Tuesday, August 14, 2012

2.....OLD is GOLD: 7 Wonders of the World

Hai friends...
Today I would like to share about 7 wonders in the world...Since yesterday my husband and I discussing the list of 7 wonders...I come cross some usefull information regarding this...
Now we can divide the 7 wonders in two section :

Ancient 7 Wonders 
 and 
New 7 Wonders

Lets us have a look at the pics and u may read the history of aech wonders by your own...As we all know..Old is GOLD...So start with Ancient 7 Wonders


A) Great Pyramid of Giza
The Great Pyramid of Giza, the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

 B) Hanging Gardens of Babylon

C) Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
D) Statue of Zeus at Olympia

E)  Mausoleum at Halicarnassus










The Mausoleum site in ruins, as it is today.
F) Colossus of Rhodes
The Colossus of Rhodes depicted in 1880.
Drawing of Colossus of Rhodes, illustrated in the Grolier Society's 1911 Book of Knowledge.
 G) Lighthouse of Alexandria
Drawing by archaeologist Hermann Thiersch (1909)
Three-dimensional reconstruction based on a comprehensive 2006 study