Seven Wonders of the ancient
Refers to the seven wonders of the great buildings of classical antiquity and developed by different authors in guidebooks were scattered among the Greeks and Romans, especially in the first and second century BC and was the first to write a list of pre-Philo Byzantine in 225 BC. In his work "for the seven wonders of the world", from the other menus that Herodotus and the architect Callimachus writing and in the Alexandria National Museum
the first wonder is the pyramid
Egyptian King Khufu built the pyramid circa 2560 BC in order to have a cemetery to bury them. The Great Pyramid of the oldest structures in the original list of the Seven Wonders of the ancient next to it only wonder that still exist until now and more the effects of the world's most controversial and imagination and thought it was the tallest building of man-made on the planet for more than four thousand Sna.bny the Great Pyramid of 2.3 million stone weighing an average of 2.5 metric tons, including stones weigh 15 per metric ton. And built by 25 thousand workers, not including Abdul-one, and the choice of engineers for its location above the rock to remain in place for Ibd.lm feel Greeks are weak but in front of the ancient Egyptians Vbatalma are Section Greek only used civilizations is Greek and Abdul other gods (Egyptian): Other reason for this is that Ptolemaic and stood in front of the weak business Egyptians, particularly the pyramid of Cheops. This pyramid, which is still yet the secrets of the supernatural, and many believe the incarnation of mathematics, astronomy and beauty in it.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon - Iraq
Built a Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar those gardens in 600 BC for his wife Queen Omiyetaa which lacked greenery and gardens in her homeland Media .benit gardens in Babylon, Iraq, also known as Semiramis by prisoners who brought the King of the Levant at the time and made them work day and night and was surrounded by a moat of water on the banks of the Euphrates River. The gardens of outstanding 8 gates was Ofajmha Ishtar Gate and planted in the gardens of all types of trees, vegetables, fruits and flowers and was still productive throughout the year due to the presence of trees summer and winter, so it was very in the magnificence and beauty, making it the intervention of fun and joy to the human heart when viewed.
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus - Turkey
Built this temple marble Great Ahdaúa of the Greek goddess Artemis au, which is called Diana's mythology, Roman was the completion of its construction in 550 BC in Ephesus (currently close to the town of Selçuk in Turkey) was designed by the architect Kresfron, and his son Mitagins and contains 120 columns up one of them rising to 20 meters in addition to works of art and bronze statues of the Amazons (Legend of the people of women fighters) .qam man named Hirostratos burned the temple in 356 BC in an attempt to perpetuate his name, then build another similar to its foundations. Goths and then burned the Second Temple in 262 AD, Only a foundation and part of the second temple. The British Museum contains Mnhottin of the second temple.
Statue of Zeus at Olympia - Greece
Been building this huge statue of gold to the king of the Greek gods (Zeus) in honor of the original Olympic Games, which began in the town of Ancient Olympia. The famous Greek sculptor Phidias carved the statue in 432 BC and reached a height above the base of more than 13 meters, while the height of the base about 6 Omtar.tm-making body of ivory, while manufactured the cloak worn by the statue of Zeus in pure gold, while al-Qaeda was black marble, and is the only effect of the remaining parts of the statue
Maussollos shrine in Bourdom - Turkey
Built a shrine city Hlekarnassows - Bodrum Turkish Halaa- famous Between 370 and 350 BC, the king of the ancient Greek (Maussollos) is said to be the wife of King constitutionally elected Artemisa is a girl that shrine to commemorate their love. He was a shrine is a rectangular shape, height total of about 45 meters, consists of three parts. The bottom level of it is a huge hall of white marble, followed by the second level, where there are 36 columns, distributed to all parts of the building, carrying those columns capped pyramid-shaped runway, topped by a luxury wagon with four Jiad.ma distinguishes the mausoleum is Marvel reliefs, the motifs carved statues varying sizes on the columns, which are made by 4 artists from the Greeks, and to all corners of the shrine, which was the photographer tells stories of some of the legendary battles. Under the shrine Maussollos upright in place for a period of six centuries, did not shake the fall of the kingdom of Alexander the Great, however, Caria in 334 BC and pirate attacks in 62 BC. But what destroyed the building in the end was a frequent earthquakes that hit the region during the Middle Ages and which finally undermined the building stones in the fifteenth century AD. The increased destruction of the shrine use the stones are huge in building the castle and fort huge Templars Christians who continued to uproot more and more precious with each attack waged by the Ottoman army on them until nothing was left of the shrine, but some of the sculptures and statues, doors, and there are now in the British Museum in London
Giant Rhodes - Greece
In contrast to the Pyramids of Giza is a statue of Helios at Rhodes shorter life among the Seven Wonders of Alkadima.aktml the construction of the statue in 282 BC and took 12 Sna.qam built the ancient Greek sculptor, who was Jariz of the most famous sculptors and the Greeks had already work with the teacher to build a statue of the god Zeus in Italy, which reached a height of 22 Mtra- carving giant statue but the statue was not carved from a single rock, it is likely that the Jariz initially carved statue of a miniature of the god Helios does not exceed a height of a meter and used it as a model for the construction of the statue the great its parts formed from layers of bronze poured and formed on the ground and then lifted to be placed in its proper place on the chassis platform, which is inside the statue was hollow, and is the same method used by the French in the nineteenth century to build the Statue of Liberty in New York. Been making a large base of white marble, up 18 meters to put the structure of the statue it has also been installed foot and ankle first and then the rest of the parts of the statue, and the workers pouring liquid bronze above the stone structure .zl statue erected in ÔăćÎ at the entrance to the island for a period of six and fifty years only, in in 226 BC, the island of Rhodes came to a violent earthquake destroyed large parts of them, and was part of the mass statue of the god Helios, who crashed to large parts scattered on the ground around the platform that sits above it.
lighthouse of Alexandria
Lighthouse of Alexandria was a strange one, which had its practical use has been used as a beacon to guide ships in dangerous waters -valsahal Egyptian flat and level to a great extent so that it has almost no any sign or signal to alert navigators approached Menh- off the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, which was overlooking the Mediterranean coasts and she meant ships coming from kingdoms and other countries have been built on the small island of Pharos between 285 and 247 BC and was entrusted Ptolemy first task of designing and construction of the lighthouse to the architect Grecian famous people of Anatolia called Sostratos was the longest buildings of the world for a long time where the height of 117 meters, equivalent to building consists of 40 floors. He was a construction consists of four main parts, square base, which sits above the building, then the first part of the lighthouse building itself and is square in shape with a height of about 56 meters, followed by part or another layer octagonal a height of 28 meters, topped Mannar circular shape is the last part of the building and has a height of about eight meters, and at the highest point of the lighthouse there was a bronze statue represents one of the gods, perhaps the god Poseidon the sea god. And the lengths to collect parts of the lighthouse will be different with the whole length of the calculation of the base height of nearly 117 Mtra.kant lighthouse of strength and toughness so resisted by the elements of nature for five centuries, and the best proof of hardness is resistance to twenty-two earthquake hit Alexandria during those centuries. but in the end, destroyed large parts of the lighthouse in 1303, when an earthquake struck a violent west coast of the Mediterranean Sea, and was ruin the final at the hands of another earthquake struck the region in the year 1323 AD, destroying what remains of the lighthouse, and when visited Ibn Battuta then several years was so lofty building has been transformed into the ruins and rubble can not be accessed. In 1480 the lighthouse effects disappeared entirely when he Qaytbay famous castle built in his name known and used in the construction of the stones scattered around the ruins of the lighthouse.
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