AIR UNIVERSITYMULTAN

YASIR ALI KHAN

MUHAMMAD ARIF

HASSAN ZAKI GARDUZI

Air University Multan

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1. The Great Pyramid Of Egypt2. The hanging Garden Of Babylon3. The Statue Of Zeus at Olympia4. The Temple Of Artemis at Ephesus5. The Mausoleum Of Halicarnassus6. Colossus Of Rhodes7. Lighthouse Of Alexandria

7 Wonders of the Ancient World

The Great Pyramid

Also known as Pyramid Khufu

Oldest of the seven wonders of Ancient

Took 20years to built around 2560 B.C.

Was the tallest manmade structure for

3800 years.

The largest granite stone in the pyramid was weight 25 to 80 tons.

The Hanging Garden

Built in the ancient city state of Babylon In Iraq.

The gardens were supposedly built by the Babylonian king around 600 BC.

He is reported to have constructed the gardens to please his homesick wife, Amities of media.

The gardens were destroyed by several earth- quakes after the 2nd century BC.

The Hanging Garden

The Statue of Zeus

The statue of Zeus at Olympiawas made by the Greek

Sculptor “PHIDIAS” around 432 BC.

The Zeus was made of ivory and Gold plated bronze.

The copy in marble or bronze

Has survived.

The Temple of Artemis

Temple of Diana.

In the seventhcentury the old

temple was destroyed by a

flood.

Its reconstruction began around 550 BC.

The Mausoleum was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey)

The Mausoleum

The structure was designed by the Greek architects Satyros and Pythis.

Reconstruction of the Mausoleum, 1908

the Mausoleum's 45 m (148 ft) height.

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The Mausoleum

Colossus of Rhodes

The statue itself was over 30 meters (107 ft) tall

After twelve years, in 280 BC, the statue was completed.

After that it was first proposed in 1970 but, due to lack of funding, work has not yet started.

it would not have remained visible on land for the next 800 years,

Lighthouse of Alexandria

Lighthouse was completedin 3rd century B.C.

After the death of Alexander the great , Ptolemy Scoterannounced himself kingin 305 B.C and commissionedits construction shortly thereafter.

The building is square about 8.5 meters each side.

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