Mnogoie know about the Seven Wonders of the World, but not all able to list them (Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Temple of Artemis, The pyramids near Cairo, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, the Statue of Olympian Zeus, the Colossus of Rhodes). The initial list of Wonders of the World (Ancient World) original form consisted of "miracles" of the second century BC For the first time a list of the most impressive buildings in the works mentioned by Herodotus in the fifth century, much before our era. In this list there were only three miracle miracle. All of them were on the island of Samos: the aqueduct in the form of a tunnel, the temple of the goddess Hera and the dam in one of the ports.

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