Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Ancient 7 wonders


1. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which were built on the banks of the Euphrates river by King Nebuchadnezzar II.

2. Temple of Artemis
The temple of Artemis was erected in the Asia Minor city of Ephesus in honor of the Greek goddess of hunting and wild nature.

3.Statue of Zeus
The gigantic gold statue of Zeus was built by the sculptor Pheidias at Olympia.

4.Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was a huge tomb constructed for King Maussollos, Persian satrap of Caria.

5.Colossus of Rhodes
The Colossus of Rhodes was a massive statue erected by the Greeks in honor of Helios the sun-god.

6.Lighthouse of Alexandria
The Lighthouse of Alexandria was built by the Ptolemies on the island of Pharos.

7.Great Pyramid of Giza

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the World that still survives. The Great Pyramid of Giza was built near the ancient city of Memphis for Pharaoh Khufu in the period of the Fourth Dynasty, between 2613 and 2494BC. The Greeks referred to it as the Pyramid of Cheops. A true wonder, it is immense: according to Mysteries of the Unknown, it covers a ground area of 13.1 acres (32,4 hectares), composed of some 2.3 million limestone blocks average two-and-a-half tonnes each, enough stone to build a wall of foot-square cubes two-thirds around the globe at the equator, a distance of 16,600 miles (26 500km).
The oldest statue in the world is the Great Sphinx of Egypt. Carved out of limestone, it stands 65 ft (19,8 metres) high and is 240 ft (73 metres) long.

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