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 The Seven Wonders of the World (or the

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) isa widely-known list of seven remarkableconstructions of classical antiquity. Itwas based on guide-books popular

among Hellenic sight-seers and onlyincludes works located around theMediterranean rim. Later lists includethose for the Medieval World and the

Modern World. 

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Wonder Date Builder Destroyed Cause

Great Pyramid of Giza2650-2500 BC

Egyptiansstillstanding

N/A

Hanging Gardens of Babylon 600 BC Babyloniansafter 1stcentury BC

earthquake

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus 550 BCLydians,Persians, Greeks

356 BC fire

Statue of Zeus at Olympia 435 BC Greeks5th-6thcenturies AD

fire

Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus351 BC Persians, Greeks by 1494 ADearthquake

Colossus of Rhodes292-280BC

Hellenistic Greece 224 BCearthquake

Lighthouse of Alexandria3rdcenturyBC

Hellenistic Egypt 1303-1480AD

earthquake

 

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The Hanging Gardens of 

Babylon (also known as

Hanging Gardens of 

Semiramis) and the walls of 

Babylon (present-day Iraq)

were considered one of the

Seven Wonders of the World.

They were both supposedly built by Nebuchadnezzar II 

around 600 BC.

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Some circumstantial evidencegathered at the excavation of the palace at Babylon hasaccrued, but does notcompletely substantiate whatlook like fanciful descriptions. Through the ages, the locationmay have been confused with

gardens that existed atNineveh, since tablets fromthere clearly show gardens.Writings on these tabletsdescribe the possible use of something similar to anArchimedes' screw as a processof raising the water to therequired height.

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Hanging Garden, Assyrian 

interpretationA hanging garden,

21st century 

interpretation

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 Babylon is the Greek variant of  Akkadian 

 Babilu (bāb-ilû ,or  Bab-Eili, meaning "Gateway of the

 god(s)", translating 

Sumerian Kadingirra),an ancient city inMesopotamia (modern

 Al Hillah , Iraq ). 

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It was the "holy city" of Babylonia from around

2300 BC, and the seat of theNeo-Babylonian Empire from 612 BC. In theOld Testament , the name appears as לבב ( Babel ),interpreted by Genesis 11:9 to mean "confusion",from the verb balal, "to confuse". Babylon is theGreek variant of  Akkadian Babilu (bāb-ilû,or Bab-

Eili, meaning "Gateway of the god(s)", translatingSumerian Kadingirra), an ancient city inMesopotamia (modern Al Hillah, Iraq ). It was the"holy city" of Babylonia from around 2300 BC, andthe seat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from612 BC. In the Old Testament , the name appears

as לבב ( Babel ), interpreted by Genesis 11:9 tomean "confusion", from the verb balal, "toconfuse".

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