The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

--Built around 600 BC --Built by Babylonians -- multi-levelled gardens reaching (75 feet)

high complete with machinery for circulating water. Large trees grew on the roof.

--Built by Nebuchadnezzar II for his wife Amytis of Media.

--destroyed after 1st century BC by earthquake in Iraq

Hanging Gardens at Babylon

--Built by Egyptians between 2584-2561 BC. --Built as the tomb for Pharaoh Khufu --Still in existence in Giza, Egypt --the pyramid is as tall as a 45 story

building

Great Pyramid of Giza

Built around 550 B.C. by the Lydians, Persians, Greeks in Turkey

Dedicated to the Greek goddess Artemis and took 120 years to build

Burned down by Herostratus to achieve lasting fame (356 B.C.)

Rebuilt by Alexander the Great and burned down again by the Goths (AD 262)

377' long and 151' wide, supposedly the first Greek temple built of marble. Its columns stood some 40 feet high.

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

Built by Greeks from 466-456 B.C. 40 feet tall Only wonder to be moved from original

location. Destroyed between 5th and 6th century AD

by fire Was located in Olympia, Greece

Statue of Zeus at Olympia

Built around 351 B.C. by Persians and Greeks

Stood 150 feet high the tomb built for Mausolus, a satrap in the

Persian Empire. Destroyed by flood and earthquake in

Turkey

Mausoleum of Halicarnassus

Built in Rhodes, Greece in 292-280 BC by the Greeks

A giant statue of the Greek god Helios, god of the sun, c. 35 m (110 ft) tall.

Destroyed by an earthquake in 226 BC

Colossus of Rhodes

Built in Alexandria c. 280 BC in Hellenistic Egypt, (Greeks)

Between (380 – 440 ft) high, it was among the tallest structures on Earth for many centuries.

The name of the island that it was built on, Pharos, eventually became the Latin word for lighthouse, pharos.

Destroyed by earthquake AD 1303-1480

Lighthouse of Alexandria