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The Original 7 Wonders of the World

The Great Pyramid of Giza • Known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops. • The oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza

Necropolis. • The Great Pyramid consists of an estimated 2.3 million

limestone blocks with most believed to have been transported from nearby quarries.

The Colossus of Rhodes • Was a statue of the Greek Titan Helios, erected

in the city of Rhodes on the Greek island of Rhodes by Chares of Lindos between 292 and 280 BC.

• Describe the structure as being built with iron tie bars to which brass plates were fixed to form the skin.

• The interior of the structure, which stood on a 15 meter (50 foot) high white marble pedestal near the Mandraki harbor entrance, was then filled with stone blocks as construction progressed.

The Hanging Tower of Babylon • They were purportedly built in the

ancient city-state of Babylon. • the gardens to please his homesick wife

Amytis of Media, who longed for the plants of her homeland.

Temple of Artemis • known less precisely as the

Temple of Diana • The first sanctuary

(temenos) antedated the Ionic immigration by many years, and dates to the Bronze Age

Statue of Zeus at Olympia • made of ivory and gold-

plated bronze • created by the Greek

sculptor Phidias • 39 feet tall: occupied half

of the width of the aisle of the temple built to house it

Lighthouse of Alexandria • was built between 280 and 247 BC on the island of Pharos at Alexandria, Egypt. • Its purpose was to guide seamen into the port of Alexandria. • Height between 393 and 450 ft (120 and 140 m),

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus • was built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) • for Mausolus, a satrap in the Persian Empire, • and Artemisia II of Caria, who was both his wife and his sister. • was designed by the Greek architects Satyros and Pythius of Priene.