With the pyramids *** ranked building of course belongs to the eight wonders of the world. Of course, because six of the seven wonders were destroyed, only the pyramids, so add the Qin Shi Huang Tomb and Terracotta Warriors pit. Nowadays there are new eight wonders, all of which can be said to be human wonders alongside the Great Pyramid. The Eight Wonders of the World refer to the Babylonian Garden of the Air, the Lighthouse of Alexandria Harbor, the Aegean Statue of the Sun, the Statue of Olympian Zeus, the Temple of the Moon of Artemis, the Mausoleum of Mosoras, the Pyramids of Egypt and the Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang Tomb in China. But in fact, the first seven are recognized since ancient times, "the seven wonders of the world", "the eighth wonder" in the world has never been determined. Since Chirac's visit to China in 1978 to evaluate the Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an as the "eighth wonder of the world", this title has been spreading.
The First Wonders: The Sky Garden of Ancient Babylon Introduction
Established: Between 604 BC and 562 BC. Location: 56 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq.
History: Built by King Nebuchadnezzar II of ancient Babylon for his favorite queen. The queen was a Midianite, and Nebuchadnezzar II built this fantastically tall structure for her so that she could look homeward often. The Garden of the Air was filled with many exotic flowers and plants and had a complete water supply. The ancient Greeks who saw it called it the wonder of the world.
Legend: Nebuchadnezzar II, the king of New Babylon, married Mittens, the princess of Midian, as his queen. The princess was beautiful and loved by the king. But as time went by, the princess grew sad. Nebuchadnezzar did not know why. The princess said, "My hometown is full of mountains and flowers. And here is the endless plains of Babylon, not even a hill can be found, how I long to see our home mountains and coiled trails again!" It turned out that the princess was suffering from homesickness. So Nebuchadnezzar II made the craftsmen follow the scenery of the mountainous region of Midian, in his palace, built a cascading terraced garden, which was planted with exotic flowers and grasses, and made quiet mountain paths in the garden, which were beside the gurgling water. The craftsmen also built a city tower in the center of the garden, standing in the air. The skillfully crafted garden scenery finally won the heart of the princess. Because the garden is higher than the palace walls, giving the impression that the entire imperial garden hanging in the air, so it is called "air garden", also known as "hanging garden".
Second Wonders Port Alexandria Lighthouse Introduction
The world's eight recognized wonders of antiquity there are two in Egypt, one of the eight wonders of the Giza pyramids, the other is the Alexandria Lighthouse. It does not have any religious color, purely for the people's practical life and built, Alexandria lighthouse candlelight in the night shines throughout the Alexandria harbor, protect the sea ships, in addition, it is also the world's tallest building at that time. The site of the Alexandria Lighthouse is on the island of Pharos, off the city of Alexandria, Egypt. In 330 B.C., Alexander the Great, the mighty king of Macedonia, captured Egypt and founded a city named after him on the south shore of the Mediterranean Sea at the northwestern end of the Nile Delta. It was a strategically important city, and over the next 100 years it became the capital of Egypt, one of the most prosperous cities in the world, and one of the largest and most important international transshipment ports in the entire Mediterranean world and the Middle East. The lighthouse was built on the island of Pharos, more than one kilometer off the waterfront of Alexandria, so it was named "Pharos". Since then, the word "lighthouse" in western countries, are "Pharos" (PHAROS) sound. For example, English "PHAROS", French "PHAROS", Italian and Spanish "FARO" and so on are pronounced. In fact, this magnificent lighthouse is not really on the island, but on a large reef seven meters away from the island. Reef with the rise and fall of the tide and sometimes hidden, so that the entire lighthouse building year-round by the waves of the waves of the wash, as if in the sea to pull up a sky-scraping building. On the tower there is a huge, radiant, year-round lighthouse torch.
