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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The Great Pyramid of Giza (also called the Pyramid of Khufu and the Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and the only one that has survived up until the present day.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, known as the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis, near present-day Al Hillah, Babil in Iraq, are one of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. They were built by King Nebuchadnezzar II around 600 BC. He supposedly constructed the gardens to please his homesick wife, Amytis of Media, who longed for the trees and plants of her homeland Persia. The gardens were destroyed by several earthquakes in the 2nd century BC.
Temple of Artemis, also known as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to Artemis and completed around 550 BC in Ephesus (present-day Turkey). The construction of the temple was a 120-year project financed by Croesus of Lydia.
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was made by the Greek sculptor Phidias in 432 BC on a site near the Temple of Zeus in Olympia, Greece, where it was finally erected. According to a legend, when Phidias was asked whether he climbed Mount Olympus to see Zeus, or whether Zeus came down from Olympus so that Phidias could see him, the artist answered that he portrayed Zeus according to Book One, verses 528 — 530 of Homer's Iliad.
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus was built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a satrap in the Persian Empire. The word mausoleum has since been used generically for any grand tomb.
The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue of the Greek god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes on the Greek island of Rhodes.
The Lighthouse of Alexandria (or the Pharos of Alexandria) was a tower built in the 3rd century BC on the island of Pharos in Alexandria, Egypt, to serve as the port's landmark and later, its lighthouse.
