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urses/anth252/default.htm Anthropology
252 Archaeological Wonders of the World
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Timeline
1st Stone Tools
2.5 million years ago
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1st Cities Writing
1st Farming
Industrial Revolution
1700s -1800s
10 k years ago
5 k years ago
For 99 of our existence, our ancestors existed
by scavenging, hunting, gathering, and fishing
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and then we began to create monumental works
Babylon
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Stonehenge
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Tenochtitlán
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Machu Picchu
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Terra Cotta Army
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TIKAL (Temple 1)
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The Great Pyramids of Giza
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THEAMATA things to be seen for wealthy
Greeks, post-Alexander the Great (334-325 B.C.)
The Seven Wonders monuments over 2 millennia old
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WONDER 1 Pyramids of Giza 2686-2181 B.C. (1890
photo)
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WONDER 2 Statue of Zeus at Olympia 435
B.C. Created by the great sculptor,
Phidias (1721 engraving)
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Crumbling columns are all thats left of the
Statue of Zeus its temple
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WONDER 3 The Colossus of Rhodes 294-282
B.C.
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WONDER 4 Temple of Artemis at Ephesus 7th
century B.C. (artistic rendition c. 1660-70)
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Ruins are all that remain of the Temple of Artemis
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WONDER 5 Mausoleum at Halicarnassus 350
B.C. Built for King Mausolos of Caria by his
sister-wife, Artemisia (17th-century oil)
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Only fragments of the Mausoleum survive like
this stone head, which may be King Mausolos
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WONDER 6 The Pharos (Lighthouse) of
Alexandria 260 B.C. The only practical ancient
wonder (1886 lithograph)
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Contradictory accounts of the Pharos light
source 1. Brazier burns flame at night and
smoke by day. 2. Mirrors made of polished stone
(?) or a huge lens reflected light during the
day flames used at night. (Was the mirror used
as a weapon to direct sun into enemy ships to set
them ablaze? Seems improbable.)
(Below, mosiac showing Pharos of Alexandria, from
St. Marks Basilica above, engraving by de
Villard, c. 900-1200 A.D. Tour Egypt 2003)
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In A.D. 175, an earthquake destroyed the
Pharos of Alexandria the fortress shown here
was constructed atop its ruins
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Statues from the Pharos (a sphinx, top, and King
Ptolemy, bottom) were found on the ocean floor
in 1994
See 1994-1998 investigations results at
http//www.unesco.org/csi/pub/source/alex6.htm
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WONDER 7 The Hanging Gardens of Babylon King
Nebuchadnezzar II built them in 580 B.C. for his
wife
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The Arch of Labna in Yucantán, as drawn by
English architect Lloyd Stephens between
1839-1842 (Andrews 1995123).
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There are no seven wonders of the world in the
eyes of a child. There are seven
million. Walt Streightiff
Photos by Ron James John Kinsner