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Petra • LocationMa'an Governorate, JordanCoordinates30°19′43″N 35°26′31″E / 30.32861°N 35.44194°E / 30.32861; 35.44194Coordinates: 30°19′43″N 35°26′31″E / 30.32861°N 35.44194°E / 30.32861; 35.44194Elevation810 m (2,657 ft)Builtpossibly as early as 309 BC[citation needed]Visitation580,000 (in 2007)Governing body • Established possibly as early as 312 BCE as the capital city of the Nabataeans,[1] it is a symbol of Jordan, as well as Jordan's most-visited tourist attraction.[2] It lies on the slope of Jebel al-Madhbah (identified by some as the biblical Mount Hor[3]) in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah (WadiAraba), the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. Petra has been a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site since 1985.
Tajmahal • The TajMahal is a white marble mausoleum located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, MumtazMahal. Wikipedia • Address: आगरा, उत्तरप्रदेश 282001, India • Height: 171 m • Architectural style: Mughal architecture • Architects: Ustad Ahmad Lahouri, Ustad Isa • Burials: ArjumandBanu, Shah Jahan • Function: Monument, Mausoleum
The Great Pyramid of Giza, • The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact. Wikipedia • Address: ش الهرم, القاهرة, Egypt • Construction started: 2584 BC • Height: 139 m • Architects: Khufu, Imhotep, Hemiunu • Function: Monument, Tomb • Architectural styles: Pyramid, Ancient Egyptian architecture
The Colosseum • The Colosseum or Coliseum, also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy. Wikipedia • Address: Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma, Italy • Construction started: 70 AD • Area: 2 ha • Opened: 80 AD • Function: Amphitheatre • Architectural style: Ancient Roman architecture • Architects: Vespasian, Titus
The Great Wall of China • The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China in part to protect the Chinese Empire or its prototypical states against intrusions by various nomadic groups or military incursions by various warlike peoples or forces. Several walls were being built as early as the 7th century BC;[3] these, later joined together and made bigger and stronger, are now collectively referred to as the Great Wall.[4] Especially famous is the wall built between 220–206 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. Little of that wall remains. Since then, the Great Wall has on and off been rebuilt, maintained, and enhanced; the majority of the existing wall was reconstructed during the Ming Dynasty.
Hagiasophia • Hagia Sophia (from the Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, "Holy Wisdom"; Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia; Turkish: Ayasofya) is a former Greek Orthodoxpatriarchalbasilica (church), later an imperial mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its construction in 537 until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodoxcathedral and seat of the Patriarchate of Constantinople,[1] except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931. It was then secularized and opened as a museum on 1 February 1935.[2]
