Finding Eight Wonder Of World

Editorials News | Aug-19-2019

Finding Eight Wonder Of World

New wonders have been suggested by people, calling it the eighth wonder of the world. California’s Burney Falls was the eighth wonder, said President Teddy Roosevelt. In a nod to its use as a marketing trope, the 1933 film King Kong even shows the great ape being hawked as the eighth wonder of the world.
Let’s see the claimed eight wonders-
1. Pink and White Terraces, New Zealand
The historic terraces on opposite sides of Lake Rotomahana on New Zealand’s North Island have once represented the largest formations of silica sinter in the world. The terraces were pink somewhere and white in some parts. In the early 1880s, these terraces were used to be a popular tourist destination, and known as the eighth wonder of the world.
They got “lost” in 1886 when a volcanic eruption covered them. In 2017, researchers claimed that the terraces had survived and were simply buried by the explosion. But the next year, it has been found that the white terraces had been destroyed, and that although the pink terraces were partially-intact and no one can see them. There is, however, still an eighth wonder in New Zealand.
2. Terra-Cotta Army, China
For the tomb of China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, artists designed thousands of statues of soldiers, horses and chariots to accompany him into the afterlife. While trying to dig a well in 1974, workers outside the city of Xi’an in Shaanxi Province discovered some of these statues. Since then, a selected group of statues have appeared in museums around the world.
The army is considered an artistic marvel. When crafting the soldiers out of terra-cotta, or fired clay, ancient artisans gave them different facial features. The high level of craftsmanship on such a large scale has made it to describe it as the eighth wonder of the world.
3. Banaue Rice Terraces, The Philippines
The Ifugao people carved a series of rice terraces more than 2,000 years ago, onto the mountains of Banaue, a region on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. These terraces resemble like steps stretching across 4,000 square miles of mountainside, and were also the part of a system of irrigation that the Ifugao people used to grow rice in early century. Tourism promoters have been calling the rice terraces the eighth wonder of the world at least as far back as 1979.
5. Angkor Wat, Cambodia
An enormous monument was built by, the Khmer empire in the early 12th century at its capital of Angkor that monument, called Angkor Wat, was originally a Hindu temple. By the end of the century it had transitioned into a Buddhist temple, and remained so for several centuries. Today, the monument is one of Cambodia’s most significant archaeological monuments. Some travel websites have dubbed Angkor Wat the eighth wonder; and in 2007, it was one of 21 finalists for a New Seven Wonders of the World list.
These were some of the claimed eight wonders of the world.

By: Saksham Gupta
Content: https://www.history.com/news/eighth-wonder-of-the-world-7-ancient-wonders


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