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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

By Bettany Hughes

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2024
ISBN
9780593686164, 9780593686157, 9785093686164
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
48 MB (50816591 bytes)
Pages
432\0
Topic
History
Orientation
landscape
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-04-26 13:00:10

Description

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning historian and broadcaster comes an immersive, awe-inspiring tour of the ancient sites that kindle our imagination and afford us a glimpse into our shared history “This fascinating book is brimming with stories of people and places, all told with Bettany’s natural sense of wonder and adventure.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, New York Times bestselling author of The World For millennia, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have been known for their aesthetic sublimity, ingenious engineering, and sheer, audacious magnitude: The Great Pyramids of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Zeus, the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse at Alexandria. Echoing down time, each of these persists in our imagination as an emblem of the glory of antiquity, but beneath the familiar images is a surprising,...

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