May 23, 2012

An ancient Greek historian named Diodorus Siculus once wrote about a massive obelisk in Babylonia. He called it one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. What happened to it? Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: The Lost Obelisk of Babylonia? From 60 to 30 BC, Diodorus wrote his Bibliotheca historica, a gigantic forty-book collection…