Donerveen’s Walls By Alyssa Nystrom Katie Woodriff

The Eighth Wonder Introduction The people of Cyprus were in love with the unique designs and features of the seven wonders of the world. The people of Cyprus however had a difficult time visiting the wonders, their country was far away from the main land located in the middle of the Mediterranean sea. Since they could not easily see the wonders they wanted the wonders brought to them.

Cyprus is an island that can be found in the middle of the final third of the Mediterranean Sea.

The Story They issued an order for all the seven wonders to be destroyed and rebuilt in their home country of Cyprus. As you might have guessed this order didn’t go over to well with the neighboring countries, so they denied Cyprus’ orders and banned anyone from Cyprus from seeing the wonders.

Part 1 The people of Cyprus were furious! they were going to get back at all the people who denied them their demand! They decided to build an eighth wonder that had characteristics from every one of the seven wonders of the world. Then after constructing this building they would destroy the remaining wonders so that people would ask them to see the last remaining wonder.

P1 Continued The people of Cyprus began to build this amazing wonder, the construction took place right next to the Ezousas river. This way, the building would be able to incorporate water and have mountains as a phenomenal scenery. The construction took over three decades to complete, and they did all of this in secrecy for they shut themselves away from the outside world.

Location

Terrain The terrain in which Donerveen’s Walls sits upon is a small plain surrounded by the rugged Troodos Mountains who’s range stretches from the Pomos Point in the north west almost to Larnaca Bay toward the east. Donerveen’s Walls faces the southern boarder of Cyprus and on its western edge lies the Ezousas River whose water runs from the Troodos Mountains to the Mediterranean Sea

Part 2 The people of Cyprus decided to name the wonder Donerveen’s Walls as a secret disguise incase information should leak out and the neighboring countries get suspicious. Donerveen’s Walls is just letters of a simple title scrambled up… what might that simple title be? The title is “All Seven Wonders”.

When the ‘wonder’ was finally built many people of Cyprus went to other countries in secret. They successfully destroyed all the seven wonders except for the Pyramids of Giza. The other countries decided to make stories up to disguise their disgrace for not protecting their wonders. Some stories were as lame as… “an earthquake knocked it down”

The people of Cyprus were very superstitious at the time. They believed in a goddess named Atisskatyla’e who was against dishonoring important people of history. So the people, before destroying the wonders, took any dead person from the sight that they thought was important during the wonders construction. Like I said, they successfully did this to all the seven wonders except for the Pyramids, but even though they did not destroy the wonder they did take king Kufu back with them.

At the eighth wonder they had built a secret underground ‘grave yard’ underneath the wonder so if any countries tried to accuse Cyprus for taking men and women from their graves they could show them the wonder and no one would ever know that they were buried underground.

outside

inside

Graphs This first graph shows the amount of area Donerveen’s Walls take up out of the total amount of area of Cyprus. This second graph shows Donerveen’s Walls in comparison to three other massive buildings

Eighth Wonder Conclusion At the end of this mayhem though, the people of Cyprus regretted ever destroying the wonders. So on top of Donerveen’s Walls sits a light house, whose light breaks into seven beams pointing in the direction of the sites where the seven wonders should be standing.