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The traditional list was made by Philo of Byzantium, and written in 225 BC in his work "On the Seven Wonders".
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| x Great Pyramid of Giza |
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2561 B.C.E. | Ancient Egypt | Hemon |
The Great Pyramid of Giza (also called the Pyramid of Khufu and Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now Cairo, Egypt, and is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient...
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| x Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
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562 B.C.E. | Babylonia | Nebuchadrezzar II |
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, also known as the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis, near present-day Al Hillah, Babil in Iraq, are considered to be one of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. They were built by the Chaldean king...
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| x Statue of Zeus at Olympia |
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435 B.C.E. | Ancient Greece | Phidias |
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was made by the Greek sculptor Phidias, circa 432 BC on the site where it was erected in the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Greece. It was considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. For six hundred years...
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| x Temple of Artemis |
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550 B.C.E. | Lydia |
The Temple of Artemis (Greek: Ἀρτεμίσιον Artemision), also known less precisely as Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to Artemis completed— in its most famous phase— around 550 BC at Ephesus (in present-day Turkey). Though the monument...
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| x Mausoleum of Maussollos |
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351 C.E. | Ancient Greece | Pythis |
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Mausoleum of Mausolus or Tomb of Mausolus (in Greek, Μαυσωλεῖον της Ἁλικαρνασσοῦ) was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a satrap in the Persian Empire, and...
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| x Colossus of Rhodes |
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280 B.C.E. | Ancient Greece | Chares of Lindos |
The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue of the Greek god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes on the Greek island of Rhodes by Chares of Lindos between 292 and 280 BC. It is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Before its...
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| x Lighthouse of Alexandria |
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280 B.C.E. | Ptolemaic Egypt | Sostratus of Cnidus |
The Lighthouse of Alexandria (or The Pharos of Alexandria, Greek: ὁ Φάρος τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας) was a tower built in the 3rd century BC (between 285 and 247 BC) on the island of Pharos in Alexandria, Egypt to serve as that port's landmark, and later,...
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| x Eighth Wonder of the World |
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Eighth Wonder of the World is a term sometimes used to describe things in comparison to the Seven Wonders of the World, the widely-known list of seven remarkable constructions of classical antiquity.
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