The 7
Wonders of
The World
Written by Jamie Ayling
Illustrated by Amy Carrots
We’ve all heard of the so called 7 Wonders of the World but can you name them all? Today we will be looking at the original 7 Wonders of the World. All over our earth there are glimpses of our past. Architectural anomalies, megastructures built during a time when if you asked a 200 year old man or woman about it even they wouldn’t know what it was like because they were either a baby or hadn’t existed yet, and beautiful statues that we only have artists impressions of today. Sometimes we can get so caught up in today’s newest technologies and products that we forget about our world’s most incredible sights for example the pyramids. Did you know there are triangular buildings in Egypt that are made of
something called limestone? On that note, let my analysis begin.
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“The Pyramid of Giza”. This giant triangular building is one of the Wonders of the World. It’s only 146.7 metres tall which is a little less than half the height of The Eiffel Tower in Paris. Although it’s shorter than The Eiffel Tower, its base is much, much larger. Specifically, a little more than double the width of the French
tower. Regardless of this, its construction is quite incredible as it was built by hand in a time when they didn’t have cranes. Hun- dreds of keen tourists from all over the world flock to the build- ing every year on vacation but the people who live nearby to this building don’t care for it as they see it every day of their lives. They can appreciate its beauty but at this point they are desensi- tised to it which is understandable. It’s made of limestone which is a sedimentary rock. Limestone is made from coral from the ocean. I assume when one walks within this great pyramid one can hear the ocean just like when you place your ear inside a sea shell. There are three small versions of the pyramid next to it. That’s enough about this pyramid. Let’s move on.
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The next 7 Wonders of the World is known as the Hanging Gardens
of Babylon. This garden is simply a garden that hangs down the side of a building using gravity. A King of the name Nebuchadnez- zar II built this wonder for his wife who liked green plants. This King built a large building that contained big ascending garden areas made up of shrubs, vines and trees. This is what the gardens of Babylon is. Some think the Hanging Gardens of Babylon is a myth, some think it was simply destroyed many years ago. The fact it doesn’t exist today poses many questions like, where was it? Did it exist? How was it destroyed? Who wanted it gone? These are all unanswerable questions. On that note it’s time to move on.
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria was a lighthouse in Egypt that looks exactly like the top of a New York Skyscrapper, which is interest- ing because New York didn’t exist when this lighthouse was built. This lighthouse was constructed by members of an Egyptian king- dom, to quote George Lucas, “a long time ago”, in a kingdom, “far far away...”. This Lighthouse was partially destroyed by two earthquakes. This took 12 years to make. 12 long years of construction to build this lighthouse. It’s interesting that it takes so long to build one building in ancient times when today we have tools like cranes and trucks to speed things along. It would have been a very long and excruciatingly tiresome process to build these mag- nificent structures back then, which makes the appreciation and respect for these works of art so much more intense.
Next is something called The Colussus of Rhodes which is
the male version of Statue of Liberty. It was located on the Greek Island of Rhodes and depicts a giant version of the God Helios. This wonderful statue stood as tall as the Statue of Liberty in America.
It was erected by sculptor Chares of Lindos who upon being told that he made a minor mistake in the sculpting of the statue, took his own life.
On our detailed journey through the 7 Wonders of our World, we have now reached The Temple of Artemis. It was a large building located in Turkey. The Temple of Artemis was actually destroyed and rebuilt three times before final destruction in 401 AD. This mirrors the production process and final exhibition of movies today. Antipator of Sidon, the creator of The Seven Wonders of the World list, claims this is his favourite wonder. He says, ”but when I saw the house of Artemis that mounted to the clouds, those other marvels lost their brilliancy”, referring to the six other wonders.
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The last two wonders are basically another statue and another building.
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I hope you enjoyed this article. Have a great day!