Exterior: Alexandria lighthouse (THE LIGHTHOUSE OF ALEXANDRIA) is 120 meters high, plus the base of the tower, the entire height of about 135 meters. The tower consists of three layers: the first layer is a square structure, 60 meters high, which has more than 300 rooms of varying sizes, used as a fuel depot, engine room and staff sleeping quarters; the second layer is an octagonal structure, 15 meters high; the third layer is a circular structure, the top with 8 meters high 8 stone pillars around the dome light tower. Above the lighthouse, there stands an 8-meter-high bronze statue of Helios, the god of the sun, in a standing position. The entire lighthouse is constructed of materials such as granite and copper, and the lamp is fueled by olive oil and wood. The entire lighthouse covers an area of about 930 square meters. The clever designers also used the principle of reflection, using mirrors to reflect the light further out to sea. This unparalleled lighthouse, lit night after night, diligently navigates the incoming ships, and it gives the helmsman a sense of security.
History: 280 BC in the fall of a night, the moon is dark and windy, an Egyptian royal happy ship, sailing into the port of Alexandria, hit the reef and sank, the ship's royal relatives and brides from Europe, all buried in the belly of the fish. This tragedy, shocked the Egyptian dynasty and countryside. Egypt's King Ptolemy II ordered the entrance to the largest port, the construction of navigation lighthouse. After 40 years of hard work, a majestic lighthouse was erected on the eastern end of the island of Pharos. It stands on a rocky reef seven meters from the island's shore and is known as the "Alexander Pharos Lighthouse".
When the Alexandria Lighthouse was completed, it was deservedly the tallest building in the world at the time, at 400 feet. Designed by the Greek architect Soschatos, the Alexandria lighthouse has been guiding sailors into the harbor in the darkness of night for 1,500 years. An Arab traveler recorded in his notes, "The lighthouse was built on top of three flights of steps, and at its top, a mirror reflected daylight during the day, and firelight guided the ships at night."
In the 14th century A.D., a rare earthquake struck the city of Alexandria, shaking the earth and destroying the architectural marvel of the ancient world with tremendous force. This Alexandria's loyal guards this crown of Alexandria just disappeared another century, the Egyptian King Mamluk Sultan in order to resist foreign aggression to defend Egypt and its coastline ordered in the lighthouse on the site of the construction of a castle and named after his own name after Egypt's independence, the castle was changed into a nautical museum (NAVAL MUSEUM) in November 1996 a group of divers in the In November 1996 a group of divers discovered what is believed to be the remains of the Alexandria lighthouse in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea
The Third Miracle The Aegean Statue of the Sun Edit English:THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES
Introduction
Built
Late 4th century B.C.E., or early 2nd century.
Built in
Statue of the Giant of Rhodes Port
AEGEAN SEA, Rhodes Port, Greece.
History
The island of Rhodes was an important business center in B.C. It was located at the junction of the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, and the port of Rhodes was built in 408 BC. Historically Rhodes has been ruled by many powers, including Mosolus (whose tomb is also one of the Eight Wonders) and Alexander the Great. But after the return of Alexander the Great, the whole island was plunged into a long war. The Macedonian invader Demetrius led an army of 40,000 men (which was more than the entire population of the island) to surround the harbor. After a hard-fought battle, the Rhodians defeated the invaders. To celebrate this victory, they decided to build a statue with bronze weapons abandoned by the enemy. The statue took twelve years to build, and it is 110 feet tall, or about the same height as the familiar Statue of Liberty in New York. The statue was hollow and reinforced inside with intricate pillars of stone and iron. But this great statue was destroyed by a powerful earthquake just 56 years after it was built. Legend has it that the statue stood with its legs apart on the harbor, with ships passing between them (an imaginary picture of it is shown on the right), but in reality the statue was not straddling the harbor.
4 Fourth Wonders Statue of Zeus at Olympia Edit English: THE TEMPLE OF ZEUS AT OLYMPIA
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Introduction
Zeus (ZEUS) is the god of the Greek gods, is the main god of Olympia (OLYMPIA). For the table worship and the construction of the statue of Zeus is the world's largest indoor statue, Zeus statue where the Temple of Zeus is the birthplace of the Olympic Games. Byzantine Philo wrote of the Seven Wonders of the World, "We are proud of the other six wonders and revere the statue of Zeus."
