inca pieces that were not melted down by the Spanish. This issue also includes the original 1913 article by Professor Hiram Bingham describing his "discovery" of Machu Picchu as well as photos from his expedition. There's lots more at National Geographic online including interactive maps, videos, photographs, and travel information. Today the site features an article first published in September 1896 about a tsunami that devastated Japan, killing 26 975 people. There is also extensive coverage of the 2011 tsunami. 

Use your library card from home to read full-text articles from the National Geographic archives, as well as hundreds of other science journals. Start with the Toronto Public Library home page and select Find Your Way: Articles and Online Research. Select Online Magazine and Newspaper Search or go to Databases by Category and select Math, Science and Technology.Or come into the Toronto Reference Library to find out more about Machu Picchu and Hiram Bingham. The 2010 NOVA documentary Ghosts of Machu Picchu looks at recent archaeological excavations of parts of the site that have been preserved since the time of the Inca empire. Read Hiram Bingham's own account of his expedition in Lost City of the Incas: the story of Machu Picchu and its Builders or learn about how the Inca overcame the challenges of building on a mountain top in Machu Picchu: a Civil Engineering Marvel.

   
The National Geographic Magazine website is very impressive. Not only does it feature the current issue, as well as all issues going back to December 2006, but it incorporates the photographs so central to this publication. Each article is accompanied by a photo gallery. April's feature article examines new archaeological discoveries at Machu Picchu, the fifteenth-century Inca ruins, believed to have been a royal estate. The photographs of gold artifacts are particularly moving, as they are among the very few gold or silver Inca pieces that were not melted down by the Spanish. This issue also includes the original 1913 article by Professor Hiram Bingham describing his "discovery" of Machu Picchu as well as photos from his expedition. There's lots more at National Geographic online including interactive maps, videos, photographs, and travel information. Today the site features an article first published in September 1896 about a tsunami that devastated Japan, killing 26 975 people. There is also extensive coverage of the 2011 tsunami. 

Use your library card from home to read full-text articles from the National Geographic archives, as well as hundreds of other science journals. Start with the Toronto Public Library home page and select Find Your Way: Articles and Online Research. Select Online Magazine and Newspaper Search or go to Databases by Category and select Math, Science and Technology.Or come into the Toronto Reference Library to find out more about Machu Picchu and Hiram Bingham. The 2010 NOVA documentary Ghosts of Machu Picchu looks at recent archaeological excavations of parts of the site that have been preserved since the time of the Inca empire. Read Hiram Bingham's own account of his expedition in Lost City of the Incas: the story of Machu Picchu and its Builders or learn about how the Inca overcame the challenges of building on a mountain top in Machu Picchu: a Civil Engineering Marvel.