Saturday, November 5, 2011

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World...Chersiphron & Son worked on one--Temple of Artemis at Ephesus


An ancient engineering firm worked successfully in the construction of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The engineers used inclined planes, bags of sand and shafts of columns and architraves as wheels and axels.

A short paper by Amelia Sparavigna.

"Chersiphron & Son Engineers" by Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

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