Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2024-06-22
Books mentioned on Selects: How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Work, Part I
Long before slide rulers and pocket protectors, civilizations across the world used their noggins to build some impressive structures. Almost all have crumbled to ruins over the millennium, but thanks to the earliest tourists, we admire them still today.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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History
Discussed“And then there's another guy, Herodotus, he was a historian from Greece; he wrote basically a monograph on Babylon a hundred years after Nebuchadnezzar, and he didn't mention the Hanging Gardens at all.”
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Bible
The Bible is a foundational collection of sacred texts central to Judaism and Christianity, comprising narratives of law, history, prophecy, and poetry.
Discussed“I did see that Ephesus was an important city in the Bible because I think Paul came and was preaching there and started a riot because everybody's like, 'Oh man, your God sounds so great that it's going to undermine our Emis, and our local economy is going to fall to pieces.'”
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