It is said that the priests of Olympia, who admired the masterpiece of Phidias, appointed his descendants to be responsible for the proper preservation of the idol of Zeus and to enjoy eternal glory.
Zeus is the third god-king in the genealogy of the ancient Greek gods, he is an omnipotent god, who can perceive and understand anything and everything in the world, whether on earth or on the sacred mountain, he is the source of the divine metaphors, and he decides the destiny of the gods and men.
Zeus (Greek: ΖΕ, or ΔΑ), god of the heavens, the supreme god of ancient Greek mythology, known in Roman mythology as Jupiter (Latin: JUPITER), was the youngest son born to Cronus (ΚΡΝΟ) and Rhea (ΡΑ). Cronus, who had gained supreme power by overthrowing his father Uranus, learned that he would be overthrown by his own children, as his father had been, and devoured his children. His wife, Rhea, because she could not bear the thought of Zeus being swallowed as well, took a stone and pretended that Zeus had given it to him to swallow. Zeus grew up and joined his siblings in a fierce struggle against his father. After ten years of war, he defeated his father with the help of his grandmother, Gaia, the goddess of the earth. Zeus and his brothers Poseidon and Hades were divided into the heavenly realm, the sea realm and the underworld. From then on Zeus became the ruler over the universe. The Latin name of Jupiter originated from him.
Zeus had many children and grandchildren with many goddesses and women, among them Apollo and Artemis, Dionysus, Hercules and so on. Zeus in order to get close to the goddesses and women, can be said to do anything, and he always sneak, so always make Hera angry. He would always try to hinder Hera in different ways in order not to let her know where his affair was. Zeus also had some male lovers such as Ganymede.
Location:The Temple of Zeus was the religious center of ancient Greece. The temple is located in the southeast of the Acropolis, Greece, Irizos River, a vast flat in the center of the ancient Greek gods of Zeus in charge of the region; this place is all a piece of yellow hills, but in the ancient Greek period, surrounded by verdant valleys and refreshing streams, the scenery is elegant, not far away from the more a dense forest, lush greenery, the forest on both sides of the path is the flowers and trees, fighting, beautiful, is the time of the Religious Center. In the ancient Greek era, that place is located outside the walls of the city of Athens, to the era of the Hadrianic Emperor in order to expand the size of the city of Athens, the city walls will be extended outward, only to the temple into the city.
The statue of the god
The temple itself was built in the Doric style (DORICORDER). The surface is covered with stuccoed limestone, and the roof of the temple is made of marble. The temple*** is supported by 34 Corinthian pillars that are about 17 meters high and cover an area of 41.1 meters x 107.90 meters. The stone statues in front of and behind the temple are carved from marble from the island of Paros (PAROS). Many of the statues on the herringbone cornice on the west side of the temple are in full Athenian style. Did the great god Zeus in heaven like it when it was built this way? It is said that Phidias construction of the statue, had personally asked the god Zeus on Mount Olympus, and the god to thunderbolt lightning, cracked the temple pavement as an answer. As for the temple protagonist "Zeus", using the so-called 'Chris Rivantine' (CHRYSELEPHANTINE) technology, is in the wooden support plus ivory carved muscles and gold clothing. The throne was also gold-clad on a wooden base, inlaid with ebony, precious stones and glass, and took eight years to complete.
In the traveler Shanyasba (PAUSANIAS) < Greek travels > a book, had a detailed description of the statue of Zeus, recorded in the book: "Zeus God's body is made of wood, the body of the exposed part of the paste on the ivory, the clothes are covered with gold. On top of his head he wore a crown of woven olive branches, in his right hand he held a statue of Victory made of ivory and gold, and in his left hand he held a scepter made of various metals with a buzzard resting on top of it." As for his throne, the head of the statue and the back of the head are carved with statues of the "Three Goddesses of Elegance" and the "Three Goddesses of the Seasons" (spring, summer, and winter); the legs and feet are decorated with the dancing goddess Victory and the Sphinx with a human head and sphinx, as well as with other Greek gods and goddesses, and the base is 6.55 meters wide and 1 meter high. The base is 6.55 meters wide and 1 meter high, while the statue is about 13 meters high, equivalent to a four-story modern building. Behind the statue hung a sacred mantle plundered from the Temple of Jerusalem. Phidias planned the surrounding area to include the light coming from the temple gates to the statue, and in order to make the face of the statue more beautiful and luminous, he built a large and shallow olive oil fountain in front of the statue, inlaid with black marble, using olive oil to reflect the light. During the time it stood, workers came to polish the ivory, called "Phidias polishers".
