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Семь чудес света. The Pyramids of Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Statue of Zeus. The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. The Temple of Artemis. The Lighthouse at Alexandria. The Colossus of Rhodes. The Piramids of Giza. The Egyptian Pyramids.
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Семь чудес света The Pyramids of Giza The Hanging Gardens of Babylon The Statue of Zeus The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus The Temple of Artemis The Lighthouse at Alexandria The Colossus of Rhodes
The Egyptian Pyramids The Pyramides of Giza are the tombs of the Egyptian Pharaons. The largest of them are pyramids of Heopsa, Hefrena and Mikerina in the Ale-giza. In the ancient time they were considered as one of Seven miracles of the world. The country`s population worked on tomb building in free from agricultural works a part of year. A number of texts testifies about that attention and care, which tsars gave to erection of the tomb and its builders. Pyramids are built on left — the western coast of Nile (the West — a kingdom dead) and towered over all city of dead —over uncountable tombs, pyramids, temples.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, gardens in a palace of Babylon tsar , which he has ordered to do for his favourite wife .They are traditionally ranked as Seven miracles of the world. The first mention about wonderful gardens was in "Stories" of Gerodot, who,possibly, visited Babylon and left to us its fullest description. Already at the time of Gerodot, construction of hanging gardens was attributed to the legendary conqueror of all Asia — Assyrian tsarina Shamurmat (in the Greek pronunciation — Semiramida). Gardens took place on wide tower. Platforms of terraces have been combined from the stone plates covered with a layer of a cane and asphalted. Further there were linings from two numbers of the bricks fastened by plaster and lead plates, not passing water to garden ground floors. All this difficult construction has been covered by a thick layer of the fertile earth which allowed to land here the largest trees.
The Statue of Zeus is the glorified statue of the tsar of gods and people. It is the work of great Greek sculptor- Fidij; one of Seven miracles of the world. The statue was located in the temple of Zeus, in a sacred grove of Altise. Open parts of a body have been laid out by plates of an ivory, attires are from gold, and the sculpture`s basis was wooden. The height reached about 17 meters. The travelers,who saw Zeus in Olympia, name surprising a combination in its face of authority and mercy, wisdom and kindness. In a hand the Thunderer held a statue Nicka (a victory symbol). The richest throne of Zeus has been made of gold and an ivory also. Probably in the end of 4 century the statue of Zeus has been transported to Constantinople and established on a capital hippodrome where was lost during one of fires.
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, or Tomb of Mausolus, was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a satrap in the Persian Empire, and Artemisia II of Caria, his wife and sister. The structure was designed by the Greek architects Satyros and Pythis. It stood approximately 45 m in height, and each of the four sides was adorned with sculptural reliefs created by each one of four Greek sculptors — Leochares, Bryaxis, Scopas of Paros and Timotheus. The finished structure was considered to be such an aesthetic triumph that Antipater of Sidon identified it as one of his Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
The Temple of Artemis The Temple of Artemis , also known less precisely as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to a goddess Greeks identified as Artemis. It was sited at Ephesus (the modern town of Selçuk in present-day Turkey), and was completely rebuilt three times before its eventual destruction in 401 by St John Chrysostom, archbishop of Ephesus, who incited a mob of Christians to completely destroy the temple. Only foundations and sculptural fragments of the latest of the temples at the site remain.
The Lighthouse of Alexandria, also known as the Pharos of Alexandria, was a tower built between 280 and 247 BC on the island of Pharos at Alexandria, Egypt. Its purpose was to guide sailors into the harbour at night time.With a height variously estimated at between 393 and 450 ft (120 and 140 m), it was for many centuries among the tallest manmade structures on Earth.
The statue was made by the sculptor Chares of Lindos and took some 12 years to complete. The Colossus stood in its original position for a total of 56 years, until, in 227/6 BC it was demolished by an earthquake. Although the Rhodians actually got together the funds necessary for re-erecting it, in the end they did not put it back in position, heeding an oracle that warned them that this would cause many disasters for the people of the island. Thus it remained for some 800 years exactly as it had fallen, a sight to be seen for visitors to Rhodes.
