The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

This famous list was first drawn up by the Greek poet Antipater of Sidon, in the second century BC.

Date	Height	Notes		Name
2000 BC	481ft	About 80 remain – the only "one" of the Seven Wonders still standing (height is of the largest – the Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza)		Pyramids of Egypt
600 BC	75–300ft	Built either by Nebuchadnezzar II (for his wife Queen Amytis, because she missed the green hills and valleys of her Medes homeland) or by the legendary Queen Semiramis of Assyria		Hanging Gardens of Babylon
400 BC	40ft	Marked the site of the original Olympic Games		Statue of Zeus at Olympia
pre–300 BC	60ft	Destroyed by Goths in 262 AD		Temple of Artemis (Diana) at Ephesus
353 BC	140ft	Built by Artemisia, wife of Mausolus Some remains in the British Museum		Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
280 BC	117ft	Statue of Helios, God of the Sun, by Chares		Colossus of Rhodes
		Destroyed by earthquake in 244 BC
270 BC	400ft	The first lighthouse; built of marble. Statue of Poseidon on top		Pharos of Alexandria
		Destroyed by earthquake in 1375 AD

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