The composition of the statue of Zeus, the age of the background and decorative statues, can be described in detail, but the style of the work of Phidias is difficult to determine. According to ancient documents, Phidias's skill in sculpting statues of gods reached its peak, and he was able to make statues of gods with an unattainable solemnity. The statue of Zeus, in particular, was able to add a unique character to the ordinary religious image. In order to find out the true meaning of this statement (the original sculpture of the Phidias idol has been completely lost), over the years, experts and scholars have individually studied the replicas of the Phidias idol in the hope of identifying the ****same characteristics. They have paid particular attention to the decorative statues of the Parthenon in Athens, which Phidias is said to have supervised. It is, of course, difficult to determine which of these statues Phidias sculpted himself, for he must have been very busy both as supervisor and as sculptor of the colossal statue of Asina in the temple, but it is probable that Phidias alone decided on the design and overall style of all the statues. The works closest to Phidias' style are probably the idols on the eastern horizontal band of the temple, but on a different scale. These statues strike a delicate balance between the seriousness of the earlier style and the lightness and subtlety of the later style.
History
The Temple of Zeus was the religious center of Greece, and many kinds of offerings were made to it by city states and commoners. Zeus has been bowed to at the open-air altar for centuries. The altar is said to have been made from the ashes of the various sacrifices offered to Zeus. The Temple of Zeus was built in 471 B.C. The fifth century B.C. was supervised by the local architect LIBON OF ELIS to build a magnificent temple as the Temple of Zeus and was completed in 456 B.C. The stone statues in front of and behind the temple were carved from marble from the island of Pairos (PAROS), and the statue of Zeus was taken care of by the sculptor Phidias (PHIDIAS).
The many statues on the west side of the temple herringbone cornice, full Athenian style. Whether Athenian statues were needed for the temple, or whether Phidias' reputation was such that he was asked by the temple builders to sculpt at Olympia, is not known.
One theory is that Phidias was accused of stealing valuable materials when he sculpted the colossal statue of Asina in the Parthenon, was deposed, and left his hometown of Athens for a life of exile, ending up in Olympia. The only plausible thing about this claim is that Phidias was friends with the famous politician of the time, Pericles (PERICLES), and any blow to his reputation would have had an adverse effect on Pericles, so Phidias began to flee.
The earliest of the modern excavations carried out at Olympia was in 1829 under the auspices of a French expedition. It lasted six weeks. It was a German expedition that made Olympia more accessible to moderns. Beginning in 1875, they excavated almost without interruption, and although they found the temple of Zeus and the decorative statues, and partially restored the temple to its original shape, they never found any trace of the statue of Zeus itself. Between 1954 and 1958, however, an exciting series of excavations by archaeologists unearthed, not far from the Temple of Zeus, the ruins of Phidias' workplace, which was the same shape and size as the main chamber of the Temple. Phidias could sculpt the statue of Zeus in this temple-like setting without interfering with the work of the temple. Phidias must have selected a group of working men in Athens and brought them to Olympia. Many pieces of Athenian pottery made in 435 BC (Phidias died in 432 BC after completing the statue of Zeus) have been found at the site of his workshop, as well as ivory, glass, and goldsmith's tools, and fragments of terracotta molds, which appear to have been used to make parts of the statue's garments. Among the pottery found was a broken cup with a finely engraved inscription: "I belong to Phidias".
