8th Wonder Of The World 1973 Building

Inhabited for thousands of years, the strikingly beautiful desert city of Petra, Jordan was once home to a civilization long since vanished. Petra's location between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea made it an important center for commerce, where Arabian incense, Chinese silks, and Indian spices were traded. Jazzpunk demo. The buildings reflect a welcoming of cultures, combining native Eastern traditions with Western architecture from. Noted by UNESCO as 'half-built, half-carved into the rock,' this capital city also had a sophisticated system of dams and channels for collecting, diverting, and providing water to the arid region.

The Great Pyramid of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Temple of Artemis are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The eighth wonder is a term that describes other equally amazing phenomena.