Eighth Wonder of the World

[nukisl]

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[DJ.Parker]

whoaaaa!!!!! an aerial pic:cool:

[sridanu]

yep thats true. Its a world Heritage site.

[nukisl]

yehhhhaaaa

[Nishantha Withanage]

Wooow How Nice We are proud to be srilanka

[DJAT]

wow Srilankan proude.nice and cool pic..grass and tree colour is supper nice

[ywicky]

Sigiriya!

[nadeeraroshan]

:cool: :cool: http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/289/382ju6.jpg

[OscarNonis]

Sorry - This is wrong.

Once Dr. Arthur C. Clark reccomended/suggested Sigiriya as a 8th wonder of the world.

Unfortunately no one accepted.

[chamil_dil]

ohhhhhhh

[Clerk_Kent]

PROUD TO BE SRILANKAN....Yeah...!!!:yes: :yes:

[BRAINY]

Sorry - This is wrong.

Once Dr. Arthur C. Clark reccomended/suggested Sigiriya as a 8th wonder of the world.

Unfortunately no one accepted.

Unfortunately Yes.. :no: :no: :angry:

[BRAINY]

8th Wonder of the World - The possibilities

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Eighth Wonder of the World is a term sometimes used to describe things in comparison to the Seven Wonders of the World, the widely-known list of seven remarkable constructions of classical antiquity. These possibilities are pre 1900 human creations:

SIGIRIYA, SRI LANKA
Sigiriya is an archeological site in Central Sri Lanka. It contains the ruins of an ancient palace complex, built during the reign of King Kasyapa (477 ? 495 AD). It is one of the seven World Heritage Sites in Sri Lanka and is one of its most popular tourist destinations.

Sigiriya may have been inhabited through prehistoric times. It was used as a rock-shelter mountain monastery from about the 3rd century BC, with caves prepared and donated by devotees to the Buddhist Sangha. The garden and palace were built by Kasyapa. Following Kasyapa`s death, it was again a monastery complex up to about the 14th century, after which it was abandoned. The ruins were discovered in 1907 by British Explorer John Still. The Sigiri inscriptions were deciphered by the famed archeologist Paranavithana who published a renowned two volume work, published by Oxford, known as `Sigiri Graffiti`. He also wrote the popular book `Story of Sigiriya`.


HAGIA SOPHIA, ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Hagia Sophia, now known as the Ayasofya Museum, was an early Christian Church and later an Eastern Orthodox church which was transformed into a mosque in 1453 by the Turks, and converted into a museum in 1935. It is located in Istanbul, Turkey, on the Turkish Thrace. It is regularly considered one of the greatest and most beautiful buildings in history. Its conquest by the Ottomans at the fall of Constantinople is considered one of the great tragedies of Christianity by the Greek Orthodox faithful.

The name comes from the Greek name meaning `Church of the Holy Wisdom of God`. It is also known as Sancta Sophia in Latin and Ayasofya in Turkish. Although it is sometimes called `Saint Sophia` in English, it is not named after a saint named Sophia ? the Greek word sophia means `wisdom.`

It was constructed in five years, from 532 to 537, at the orders of Emperor Justinian I and designed by Isidore of Miletus.

TERRACOTA ARMY, CHINA
The Terracotta Army or Terracotta Warriors and Horses is a collection of 8,099 life-size Chinese terra cotta figures of warriors and horses located near the Mausoleum of the First Qin. The figures were discovered in 1974 near Xi`an, Shaanxi province, China.

The Terracotta Army was buried with the first Emperor of Qin (Qin Shi Huangdi) in 210-209 BC (his reign over Qin was from 247 BC to 221 BC and over unified China from 221 BC to his death). Their purpose was to help rule another empire with Shi Huangdi in the afterlife. Consequently, they are also sometimes referred to as `Qin`s Armies`.

The Terracotta Army was discovered in March 1974 by local farmers drilling a water well to the east of Mount Lishan. Mount Lishan is also where the material to make the terracotta warriors originated. In addition to the warriors, an entire man made necropolis for the emperor has been excavated

Construction of this mausoleum began in 246 BC and is believed to have taken 700,000 workers and craftsmen 38 years to complete

MACHU PICHCHU, PERU
Machu Picchu (Quechua: Machu Piqchu Old Peak; sometimes called the `Lost City of the Incas`) is a pre-Columbian city created by the Inca. It is located at 2,430 m (7,970 ft) on a mountain ridge. Machu Picchu is located above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, about 70 km (44 mi) northwest of Cusco. Forgotten for centuries by the outside world, although not by locals, it was brought back to international attention by archaeologist Hiram Bingham who rediscovered it in 1911, and wrote a best-selling work about it. Peru is pursuing legal efforts to retrieve thousands of artifacts that Bingham removed from the site.

GREAT WALL OF CHINA
The Great Wall of China is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China, built, rebuilt, and maintained between the 5th century BC and the 16th century to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire during the rule of successive dynasties. Several walls, referred to as the Great Wall of China, were built since the 5th century BC, the most famous being the one built between 220 BC and 200 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. That wall was much further north than the current wall, built during the Ming Dynasty, and little of it remains.
The Great Wall is one of the existing megastructures and the world`s longest human-made structure, stretching over approximately 6,400 km (4,000 miles) from Shanhai Pass in the east to Lop Nur in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia.

ROYAL PALACE, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
The Royal Palace in Amsterdam (Koninklijk Paleis te Amsterdam in Dutch) is one of three palaces in the Netherlands which is at the disposal of Queen Beatrix by Act of Parliament. It is situated in the west side of Dam Square in the centre of Amsterdam, opposite the War Memorial and next to the Nieuwe Kerk.

It was built by Jacob van Campen, who took control of the construction project in 1648, as the Town Hall for the City of Amsterdam, and was built on 13,659 wooden piles and cost 8,5 million gulden. A yellowish sandstone from Bentheim in Germany was used for the entire building (the stone has darkened considerably in the course of time), while only marble was considered good enough for the interior.

Jacob van Campen was inspired by Roman administrative palaces. He drew inspiration from the public buildings of Rome, so he wanted to build a new Capitol was for the Amsterdam burgomasters who thought of themselves as the consuls of the new Rome of the North. The glory of the Dutch Republic in general and the city of Amsterdam in particular yielded the most important historic and cultural monument of 17th century Holland. The technical implementation was looked after by the town construction master Daniël Stalpaert. The sculptures ware made by Artus Quellijn.