The 8th Wonder of the Ancient World

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

You have one wonder to add to the original seven wonders of the ancient world. Which one are you going for?

[Will9]

The first Temple of Solomen.

[Locutus]

The Great Wall.

[Cort Haus]

Stonehenge, for longevity and mystery.

[Drake Tungsten]

The Great Wall.

The Great Wall was a POS in ancient times.

[Wernazuma III]

The Cloaca Maxima.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
The Great Wall was a POS in ancient times.

That's a bit of an exaggeration. Yes, the Qin Wall wasn't nearly as impressive as the Ming one, most of it was barely more than an earthen wall. But it was still by far the largest man-made structure in surface area and mass at the time, stretching for thousands of kilometers and requiring many tens of thousands of labourers to build and thousands of soldiers to guard. It's construction and existence had a profound impact on the entire region.

[Kuciwalker]

The Apollo Program

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Stonehenge, for longevity and mystery.

Meh. Purists go for Avebury. It's a lot bigger and was actually built by the megalithic culture, whereas Stonehenge in its last incarnation appears to have been a Beaker-culture copycat.

[Drake Tungsten]

Yes, the Qin Wall wasn't nearly as impressive as the Ming one, most of it was barely more than an earthen wall.

A wall of stamped earth is pretty lame, no matter how long it was. Hadrian's Wall was more impressive...

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I'm going for the Marib Dam, and irrigation network.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma'rib_Dam

It irrigated 100 square kilometres of desert, and propped up the Saba'a culture (the pre-eminent Arabic culture before the rise of Islam).

[Guynemer]

Depends on what definition of "ancient" we're using.

I've always been fascinated by Petra, for instance, but is it truly ancient?

[Nostromo]

Sodom or Gomorrah. Take your pick. The orginal Sin Cities

[Az]

considering the fact that they most likely were two small villages in the desert where people really enjoyed buggering each other, I harldy think that they are candidates...

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Guynemer

I've always been fascinated by Petra, for instance, but is it truly ancient?

Yes. Originally built by Nabateans in the 1st century BC, important traders in the region. Later occupied by Romans which added more buildings, but those nice buildings carved directly into the rocks are from the Nabatean period.

Heresson had some cool pics from Petra in his ME picture thread. I have been there too several yrs ago, it's really cool