The Great Pyramids at Giza. Built around 2570 BC. Photo: Wikipedia.
Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis. The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The Mausoleum of Halikarnassos. The Colossus at Rhodes. The Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Seven Wonders of the World were staggeringly audacious impositions on our planet. They were also brilliant adventures of the mind, test cases for the reaches of human imagination. Now only the great pyramid remains fully standing, yet their scale and majesty still enthral us today.
Join historian Bettany Hughes for a thrilling presentation enriched with the latest archaeological discoveries, walking through the landscapes of both ancient and modern time to explore traces of the Wonders themselves, and the traces they have left in history. This is a journey whose purpose is to ask why we wonder, why we create, why we choose to remember the wonder of others?
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes is published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson (18 January, 2024)
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