Michael Higgins broadens our understanding of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by bringing science, engineering, and technology together with Ancient documentation and archaeological findings.
After using science, engineering, and technology to answer key questions about the Wonders, Higgins speculates on how we could recreate these Ancient monuments and make new Wonders that could withstand environmental changes and natural disasters for the next two thousand years..
These and other topics are accessibly explored in this book.
Even the natural processes often responsible for a Wonder\'s destruction sometimes contributed to the preservation of its ruins.
It also took natural resources, as well as an understanding of the environment where the Wonder would stand.
To build a Wonder took advanced social organization and wealth generated by agriculture and trade, both of which depended on regional geography and climate.
In The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World , Michael Higgins combines scientific research together with Ancient documentation and archaeological findings to present a rich, multi-layered portrait of each monument.
However, never before have these attempts been synthesized with the contributions of science, engineering, and technology.
Even though six of the Wonders are now gone, historians and archaeologists have attempted to explain how and why these Ancient monuments were created.
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (Pyramids of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Colossus of Rhodes, and the Pharos Lighthouse at Alexandria ) have been a source of fascination for more than two thousand years.
Michael Higgins broadens our understanding of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by bringing science, engineering, and technology together with Ancient documentation and archaeological findings
