If you had lived a few thousand years ago, you could have taken a ride in a four-horse chariot like the one on top of this building. The building was the famous gold and marble tomb of a king named...
A LIGHT IN THE NIGHT
Crack! Thunder fills the night. The rough sea rocks and tosses the ships sailing toward Alexandria, a city in Egypt. But the sailors are not worried. They can see in the distance the bright flames...
WHO’S ZEUS?
Thousands of years ago, people believed that a god named Zeus watched over the sky and the weather. A Greek sculptor and his men carved a statue of Zeus at a place called Olympia in Greece. No one...
HANGING GARDENS
A long time ago, King Nebuchadnezzar lived in a land called Babylonia. He married a beautiful princess from another land and brought her to Babylon, the capital of Babylonia. The new queen grew...
THE GREAT STONE TENT
Cheops was the name of a king in ancient Egypt who wanted a place to stay when he died. So, he ordered his men to build a huge stone house in the shape of a pyramid. A pyramid looks somewhat like an...
WHERE A GODDESS LIVED
Long ago, the people of Greece and Rome believed in many gods and goddesses. Stories, which we call myths, were made up about the gods and goddesses. These myths helped to explain the things in...
NO WONDER I’M A WONDER
I was once a statue named Colossus. I was macle of bronze. I stood beside the harbor of a small island called Rhodes in the Aegean Sea. I was twenty times taller than a man, and my thumb was so big...
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
If you stop to think about it, television, telephones, and jet planes are some of the wonders in our world today. Today, we know about seven wonders of the ancient world because men have found...