The Great Pyramid of Giza-also known as

the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops is the

oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza
pyramid complex bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt. It
is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World,
and the only one to remain largely intact.

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 of
Zeus there. A sculpture of ivory plates and gold panels
over a wooden framework, it represented the
god Zeus sitting on an elaborate cedar wood throne
ornamented with ebony, ivory, gold and precious stones

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. One of the Seven Wonders of the
Ancient World, it was constructed to celebrate Rhodes' victory over the
ruler of Cyprus, Antigonus I Monophthalmus, whose son unsuccessfully
besieged Rhodes in 305 BC. Before its destruction in the earthquake of
226 BC, the Colossus of Rhodes stood over 30 metres (98 feet) high,
making it one of the tallest statues of the ancient world.

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of

Mausolus-was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC
at Halicarnassus present Bodrum, Turkey for Mausolus,
a satrap in the Persian Empire, and his sisterwife Artemisia II of Caria. The structure was designed by
the Greek architects Satyros and Pythius of Priene.
The Mausoleum was approximately 45 m (148 ft) in
height, and the four sides were adorned
with sculptural reliefs, each created by one of four
Greek sculptors-Leochares, Bryaxis, Scopas of Paros and
Timotheus.The finished structure of the mausoleum was
considered to be such an aesthetic triumph that Antipater
of Sidonidentified it as one of his Seven Wonders of the
Ancient World. It was destroyed by successive
earthquakes from the 12th to the 15th century.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon- one of the Seven

Wonders of the Ancient World, is the only one whose
location has not been definitively established.
The Hanging Gardens were a distinctive feature of ancient
Babylon. They were a great source of pride to the people.
Possibly built by King Nebuchadnezzar II in 600 BC, the
gardens are believed to have been a remarkable feat of
engineering: an ascending series of tiered gardens
containing all manner of trees, shrubs, and vines. The
gardens were said to have looked like a large green
mountain constructed of mud bricks.

The Temple of Artemis or Artemision-also known less

precisely as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek
templededicated to the goddess Artemis. It was located
in Ephesus near the modern town of Seluk in presentday Turkey. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient
World, it was completely rebuilt three times before its
eventual destruction in 401 AD. Only foundations and
sculptural fragments of the latest of the temples at the site
remain.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria- sometimes called the Pharos of

Alexandria was a lighthouse built by thePtolemaic
Kingdom between 280 and 247 BC which was between 393 and
450 ft (120 and 137 m) tall. One of the Seven Wonders of the
Ancient World, it was one of thetallest man-made structures in the
world for many centuries. Badly damaged by three earthquakes
between AD 956 and 1323, it then became an abandoned ruin. It
was the third longest surviving ancient wonder after
the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus and the extant Great Pyramid of
Giza until in 1480 the last of its remnant stones were used to build
the Citadel of Qaitbay on the site. In 1994, French archaeologists
discovered some remains of the lighthouse on the floor of
Alexandria's Eastern Harbour