Tracking LOST EMPIRES

From: Humanities | Date: November 1, 2004| Author: Woodville, Louisa; Berg, Emmett | Copyright information

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IN 140 B.C.E. THE GREEK POET ANTIPATER OF SIDON composed a list of seven architectural wonders. He included the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the city's impregnable walls, fortifications so broad that there was "room for a fourhorse chariot to turn," according to the historian Herodotus.

Now another list is being compiled by the World Monuments Fund, a nonprofit that works to safeguard and preserve endangered historical sites. Its project wi...

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