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Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

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Colossus of Rhodes. The giant statue of the Titan-God of the Sun Helios erected in the city of Rhodes in 280 BC. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it was constructed to celebrate Rhodes' victory over the ruler of Cyprus.

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Temple of Artemis "I have set eyes on the wall of lofty Babylon on which is a road for chariots, and the Statue of Zeus, and the Hanging Gardens, and the Colossus of the Sun, and the huge labour of the High Pyramids, and the vast Tomb of Mausolus; but when I saw the house of Artemis that mounted to the clouds, those other marvels lost their brilliancy, and I said, "Lo, apart from Olympus, the Sun never looked on aught so grand"

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Statue of Zeus. 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. According to the Roman historian Livy, the Roman general Paulus saw the statue and "was moved to his soul, as if he had seen the god in person," while the Greek orator Chrysostum declared that a single glimpse of the statue would make a man forget all his earthly troubles.

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Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. A tomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus for Mausolos, a satrap in the Persian Empire, which is now in modern-day Turkey. It is one of the most well-known structures in the ancient world. After the Great Pyramid of Giza, this is the longest surviving wonder, having stood for more than a millennium and a half.

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Lighthouse of Alexandria. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, estimated to have been around 100 metres in height. For many centuries it was one of the tallest man-made structures in the world. Badly damaged by three earthquakes, it them became an abandoned ruin.

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Hanging Gardens are the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World for which the location has not been definitively established. The Babylonian priest Berossus attributed Nebuchadnezzar II with the construction of the Hanging Gardens.

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Great Pyramid of Giza. The oldest and only Ancient Wonder of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World to still remain intact. Built as a tomb over a ten-year period around 2560 BC, the pyramid was the tallest structure in the world for more than 3,800 years. Originally, the Great Pyramid was covered by limestone casing stones that formed a smooth outer surface that would have reflected the light; what is seen today is the underlying core structure.

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