The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World: The Great Monuments and How They Were Built
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Expands on the traditional "Seven Wonders" to examine an impressive number of ancient marvels from around the globe. How were the ancient wonders of the world built? How many people did it take to build the Great Wall of China or the Sphinx at Giza? The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World answers these and many more questions, examining antiquity's most spectacular feats of engineering and celebrating the achievements of the builders who worked without the aid of modern technology.
Expanding upon the theme of the traditional Seven Wonders, The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World incorporates marvels from around the globe, spanning the centuries from the first stone monuments of the fifth millennium BCE to the Great Temple of the Aztecs in the sixteenth century CE. Lesser-known monuments as well as famous sites are explored in detail, such as the giant stelae of Aksum and the mountain palace at Sigiriya.
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- Thames & Hudson
- 9780500778142
- 9780500297070
- ePub
- 1
- Chris Scarre
- English
- 2023-08-03
- 100
- 2
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Other titles of interest
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Memorials of Power
- The Seven Wonders
- 1 The Pyramids of Giza
- 2 The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
- 3 The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
- 4 The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
- 5 The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
- 6 The Colossus of Rhodes
- 7 The Pharos of Alexandria
- Tombs & Cemeteries
- 8 The Megalithic Tomb of Newgrange
- 9 The Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae
- 10 The Valley of the Kings: the Tomb of Seti I
- 11 The Etruscan Cemetery of Cerveteri
- 12 Mount Li: the Tomb of China’s First Emperor
- 13 The Nabataean Royal Tombs at Petra
- 14 The Moche Pyramids
- 15 The Tomb of Emperor Nintoku, Japan
- 16 The Tomb of Pakal, Palenque
- 17 The Temple-Mausoleum of Angkor Wat
- Temples & Shrines
- 18 Ġgantija & the Maltese Temples
- 19 Stonehenge
- 20 The Ziggurat of Ur
- Plates I
- 21 The Temples of Karnak
- 22 The Great Temple of Abu Simbel
- 23 The Cult Centre of Chavín de Huántar
- 24 The Parthenon at Athens
- 25 The Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan
- 26 The Great Stupa of Sanchi
- 27 The Buddhist Caves of Ajanta
- 28 The Pantheon at Rome
- 29 The Earthworks of Newark, Ohio
- 30 The Buddhist Monastery at Paharpur
- 31 The Buddhist Shrine of Borobudur
- 32 Monks Mound, Cahokia
- 33 The Mud Mosques of Timbuktu
- 34 The Great Temple of the Aztecs
- Palaces, Baths & Arenas
- 35 The Minoan Palace of Knossos
- 36 The Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh
- 37 The Palace of Persepolis
- 38 The Colosseum at Rome
- 39 Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli
- 40 The Baths of Caracalla, Rome
- 41 The Palace & Pleasure Gardens of Sigiriya
- 42 The Arch of Ctesiphon
- 43 The Royal Compounds of Chan Chan
- 44 Great Zimbabwe
- Fortifications
- 45 Mycenae & Tiryns
- 46 The Fortresses of Van
- 47 The Walls of Babylon
- 48 Maiden Castle
- 49 The Circuit Walls of Syracuse
- 50 The Great Wall of China
- 51 Masada
- 52 The Temple-Fortress of Sacsawaman
- Harbours, Hydraulics & Roads
- 53 The Great Bath of Mohenjo-daro
- 54 The Marib Dam of Southern Arabia
- 55 Chinese Canals
- Plates II
- 56 Roman Aqueducts
- 57 Roman Roads
- 58 The Harbour at Caesarea
- 59 The Chaco Road System, New Mexico
- 60 Inca Roads & Bridges
- Colossal Statues & Monoliths
- 61 The Grand Menhir Brisé, Brittany
- 62 The Great Sphinx at Giza
- 63 Egyptian Obelisks
- 64 The Colossi of Western Thebes
- 65 The Colossal Stone Heads of the Olmec
- 66 The Nazca Lines, Drawings in the Desert
- 67 La Turbie: the Trophy of the Alps
- 68 The Giant Stelae of Aksum
- 69 The Colossal Buddha of Bamiyan
- 70 The Rapa Nui Statues
- Contributors
- Further Reading
- Sources of Quotations
- Sources of Illustrations
- Maps
- Index
- Copyright