Archive for June, 2008

Two thousand years ago, before the invention of airplanes, cameras, or computers, Greek writer Antipater of Sidon undertook the mammoth task of making a list of the most magnificent structures that stood on earth. While six out of the seven Wonders Of The Ancient World now lie buried in the sands of time , their magnificence is worth a look at.

The Great Pyramid of Giza

• Location : The city of Giza m a necropolis in ancient Memphis that is today known as CairomEgypt.

• Built : by the pharaoh Khufu of the Fourth Dynasty to server as a tomb . The pyramid took nearly twenty years to be completed starting from the year 2560 B.C. Inside, the pyrmaid was seperated into three parts — the King’s Chamber, the Queen’s Chamber and the Unfinished Chamber.

• Wonder factor: The highest building in the world for 3800 years, the Great Pyramid is also the only surviving ancient wonder. Even more astonishing is how a 481 feet high structure using approximately two million blocks of stone, each weighing more than two tons, without modern engineering technology.

• Destruction: All that remains is the underlying core structure. Many of the polished white limestones were carted away to Cairo and used for mosques and fortresses after a massive earthquake in 1301. Today the thousands of tourist who enter the pyramid are also slowly destroying it as their breaths carry damaging moiusture and humidity.

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