4 edition of Seven wonders of Ancient Asia found in the catalog.
Seven wonders of Ancient Asia
Woods, Michael
Published
2009
by Twenty-First Century Books in Minneapolis
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Written in
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-78) and index.
| Statement | Michael Woods and Mary B. Woods. |
| Genre | Juvenile literature |
| Series | Seven wonders |
| Contributions | Woods, Mary B. 1946- |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | DS10 .W65 2009 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 80 p. : |
| Number of Pages | 80 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL23619862M |
| ISBN 10 | 9780822575696 |
| LC Control Number | 2007040824 |
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A timeline, a glossary, a selected bibliography, and source notes conclude the volume, along with a challenge for readers to choose an “eighth wonder” of ancient Asia. The six other books in the Seven Wonders series spotlight sites in other regions of the ancient world.
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Ancient Asia Minor is a geographic region located in the south-western part of Asia comprising most of what is present-day earliest reference to the region comes from tablets of the Akkadian Dynasty ( BCE) where it is known as 'The Land of the Hatti' and was inhabited by the Hittites.
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The new Fleetwood Mac collection '50 Years – Don’t Stop' is available now.Similarly, given the seven modern wonders (which are much more geographically diverse, including locations in Asia and the Americas), it is quite hard to imagine what it would mean that they lie on a helix, and even harder to imagine what it would mean to say that together they formed a double helix.
To his credit, I think Mezrich realized that.In that sense it was taken over by the Dorian Greeks when they settled in the Dodecanese and south-west Asia Minor about BC, and so it was originally applied to Chares' statue of Helios.
After the creation of that statue, however, and its inclusion amongst the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the word came to be restricted to gigantic.