The idol was worshiped for more than 900 years, but Christianity put an end to it. In 393 A.D., the Roman Emperor Theodius I resolutely issued an edict to stop the games, and the ancient Olympic Games were terminated in that year. Then, in 426 A.D., and issued a pagan temple destruction order, so the statue of Zeus was destroyed, Fidesia's studio was also converted into a church, the ancient Greek ashes from then on; temple within the crumbling stone columns in 522 A.D. and 551 years of earthquakes in the earthquake collapsed, the stone was torn down, and converted into a fortress to defend against the invasion of the barbarians, and then the Olympia area flooded frequently, the whole city was buried in the thick silt under. The whole city was buried under a thick layer of silt. Fortunately, the statue had already been transported to Constantinople (now known as Istanbul), where it was kept by Luisi for 60 years, but was eventually destroyed in the city's riots.
Influence
While the statue of Zeus has disappeared from the world, he survives in another way, the great face of Zeus has become the Orthodox statue of Christ Almighty. In the St. Francis of Assisi Chapel in Kola, Istanbul, at the top of the throne sits Olympian Zeus in the guise of Christ. How exactly was this pagan deity transformed to represent the Christ figure? Archaeologists estimate that there are several reasons; first, the Olympian statue itself was a spectacle of great perfection; second, the statue represented the supreme divinity for almost a thousand years....
5 Fifth Wonder Temple of Artemis Edit English: THE TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS AT EPHESUS
Built: 550 BC
Built: the Greek city-state of Efesus, on the west coast of Turkey.
Introduction
Goddess of the hunt and goddess of the moon in ancient Greek mythology, one of the main gods of Olympus, also regarded as the protector of wild animals. Artemis is the daughter of Zeus, the main god, and Leto, the goddess of the night, and the twin sister of Apollo, born on the island of Asterix (Tyrol). According to legend, Leto gave birth to Apollo nine days after the birth of Artemis and with the assistance of Artemis. This is why Artemis was also worshipped as the god of childbirth and midwifery. In the forests and mountains, armed with a bow and arrows and accompanied by dogs, she hunted with the goddesses, sometimes traveling in a chariot drawn by two stags. Artemis was brave and swift. Sometimes she was very violent. She adhered to the ancient rules and regulations, and asked people to strictly abide by them. Anyone who violated them was often killed with a bow and arrow. King Onius of Calydon for not giving her fresh fruit as always, she was so angry that she drove the ferocious wild game into Calydon. She incited the leader of the hunters, Meleagher, to be at odds with his people, resulting in the tragic death of the great hero Meleagher. Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek coalition on an expedition to Troy, shot her sacred deer and boasted that his shooting skills were superior to those of the goddess of the hunt. In a fit of anger, Artemis caused the sea winds to stop abruptly, thus preventing the Greek allies' ships from sailing. She insisted on offering Iphigenia, Agamemnon's daughter, as a sacrifice for the sacred deer, and conveyed it through the seer. Agamemnon was compelled to comply, and, by exchanging the deer on the altar for a human being, she concealed it from the crowd, and carried Iphigenia to Tauris, where she became a priestess in her own temple, and specialized in exacting tribute. According to legend, Hercules had killed the golden-horned deer of Clunia and was forced to plead his innocence before Artemis and Apollo. Artemis was regarded in Crete as the lord of the beasts and was personified by Britomartis, the goddess of the caracal hunt. Her oldest image is not only of a female hunter, but even of a female bear.
Artemis was once worshipped as the protector of plants, but later evolved into the goddess of fertility and patron of fertility. Her sanctuaries were mostly near springs and ponds that symbolized the god of fertility and plants. She was as spirited as Keble, the mother of the gods of Asia Minor. In the Ephesian pantheon she was worshipped as the god of many breasts. When she was born, she received for her mother Apollo, who was born with her. She also had the art of causing sudden death, or assisting a woman in labor through the fertility god Eleutheria.
Early legends of Artemis relate her to the moon goddess, who is nearly identical with Selene, and later myths describe her as a moon goddess in love with the beautiful boy Endymion. Artemis was not initially a moon goddess and it is rumored that she asked Zeus for the office of the moon, which he acquiesced to, and she has since been confused with a moon goddess statue.
