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Podcast: History Unplugged Podcast
Episode: The 7 Wonders of the Ancient World Were Colossal, Prone to Destruction, and Not All May Have Existed
Description: For millennia, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have been known for their aesthetic sublimity, ingenious engineering, and sheer, audacious magnitude: The Great Pyramids of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Zeus, the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse at Alexandria. Echoing down time, each of these persists in our imagination as an emblem of the glory of antiquity, but beneath the familiar images is a surprising, revelatory history.Guiding us through it is today’s guest, Bettany Hughes, author of “The Seven Wonders of the Anci...