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 writings, drawings, and pieces of them.
What did people think was so wonderful long ago— and why did they
think so? You can find out in the next pages.
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…
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…
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…
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…