Ancient Greeks will be the different forms of the moon to distinguish between the three heavenly moon god, usually Phoebe (PHOEBE) on behalf of the crescent moon, Selene (SELENE) on behalf of the full moon, Artemis (ARTEMIS) on behalf of the curved moon, the medium-term myths after the Hecate (HECATE) is also one of the moon god, she represents the moon of the underworld.
Temple
The temple building is based on marble and covered with a wooden roof. The architects of the entire building were the CHERSIPHRON father and son, and its most distinctive feature is the interior, which has two rows, of at least 106 columns, each about 40 to 60 feet high. The base of the temple is about 200 by 400 feet.
History
Late in the night of July 21, 356 B.C., this magnificent temple was reduced to rubble in a fire, and the temple built after the original site suffered another fire in 262 A.D.. The ruins of the temple are located on the Ionian seashore in present-day Turkey. There is nothing but debris in front of people's eyes.
6 The Sixth Wonder The Mausoleum of Mosoras Editor's Introduction
The Mausoleum of Mosoras is located in Halicarnassus, in the southwestern part of Turkey (TURKEY), and the bottom building is rectangular in shape, measuring 40 meters (120 ft.) by 30 meters (100 ft.), and 45 meters (140 ft.) high, with a pier-seat wall that is 20 meters high, columns that are 12 meters high, a pyramid that is 7 meters high, and a topmost The top of the pyramid is 7 meters high, and the statue of the carriage is 6 meters high, the building is surrounded by a pier wall and decorated with stone statues, and the statue on the top is a four-horse-drawn chariot with an ancient double chariot.
The mausoleum is famous not only for its architecture, but also for its sculptures. The sculptures of the Mausoleum of Mosoras were made by four famous sculptors, BRYAXIS, LEOCHARES, SCOPAS, and TIMOTHEUS, each of whom was responsible for one of the sides of the mausoleum.
Mausoleum of Mosoras
When Halicarnassus was invaded at the beginning of the 15th century, the new rulers used some of the stones of the Mausoleum of Mosoras as building material in 1494, in order to build a huge castle. A number of sculptures still survive today and are housed in a museum in London, England. Since the 19th century, archaeological excavations have been carried out at the Mausoleum of Mosolaus, which have provided a lot of information about the Mausoleum of Mosolaus, and allowed us to understand more about the shape and appearance of the Mausoleum of Mosolaus.
The Mausoleum of Mausolus is located in the large square in the center of the city of Halicarnassus (present-day Turkey) in southwestern Asia Minor. The person buried in the mausoleum is MAUSOLUS, the governor of Caria, a dependency of the Persian Empire, in the middle of the fourth century BC.
What is known about King Mausolus is that he was an energetic, warlike man who conquered Rhodes and became a lord of the kingdom in a short time.
Exterior
The mausoleum*** is divided into four tiers, with a six-step altar, constructed of white marble brought from Greece, and a rectangular base, measuring 40 meters (120 ft.) by 30 meters, and 45 meters high, in which the building is surrounded by a wall of 20-meter-high piers with statues of warriors on their backs, and above the piers, 36 gold and white marble columns, 12 meters high, in the Ionic form, are arranged. Above the piers, 36 columns of white marble, decorated with statues of gods and goddesses, were arranged in a 12-meter-high gold and white Ionic style, and above the columns, there were table wheels; above them, there was a 7-meter-high pyramid with an extremely steep incline, and the top of the pyramid was decorated with a gilded bronze team of horses and two-wheeled chariots; and inside the tomb, there were marble statues of King Mau Solos and Queen Artemisia.
All the sculptures are said to have been executed on one side of the tomb by four famous sculptors, BRYAXIS, LEOCHARES, SCOPAS, and TIMOTHEUS. Ancient writers used to speak of the Mausoleum of the Kings of Mosoras, like a silver-white cloud high above the city.
