Мультимедийная презентация "The man-made wonders of the world" Part 1

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Pyramids of Cheops The Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid-shaped masonry structures located in Egypt . The most famous Egyptian pyramids are those found at Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo. Several of the Giza pyramids are counted among the largest structures ever built.

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon This is one of the seven great wonders of the world, which is called the top of the garden art. It was situated in Babylon, the capital of the ancient state of Mesopotamia. To the present day this magnificent building has survived. According to one version they were built for the wife of the Babylonian king.

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Statue of Zeus The statue of Zeus was commissioned by the Eleans , custodians of the Olympic Games, in the latter half of the fifth century BC for their recently constructed Temple of Zeus. Seeking to outdo their Athenian rivals, the Eleans employed the renowned sculptor Phidias, who had previously made the massive statue of Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon.

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also known less precisely as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to the goddess Artemis. It was located in Ephesus (near the modern town of Selçuk in present-day Turkey). One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it was completely rebuilt three times before its final destruction in 401 AD.[1] Only foundations and sculptural fragments of the latest of the temples at the site remain. The Temple of Artemis or Artemision

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Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum , Turkey) for Mausolus , a satrap in the Persian Empire, and his sister-wife Artemisia II of Caria. The structure was designed by the Greek architects Satyros and Pythius of Priene .

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was a statue of the Greek titan-god of the sun Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it was constructed to celebrate Rhodes' victory over the ruler of Cyprus, Antigonus I Monophthalmus , whose son unsuccessfully besieged Rhodes in 305 BC . Colossus of Rhodes

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Alexandrian lighthouse was a lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom between 280 and 247 BC which was between 120 and 137 m (394 and 449 ft ) tall.[citation needed] One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, for many centuries it was one of the tallest man-made structures in the world.

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Coliseum is an oval amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy. Built of concrete and sand,[1] it is the largest amphitheatre ever built. The Colosseum is situated just east of the Roman Forum.

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The great Wall of China One of the largest and most ancient monuments in the world. Overall its length is 8851.8 kilometers, on a section passes close to Beijing. The process of construction of this building shakes its scope

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is a 15th-century Inca citadel situated on a mountain ridge 2,430 metres (7,970 ft ) above sea level.[1][2] It is located in the Cusco Region, Urubamba Province, Machupicchu District in Peru,[3] above the Sacred Valley, which is 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Cuzco and through which the Urubamba River flows. Machu Picchu

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originally known to the Nabataeans as Raqmu , is a historical and archaeological city in southern Jordan. The city is famous for its rock-cut architecture and water conduit system. Another name for Petra is the Rose City due to the color of the stone out of which it is carved. Petra is one of the New7Wonders of the World. Petra

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Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan (reigned 1628–1658), to house the tomb of his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal .

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T he ancient Mayan temples The Maya civilization was one of the great Pre-Colombian civilizations, extending throughout the northern Central American region, including the present-day nations of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, southern Mexico and western Honduras.

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was the capital city of the Khmer Empire, which flourished from approximately the 9th to 15th centuries. Angkor was a megacity supporting at least 0.1% of the global population during 1010-1220. The city houses the magnificent Angkor Wat , one of Cambodia's popular tourist attractions. Angkor

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are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500. Moai

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The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed commonly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral, is a church in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. The building, now a museum, is officially known as the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat It was built from 1555–61 on orders from Ivan the Terrible and commemorates the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan. A world-famous landmark , it was the city's tallest building until the completion of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower in 1600 .