100 Great Wonders of the World

24 hrs. 36 min.

Popular Science

Language Russian

Author Nadezhda Ionina

Narrator Galina Shumskaya

Description

Great Pyramids, the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis, the Pharos lighthouse, the Parthenon, St. Peter’s Cathedral? (Notre?)—the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, the Eiffel Tower, the Church of Christ the Savior... The world to this day builds legends about them, studies them with admiration, and worships them as shrines.

Here is a colorful kaleidoscope of wonders created by the ingenuity of the human genius. But these, at first glance, scattered parts of the mosaic come together into an astonishingly complete picture of a thousand-year history of humankind.

The book tells about the great architectural monuments of past eras, about the devoted work of historians, archaeologists, and architects who did everything so these masterpieces would not be forgotten.

Here are collected facts about extraordinary architectural structures—from the oldest architectural buildings to modern structures— in particular, about St. Peter’s Cathedral, the Eiffel Tower, the Church of the Savior, and so on.

The book is very interesting and intended for a wide range of readers.

Contents:

Introduction
1. Egyptian Pyramids
2. Hanging Gardens
3. Temple of Artemis in Ephesus
4. Zeus Olympian
5. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
6. Colossus on the Island of Rhodes
7. Lighthouse of Pharos
8. Babylonian Walls and the Road of Marduk
9. Tower of Babel
10. Stonehenge
11. Palmyra
12. Temple of the god Amun at Karnak
13. Temple at Baalbek
14. Labyrinth on Crete
15. Abu Simbel
16. Temple of Solomon
17. Carthage — the city of the Phoenician queen
18. “The Eternal City”
19. Colosseum
20. Pantheon
21. Baths of Caracalla
22. Constantinople — Istanbul
23. Bas-relief of King Darius
24. Acropolis
25. Temple of the goddess Athena on the Acropolis
26. City of biblical Moses
27. Mouseion
28. The Great Wall of China
29. Xi’an
30. Nimrud Dag
31. The Lost Pompei
32. Tiauanaco — a city in the mountains
33. Sacred Mecca
34. Palenque
35. The Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and the life-giving fire on Easter
36. Cave churches of Cappadocia
37. “The Picture Gallery” in Pampa de Nasca
38. The Great Church of Hagia Sophia
39. Mosque of the Rock in Jerusalem
40. Umayyad Mosque in Damascus
41. Temple on the stone elephants of Kailasanatha
42. The Hall of the Great Buddha in the Great Eastern Temple
43. Venice
44. Angkor — a city forgotten in the jungles
45. Ancient rival of Baghdad
46. Saint Sophia of Kyiv
47. London
48. London Cathedral of St. Paul
49. Crystal Palace
50. Saint Sophia of Novgorod
51. St. Peter’s Cathedral
52. Notre-Dame de Paris
53. The Church of the Intercession on Nerli
54. The Leaning Tower of Pisa and others
55. The Stone Wonder of Ethiopia
56. Stone complex of Zimbabwe
57. Cologne Cathedral
58. Gungun — the forbidden city
59. “Temple of Heaven” and others
60. Alhambra
61. Trinity-Sergius Lavra
62. Street of mausoleums in Samarkand
63. Observatory of Ulugh Beg
64. Symbol of Switzerland
65. Altar of Russia
66. Assumption Cathedral of the Kremlin
67. Church of the Most Holy Theotokos
68. Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin on the Moat
69. Church of Christ the Savior
70. El Escorial
71. Potala
72. Taj Mahal
73. Versailles
74. St. Isaac’s Cathedral
75. Amber Room
76. Peter’s Court
77. Monument to Peter
78. Statues on Easter Island
79. Kizhi
80. Church of the Intercession and bell tower
81. Sanssouci
82. The oldest, the largest, the youngest (temples of Thailand)
83. Temple of the Mormons
84. Suez Canal
85. Castle of the mad king
86. Golden stupa in Rangoon
87. Kuthodaw Pagoda
88. Sagrada Familia Church
89. Skyscrapers
90. Eiffel Tower
91. Wooden miracle in the city of Verny
92. Statue of Liberty
93. Portraits on Mount Rushmore
94. Babur
95. Statue of the Savior in Rio de Janeiro
96. The Disney world
97. Sydney Opera House
98. C. N. Tower
99. Tunnel under the English Channel
100. Seto-Ohashi Bridge