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Wonders of the Ancient World: Antiquity's Greatest Feats of Design and Engineering Hardcover – January 1, 2012

by Justin Pollard (Author)
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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. Newgrange; Stonehenge; The Great Pyramid of Khufu and the Sphinx; Mohenjo Daro; The Great Ziggurat at Ur; The Temple of Solomon; The Palace of Ashurnasirpal II; La Venta; The Hanging Gardens of Babylon; The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus; Persepolis; The Grand Canal; The Parthenon; The Statue of Zeus at Olympia; The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus; Delphi; The Colossus of Rhodes; The Pharos of Alexandria; The Library at Alexandria; The First Great Wall of China; The Tomb of the First Emperor; Petra; The Tower of the Winds; The Rice Terraces of Banaue; The Great Serpent Mound; The Pont du Gard; Nero's Golden House; Masada; The Colosseum; The Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan; The Forum of Trajan; The Pantheon; The Baths of Diocletian; The City of Tikal; The Buddhas of Bamyan; The Hagia Sofia; The Basilica Cistern at Constantinople; Horyu-Gakumonji; Borobudur; Ellora.
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    256 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Quercus
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 2012
  5. Dimensions
    7.83 x 0.83 x 10.08 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0857386638
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0857386632
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Quercus (January 1, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0857386638
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0857386632
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.85 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.83 x 0.83 x 10.08 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

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Gihan Zohdy
5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 21, 2020
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Excellent survey, adds to the seven marvels as listed during the Hellenistic times as a lot of these additional monuments were not yet known. However I am astonished as the author did not include the Ephpalinios tunnel in Samos, contemporaneous with the Artemision of Ephesos, the former having been a serious rival and as an underground aquaduct in a mountainous terrain an even greater feat of enineering.
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WilloW
4.0 out of 5 stars The Quest continues
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 4, 2013
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One of my ambitions in life is to visit as many of the winders of the Ancient World and also the Natural World. This book offers me an easy reference of places to tick off that I have already visited and informs me of places I may have overlooked otherwise.

Well worth purchasing if you share my ambition
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J. L. Edwards
5.0 out of 5 stars A great mix of facts, good stories, great photographs, that you can read right through or dip in and out of!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 19, 2014
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The book has the places you'd think would be in there (Pyramids, Stonehenge, etc.), but then a few places most of us wouldn't know. And is a book you can read when your brain is tired (which says much for the skills of the author, and the pick-me-up nature of the book). I've read a lot of Justin Pollard's books, and I'm always very impressed.
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Villeo Soon
5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 13, 2020
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Excellent book.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 5, 2018
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great book
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