Wonders of The World

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• The Longest Natural Arch
• Manuscripts of a Bygone Age NEW
• Sanchi's Great Stupa
• The Brooklyn Bridge
• The Oldest Known Shipwreck
• A House Under The Ocean
• Telescope Atop a Volcano
• Britain's Treasure Trove
• The Dare-devils of La Quebrada
• The Chunnel
• The Tallest Living Things
• An Island Comes to life again
• The Skeleton Stretch
• The Glowing Caves
• The Great Shells
• The Mighty Corridor
• Drawings in the Sand
• The World's largest Flower
• The Swaying Minarets
• The Screaming Skull
• A Tower of Perfection!
• Ajanta
• World's Highest Capitals
• The Ziggurat of Ur
• The Oldest Footprints
• The smallest country
• Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum
• Mountain of Light
• A Piece from the Past
• Crop Circles
• Cleopatra’s Needle
• The Oldest Throne
• Giant Waves
• The Lord's Arch
• A Mad King's Dream Castle

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Cleopatra’s Needle

On the Thames Embankment in London there stands a massive granite column cut from a single piece of stone. It is known as Cleopatra’s Needle and is more than 3,500 years old! The column is one of two stone pillars built by the Egyptian ruler Thutmose III in 1475 B.C. for the temple of the sun-god at Helipolis near the present-day city of Cairo. The monument, in England since 1878, has ‘aged’ more in the last hundred years than it did during 3500 years of exposure in Egypt’s dry climate.

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Last updated on :8/2/2005