"I've seen the great wall of Babylon, on which lies the road for chariots, and a statue of Zeus at Alphaeus, and hanging gardens, and the Colossus of the Sun, and the great work that builds high pyramids, and a large cemetery of Maussollos; but when I saw the house towering Artemis to the clouds, the other lost all its beauty, and I said, 'Look, in addition to Olympus, the Sun never again see anything so great.' "(Antipater, Greek Anthology IX .58)
The historian Herodotus, the smart Callimachus of Cyrene (about 305 BC - 240 BC), Filon from the Byzantine engineers have made a list earlier writings but nothing has been spared, but only as a reference.
Ancient World Wonders
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Pharos of Alexandria, came from the middle ages. According to a written list of Wall Babylon Antipater and not the tower lights. In the order letter:
- Colossus of Rhodes - a statue of Helios is a very large, built around 292-280 BC by Chures, now Greece.
- Hanging Gardens of Babylon - built by Nebuchadnezzar II, around the 8th century BC-6th century BC, now Iraq.
- Maussollos mausoleum - tomb Maussollos, Persian satrap, Caria, was made in 353-351 BC, the city of Halicarnassus, now Bodrum, Turkey.
- Lighthouse of Alexandria - the lighthouse was built around 270 BC on the island of Pharos near Alexandria in the reign of Ptolemy II by a Greek architect Sostratus, now Egypt.
- Pyramid of Giza - used as a tomb for the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, now Egypt. Built in the 4th dynasty of Egypt (about 2575 - around 2465 BC)
- Statue of Zeus - located in Olympia, Greece was carved by the sculptor Fidias, about 457 BC is now Greece.
- Temple of Artemis - 550 BC, at Ephesus, now Turkey.
Two of each wonder of the world are now in the area of Greece, Egypt, and Turkey, and one was in Iraq. One only wonders of the ancient world that still survive is the first creation, Pyramids of Giza. Wonders of the ancient world's most short-lived was the Colossus of Rhodes, which only lasted for 56 years before it was destroyed by earthquakes. There is some debate about whether the Hanging Gardens of Babylon had been built.
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