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Wonders of the Ancient World Justin Pollard

Wonders of the Ancient World By Justin Pollard

Wonders of the Ancient World by Justin Pollard


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Summary

A compelling guide to antiquity's greatest constructions - how they came to be built and what then befell them.

Wonders of the Ancient World Summary

Wonders of the Ancient World: Antiquity's Greatest Feats of Design and Engineering by Justin Pollard

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.

About Justin Pollard

Justin Pollard is a Cambridge University Archaeology graduate, who has television experience that includes Time Team and QI. Justin is the author of Seven Ages of Britain and The Story of Archaeology (Quercus).

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

GOR002009144
9781847248909
184724890X
Wonders of the Ancient World: Antiquity's Greatest Feats of Design and Engineering by Justin Pollard
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Quercus Publishing
2009-03-05
192
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