The Tomb of the Kings of Mosoras, unlike the Temple of the Moon at Artemis, still stands proudly, even though it took more than 1500 years to build. It wasn't until the early 15th century that the Crusaders, recognizing Halicarnassus as a strategically important location, decided to build the massive Fortress of St. Peter, which was constructed from the stone of the mausoleum; they embedded all of the interior and exterior decorations of the mausoleum inside the walls of the fortress, making the entire mausoleum virtually unrecognizable.
In 1859, British archaeologist Sir Charles Newton made a study of the famous Mausoleum. In 1859, British archaeologist Sir Charles Newton excavated the famous Mausoleum of King Mausolus and deposited the surviving fragments of stone lion statues, columns and figures in a special room in the British Museum in London, England.
The prosperous city of Halicarnassus is a small, lonely fishing village, and no one can point to the site of the beautiful Mausoleum of King Mausolus, or even know that such a magnificent structure once stood there. Though the remains of the city's central plaza remain, there is no sign of the tomb, only overgrown weeds!
The mausoleum is so famous that it has been copied, but the copycats can't tell you why it was famous in the first place.
By Greek standards, the mausoleum is not a large building, nor is it even particularly beautiful, or even, in Greek aesthetics, a rather ugly building. But why did it become a spectacle?
The answer must be sought in ancient Greek records, remember that inscription from Mosoras? 'I am Mosoras. I lie beneath the Bodrum mound, adorned with a unique marble statue of a man and a horse. It is famous for its carvings; the remains of the tomb of King Mosolaus, in the British Museum, contain carved fragments of the oldest Greek statues in the world, real life figures, noble and strong and great; for the first time men and women in the flesh, not gods on glittering marble columns; as if the builders were telling the visitor that these were you. This is what makes the mausoleum a spectacle for the citizens of the magical metropolis to walk around with their heads held high. The word 'mausoleum' has come to mean mausoleum in modern times.
History
In the 4th century B.C., in the southwestern part of today's Anatolian Plateau, there was a Carian Empire, which flourished under the rule of King Mosolus, of which the port of Rhodes was once a part. While Mosoras was still alive, work began on a mausoleum for him and his queen, Artemisia II (who was also his sister). Today, the mighty Carian Empire no longer exists, and only the remains of the king's mausoleum tell the world the legend of the empire. The massive mausoleum was completed in 353 BC. According to the Latin historian Pliny the Great, the building consisted of three parts: the foundation was a platform 19 meters high, 39 meters long and 33 meters wide; on the foundation was an Ionic continuous arcade of 36 columns, 11 meters high; and on top of the arcade was a pyramid-shaped roof consisting of 24 steps, symbolizing the years of the reign of Mossoras. At the top of the mausoleum is a statue of Mosolaus and the queen driving a four-horse chariot. The entire structure is 45 meters high! In addition to the magnificent architecture, the foundations of the Mausoleum of Mosoras are surrounded by beautiful sculptures. It is recorded that of three of the reliefs, the first shows a horse-drawn carriage, the second a scene of Greeks fighting Amazons, and the third a battle between Lapithi and a centaur monster. Fragments of the second statue are still preserved today in the British Museum in London. The mausoleum was badly damaged by an earthquake in the 12th century A.D. In 1402, the Knights of the Vandals captured Halicarnassus and built the fortress of St. Peter's there, and in the early 16th century, to reinforce the fortress, the knights used the mausoleum as a quarry, and the Mausoleum of Mossoras was gradually demolished.
7 Seventh Wonders The Pyramids of EgyptEditor's Introduction
Date of Construction
About 2700
The Pyramids of Egypt
-2500 BC
Location of Construction
The Giza Plateau near Cairo, Egypt
8 Eighth Wonders The Terracotta Warriors The Mausoleum of Qin Terracotta Warriors Editor's Introduction
The eighth wonder of the world as it has been called has more than two hundred places all over the world, all of which are self-appointed by the people of various countries for their own national attractions.
The Red Flag Canal in Linzhou, the Stone Forest in Yunnan and the Great Wall mentioned above are also considered by some to be the eighth wonder of the world.
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