The Lighthouse of Alexandria was completed 280 BC. It stood 440 feet high and cold be seen form 35 miles out to sea. In 956 AD the lighthouse was damaged in an earthquake, and by 1480 AD it had been abandoned. The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue built on the Greek island of Rhodes between 292 and 280 BC. The statue was of the Greek Titan Helios and built to celebrate the victory over the ruder of Cyprus in 305 BC. The colossus stood for 56 years until it was destroyed by an earthquake. The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus was built in 351 BC as a tomb for the Persian Satrap Mauslos. The tomb was destroyed by a series of earthquakes and was completely dismantled by the Knights of St. John of Malta in 1494 AD. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, if
The mummification and secret burial of Rameses I now fell on Seti I. The tomb Rameses I had begun had to be finished in a hurry. Seti I and his son Rameses went with Rameses I’s mummified body to its secret burial place. Seti I used this time to pick out his own burial spot and construction began immediately.
The inner coffin was found lying on its back. It was created around 380 BC- 250 BC in the Ptolemaic Period meaning it’s
According to National Geographic's article on finding the remains of this warrior, the tomb found in 2015 is quite unusual. Excavators found this tomb while exploring a small stone shaft at Pylos. There lied a well preserved skeleton of a man in his thirties that was buried with over 1,400 artifacts that were on and around the body. The remains found dated to be around 1500 BC.
In 1923, excavators from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, led by Herbert E. Winlock (Museum Egyptologist), found fragments of statues belonging to the time of Hatshepsut when they began clearing the area in front of the temples of Hatshepsut and Mentuhotep II. As a result further excavations of this area were undertaken by the Metropolitan Museum during the seasons of 1926-27, 1927-28, and 1928-29. These excavations were predominantly carried out in two important locations: a depression southeast of Deir el-Bahri temple (also called the “Hatshepsut Hole”) and a quarry northeast of the temple. [1] The Metropolitan Museum crew started to reassemble these fragments and by 1931 the reconstructions were complete and offered a rather large collection of statues and objects from Hatshepsut’s temple. More statues have survived of Hatshepsut than any other Egyptian Pharaoh. Ironically, this was due to the destruction of these statues a mere twenty years after they were created.
Augustus of Primaporta is a marble statue of Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman empire, that was created in the 1st Century C.E. in Imperial Rome. It is freestanding and is made of marble. It shows a man in a “contrapposto pose”, wearing a military outfit and outstretching his right arm to address his troops. On the leg of the statue, there is a cupid figure riding on a dolphin. Lastly, on the breastplate, the statue has figures and messages connecting him to the gods.
The Lighthouse of Alexandria, or the Pharos of Alexandria, is often hailed as the first permanent lighthouse in existence, the archetype of every lighthouse since and was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
By an unknown artist, the sculpture is thought to date from the period 220 BC - 190 BC (though some scholars date it as early as 250 BC or as late as 180 BC). Her drapery serves to dramatically emphasize both her dynamic forward movement against the wind and her full, robust form-her powerful thighs and the active, contracted muscles of her torso. The drapery clings with thin, long, and uneven ripples to her breasts, abdomen, right leg, and left thigh, its near transparency revealing these parts of the body almost as if they were nude. Excess fabric forms heavy yet dynamically irregular shapes and bunches. A long, uneven arc of cloth between her legs accentuates their motion and implies the counter-force of the wind against her body. The sculptor draws attention to this downward arc with a swath of drapery that flies forward from the left hip and collides in a V-shape with the longer swath at the Nike’s pelvis. At the same time, in the back of the statue fabric soars out behind the figure in rigid crests. The effect of this drapery is choppy and uneven, the wind whipping the cloth as it does sea below into irregular peaks and troughs. A partial inscription on the base of the statue includes the word "Rhodhios" (Rhodes), indicating that the statue was commissioned to celebrate a naval
The Cape Lookout Lighthouse location is South Core Banks Cape Lookout, NC or Harkers island, NC 28531. They first opened up the lighthouse january 1, 1859. The Latitude is : 34 ,36’ 19.0” N. The Longitude is : 76 ,32’ 10.0” W. The first order lens was transferred from the old tower, which was later used as a residence for a few years. Most of the lenses were moved to and hidden at the capitol in Raleigh where they stayed until the end of the war. It took until 1863 to get to the cape looked back in service with a third-order Fresnel lens. Note that at the time, two towers stood at Cape Lookout with the 1859 lighthouse overshadowing its, inactive 1812 red-and-white-striped predecessor nearby. Cape Lookout’s strong light was greatly needed to
The Statue of liberty stands on an island in the New York City harbor. The people of France gave the statue to the United States. The French wanted to give a gift because of the freindship between the countries. France and the United States had became friends during the American Revolution. The Statue of Liberty took a long time to build. The French enginers had to find a way to make such a large statue. He used coper. Copper is not to heavy. On the outside, the statue is copper. Inside of the statue is a steal frame. Steel is heavy. The steel holds the copper up. The French brought their gift across the ocean in a large boat. There were 350 statue peices. These pieces were packed in 214 crates. Engineers and builders put the statue back together
The Temple of Athena Nike was built around 447-424 B.C.E. It was made in the southwest corner of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. This Temple was made of marble making it look classy and elegant for a goddess. Since Marble was such a rich material it was needed for a victor, which is why the temple was named Athena Nike. Nike means victory in the Greek language and Athena was the goddess of war and wisdom. The columns were made monolithic, so it was all made out of one big stone. The marble used was indigenous to the land in Athens, where it was made. In the frieze of the temple Athena is in a twisted perspective form, meaning she looks as if she could be moving but her shoulders are turned forward. However, most images in the frieze are ambiguous,
According to the Louvre Museum, the Winged Victory of Samothrace is a famous sculpture made by Pythokritos of Rhodes during 220-180 B.C. This masterpiece of the Hellenistic sculpture was made at the Sanctuary of the Cabros. The statue is made of white Paros marble and the boat and base grey with Rhodian white-veined marble. It is a representation of Niké, the Greek goddess of victory. In March 1863, during an expedition, a French amateur archaeologist called Charles Champoiseau found the sculpture in the island of Samothrace, in north-eastern Greece. He found the statue with some fragments of the original piece, all of them were sent to France for the restoration work that lasted three years. In 1875, an Austrian architect found some large
The poem “ The New Colossus 1883” by Emma Lazarus reveals key details about how the Statue
The Pharos Lighthouse is regularly described as “being breathtakingly large, having three levels, or tiers. The approach to its entrance was by way of a long ramp with vaulted arcades. Within, an apparently large spiral ramp led to some fifty service rooms and also allowed pack animals to bring firewood up to the third tier to feed the fire that acted as the light source”(Thiersch Chapter 4). Furthermore, based on Thiersch’s descriptions “the base was rectangular and said to be around 180ft high. The second level was octagonal and described as stretching another 90 feet into the air. The third and final tier was cylindrical and was recorded as 24 feet tall. This places the entire structure around 385 feet tall, or the same as a modern building with 40 stories” (Chapter 4). This means the lighthouse could probably be seen from around 50 kilometers away!
The Colossus of Rhodes was an extraordinary statue statue of the sun god Helios, which was built around 280 B.C., at the harbor on the Island of Rhodes (hence the name). It was built after the celebrated victory over a war with Demetrius the Besieger, after a year of hard work, and it is considered their greatest military victory.
The building of the Coloseum began around 72 AD. under the supervision of the emperor Vespasian. Though he did not live to see his greatest accomplishment, his son Titus, completed his father’s dream around 80 AD.