EAN: 9781474610339

THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD - BETTAN...

Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of
Babylon. The Temple of Artemis. The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The mausoleum of Halikarnassos.
The Colossus at Rhodes. The Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Seven Wonders of the World were
staggeringly audacious impositions on our planet. They were also brilliant adventures of the
mind  test cases of the reaches of human imagination. Now only the pyramid remains  yet the
scale and majesty of these seven wonders still enthral us today. In a thrilling  colourful
narrative enriched with the latest archaeological discoveries  bestselling historian Bettany
Hughes walks through the landscapes of both ancient and modern time  on a journey whose purpose
is to ask why we wonder  why we create  why we choose to remember the wonder of others. She
explores traces of the Wonders themselves  and the traces they have left in history. A majestic
work of historical storytelling  The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World reinforces the exciting
and nourishing  notion that humans can make the impossible happen.

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