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Seven Wonders

The Seven Wonders  Of The Ancient World

 

1. The Pyramids of Egypt.  

2. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

3. The Tomb of Mausolus, King of Caria.

4. The Temple of Diana of Ephesus. 

 5. The Colossus at Rhodes.  

6. The Gold and Ivory statue of Jupiter Olympus.

7. The Pharos (lighthouse) at Alexandria.

 

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The Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid-shaped masonry structures located in Egypt. As of November 2008, sources cite either 118 or 138 as the number of identified Egyptian pyramids. Most were built as tombs for the country's pharaohs and their consorts during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods.

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The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World as listed by Hellenic culture, described as a remarkable feat of engineering with an ascending series of tieredgardens containing a wide variety of trees, shrubs, and vines, resembling a large green mountain constructed of mud bricks, ...

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The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus (Ancient Greek: Turkish: Halikarnas Mozolesi) was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a satrap in the Persian Empire, and his sister-wife Artemisia II of Caria.
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The Temple of Artemis or Artemision, also known less precisely as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, local form of the goddess Artemis. It was located in Ephesus. It was completely rebuilt three times, and in its final form was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

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The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue of the Greek sun-god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC.
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The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was a giant seated figure, about 13 m (43 ft) tall, made by the Greek sculptor Phidias around 435 BC at the sanctuary of Olympia, Greece, and erected in the Temple ofZeus there. A sculpture of ivory plates and gold panels over a wooden framework, 

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It was a technological triumph and is the archetype of all lighthouses since. ... The lighthouse stood on the island of Pharos in the harbour of Alexandria and is said to have been more than 350 feet (110 metres) high; the only taller man-made structures at the time would have been the pyramids of Giza.

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