Monday, 6 April 2015

list-of-seven-wonders-of-ancient-world

list-of-seven-wonders-of-ancient-world



  • Hanging Garden of Babylon
    The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one whose location has not been definitely established.Traditionally they were said to have been built in the ancient city of Babylon, near present-day HillahBabil province, in Iraq. The Babylonian priest Berossus, writing in about 290 BC and.......
                 
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  • Temple of Diana at Ephesus(Rome)
    The Temple of Diana in ancient Rome was a Roman temple which, according to the early semi-legendary history of Rome, was built in the 6th century BC during the reign of the king Servius Tullius. According to Livy, word had come to Rome of the .......................

  • Statue of Jupiter at Olympia
    The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was a giant seated figure, about 42 ft (13 m) tall,made by the Greek sculptor Phidias around 435 BC at the sanctuary of Olympia, Greece, and erected in the Temple of Zeus there.........................

  • Pyramids of Egypt
    The Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid-shaped masonry structures located in Egypt.
    As of November 2008, there are sources citing both 118 and 138 as the number of identified .....

  • Mausoleum of Mausolus(Ruler of Halicarnasus)
    The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present BodrumTurkey) for Mausolus, a satrap in the Persian Empire, and Artemisia II of Caria, who was both his wife and his sister. The structure was designed.......
  • Light house of AlexandriaThe Lighthouse of Alexandria, sometimes called the Pharos of Alexandria was a tower built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom between 280 and 247 BC which was between 393 and 450 ft (120 and 137 m) tall. It was one of the tallest man-made structures in the world for many centuries, and was regarded as.......................

  • Colossus of at Rhodes(912 ft high statue of Helos, the Sun God)The Colossus of Rhodes  was a statue of the Greek titan-god of the sun Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC. It is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was constructed to celebrate Rhodes' victory over.........................




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