The Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Olympian Zeus, the Mausoleum of Mausolus, the Colossus of Rhodes and the Lighthouse of Alexandria.
1. The Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt, construction time: approximately 2631 BC - 2498 BC.
Construction location: Near Giza, near Cairo, Egypt.
Architectural features: There are 80 existing pyramids in Egypt, the largest of which is the Pyramid of Giza built around 2600 BC. All of them were built artificially.
2. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, construction time: about the 6th century BC Location: Babylon, east of the Euphrates River, about 50 miles south of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq today.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are of course not suspended in the air. The name comes from the fact that people mistranslated the original Greek word "kremastos" and the Latin word "pensilis" (which in addition to "hanging" also means "protruding") into
Caused by "hanging".
Like the Colossus of Rhodes, archaeologists have yet to find the remains of the Hanging Gardens.
3. The Temple of Artemis is the temple of the goddess Artemis in Greek mythology (the Bible translates it as Artemis, she is the goddess in charge of hunting, nature, fertility and newborns), ranking among the ancient world
One of the Seven Wonders, it is 425 feet long, 230 feet wide, and has 126 marble columns 60 feet high.
It is said that the construction time was as long as 120 years (in comparison, it only took 46 years for the kings of Magna Graecia to build the Jerusalem Temple).
4. Colossus of Zeus at Olympia; Zeus is the god of gods in Greek mythology and the main god of Olympia. The Zeus statue built for worship is the largest indoor statue in the world. The Zeus Temple where the Zeus statue is located is the Olympic
The birthplace of sports games.
Philo of Byzantium wrote about the seven wonders of the world and said: "We are proud of the other six wonders and revere the statue of Zeus." 5. The Mausoleum of Mausolus is located in Halicarnassus, in the southwest of Turkey, at the bottom
The building is rectangular, with an area of ??40 meters (120 feet) by 30 meters (100 feet) and a height of 45 meters (140 feet). The pier wall is 20 meters high, the columns are 12 meters high, the pyramid is 7 meters high, and the carriage at the top is
The 6-meter-tall statue is surrounded by a pier wall and decorated with stone statues next to it.
The statue at the top is of an ancient chariot pulled by four horses.
This mausoleum is famous not only for its architecture but also for its sculptures.
The sculptures of the tomb of Mausolus were made by four famous sculptors: Briaas, Leohares, Pash, and Timotheus, each responsible for one side of the tomb.
6. The Colossus of the Sun God in Rhodes is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
This colossus was built at the entrance to the port of Rhodes (Greek: Ρ?δο? (π?λη), English: city of Rhodes) and was completed in 282 BC.
It is a bronze statue of the Greek sun god Helios, about 33 meters high.
56 years after the casting of the Colossus was completed, it was destroyed by an earthquake in 226 BC.
7. The Lighthouse of Alexandria is one of the seven famous wonders of the world.
The ruins are on Pharos Island near Alexandria, Egypt.
The lighthouse was built around 280 to 278 BC and stood majestically outside Alexandria for 1,500 years. However, it was extremely damaged in two earthquakes and finally sank completely to the bottom of the sea in 1480.
Extended information: Since most of the ancient wonders have been destroyed, later generations proposed the Seven Medieval Wonders of the World.
In addition, American Lowell Thomas also proposed the seven natural wonders of the world.
In 2001, the New Seven Wonders Foundation (founded in 2001 by Bernard Weber, a Frenchman born in Switzerland) launched an online election for the New Seven Wonders.