Egyptian pyramids
Construction time: about 2700-2500 BC
Location: Giza Plateau near Cairo, Egypt
Pharaoh is the king of ancient Egypt, and the pyramid is the tomb of Pharaoh. Why did Pharaoh build the pyramids? How were the huge pyramids built?
Some people say that the pyramids were built by aliens. What is the truth?
According to legend, before the third dynasty in ancient Egypt, both princes and ministers and ordinary people were buried in a rectangular tomb made of mud bricks, which the ancient Egyptians called "Mastaba". Later, a clever young man named Imhotep invented a new building method when designing a mausoleum for the Egyptian Pharaoh Zuosai. He replaced mud bricks with square stones picked from the mountains, constantly revised the design scheme of building a mausoleum, and finally built a six-level trapezoid.
Pyramid-this is the prototype of the pyramid we see now.
In ancient Egypt, the pyramids were trapezoidal and layered, so they were also called hierarchical pyramids. This is a tall pyramid building with a square base and a triangle on each side, which looks like the Chinese character "gold", so we call it "pyramid". The tower mausoleum designed by Imhotep is the first stone mausoleum in Egyptian history.
The second of the seven wonders of the world: the statue of Zeus
Statue of Zeus
Construction Time: About In 457 Bc.
Construction site: Olympia, Greece
Around 450 BC, a huge statue, the statue of Zeus, was completed in Olympia, Greece, where the first Olympic Games (776 BC) were held.
This is a beautifully decorated 40-foot-tall statue: Zeus was carved from ivory by the Greek sculptor phidias, sitting on the steps and made of gold. Zeus wore a crown on his head, the goddess of victory in his right hand and water in his left. Later, for security reasons, the Greeks decided to move it to Constantinople (now Istanbul). But it didn't save this great statue in the end. A fire in 462 AD completely destroyed the statue. In Olympia, only ruins are left.
The third of the seven wonders of the world: the colossus of Rhodes, the giant statue of Rhodes Harbor.
Rodport giant statue
Construction time: late 4th century BC or early 2nd century BC.
Construction site: Aegean Sea in Rhodes Port, Greece
Rhode Island in BC is an important commercial center, located at the junction of Aegean Sea and Mediterranean Sea. Port Rhodes was built in 408 BC.
10 feet high, that is, similar to the height of the famous Statue of Liberty in new york. The statue is hollow and reinforced with complex stones and iron columns. But this great statue was destroyed by a strong earthquake only 56 years after it was built.
Legend has it that the statue stood on the harbor with its legs spread apart, and the ship passed between its legs. Imagine what a spectacular and interesting scene this is.
Four Wonders of the World: the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus and the Mausoleum of Mo Solas.
Radical mausoleum
Construction time: about 353 BC
Construction site: present-day southwest Turkey.
This huge white marble mausoleum was built for Mo Solas and his wife. The whole building is 135 feet high, designed by two Greeks, and destroyed by a great earthquake at the beginning of 15 century. There are still some remaining sculptures in the British Museum in London.
Five of the Seven Wonders of the World: the Temple of themis (Diana) and the Temple of Simis in Ephesus.
artemis temple,selcuk
Construction time: about 550 BC
Construction site: Ephesus, the Greek city-state, which is now the west coast of Turkey.
Temple buildings are based on marble and covered with wooden roofs.
The designers of the whole building are Chersiphron and his son. Its biggest feature is that there are two rows of columns at least 106, each row is about 40 to 60 feet high. The base of this temple is about 200 feet wide and 400 feet long.
The original temple was destroyed by a fire in 356 BC, and it was built after the original site caught fire again in 262 AD.
Six of the Seven Wonders of the World: hanging garden, Hanging Garden.
Hanging gardens in Babylon
Construction time: about 600 BC
Construction site: Babylon near Baghdad, Iraq.
This fabulous building was built by Nebuchadnezzar II for one of his concubines. It is about 400 square feet and 75 feet above the ground.
It is said that slaves need to turn a mechanical device to pump a lot of water from the Euphrates River below to irrigate the flowers and plants in the garden.
The Seven Wonders of the World-The Colossus of the Sun God in Rhode Island
Construction time: completed in 282 BC.
Construction site: Aegean Sea in Rhodes Port, Greece
The Colossus of Rhode Island is located in the port of Rhode Island in Greece leading to the Mediterranean Sea. Rhode Island in BC is an important commercial center, located at the junction of Aegean Sea and Mediterranean Sea. Port Rhodes was built in 408 BC. Historically, Rhode Island was ruled by many spheres of influence, including Mo Solas (whose tomb is also one of the Seven Wonders) and Alexander the Great. But after the death of Alexander the Great, the whole island was plunged into a long war. Macedonian invader Dmitry led 40,000 troops (more than the population of the whole island) to surround the port. After a hard war, Rhode Island defeated the invaders. To celebrate this victory, they decided to build a statue with bronze weapons abandoned by the enemy. This statue has been built for 12 years and is about 33 meters high, which is similar to the height of the Statue of Liberty in New York. The statue is hollow and reinforced with complex stones and iron columns. But this great statue was destroyed by a strong earthquake just over 50 years after it was built. Legend has it that the statue stood in the harbor with its legs apart and boarded the ship only through the middle of its legs, which was very spectacular and interesting.
This colossus is actually the Greek sun god and their patron saint Helius. It was designed by architect Chares and built at the entrance of Rhodes Port. After 12 years of construction, the Colossus of Rhode Island was completed in 282 BC. The whole colossus is 33 meters high, made of marble and covered with bronze, and was later used as a lighthouse. However, the earthquake in 226 BC knocked down the colossus, and its fragile knee became the fatal wound of the colossus, and the colossus fell to the shore near the port of Mandraki. In 654 AD, Rhode Island was invaded by Arabs, and the invaders even transported the remains to Syria, which made it more difficult to investigate this spectacle.
The list of the seven ancient wonders was compiled in the third century BC. By today's standards, we may think that these seven wonders are not particularly eye-catching in terms of scale. However, their extraordinary beauty and long history are still sincerely praised by people.
In fact, the "Seven Wonders of the World" only includes the historic sites along the coast of West Asia, North Africa and the Mediterranean, but the whole world in the eyes of ancient westerners, and the Great Wall of China is too far away from them. This area had a splendid civilization in ancient times. In BC, Phoenician traveler Antiparker called the seven places he considered the greatest "Seven Wonders of the World" when summing up the man-made landscape in this area, and this formulation has been passed down to this day. But except for the Egyptian pyramids, which still stand tall in the desert, six other places have been lost in the dust of history.