An edition of Wonders of the ancient world (2011)

Wonders of the ancient world

antiquity's greatest feats of design and engineering

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An edition of Wonders of the ancient world (2011)

Wonders of the ancient world

antiquity's greatest feats of design and engineering

Describes the most extraordinary feats of human engineering and design from across the globe, created between the dawn of human civilization and the onset of the Dark Ages.

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Metro Books
Language
English
Pages
191

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Table of Contents

Newgrange
Stonehenge
The Great Pyramid of Khufu and The Sphinx
Mohenjo Daro
The Great Ziggurat at Ur
The Temple of Solomon
The Palace of Ashurnasirpal II
La Venta
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Persepolis
The Grand Canal
The Parthenon
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Delphi
The Colossus of Rhodes
The Pharos of Alexandria
The Library at Alexandria
The First Great Wall of China
The Tomb of the First Emperor
Petra
The Tower of the Winds
The Rice Terraces of Banaue
The Great Serpent Mound
The Pont du Gard
Nero s Golden House
Masada
The Colosseum
The Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuaca?n
The Forum of Trajan
The Pantheon
The Baths of Diocletian
The City of Tikal
The Buddhas of Bamyan
The Hagia Sophia
The Basilica Cistern at Constantinople
Ho?ryu?-Gakumonji
Borobudur
Ellora.

Edition Notes

Originally published: London : Quercus, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (page 190) and index.

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New York

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Library of Congress
CC165 .P65 2011

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Pagination
191 pages
Number of pages
191

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL39486332M
Internet Archive
wondersofancient0000poll_w7d1
ISBN 10
1435129660
ISBN 13
9781435129665
OCLC/WorldCat
758677238

Work Description

'Wonders of the Ancient World' describes the most extraordinary feats of human engineering and design from across the globe, created between the dawn of human civilization and the onset of the Dark Ages. Author Justin Pollard looks at the problems that the ancients solved to build each wonder and introduces us to the travellers, both ancient and modern, who saw and rediscovered each site.

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