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Q: What are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ?
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| 1 | A Greek author Antipater of Sidon (second century BC) was the first to list the greatest monuments and buildings among the world’s seven wonders. Most of these structures are now ruined except the ‘Pyramids of Egypt’; parts of which have survived. | |
| 2 | (I) The Pyramids of Egypt These are royal tombs, about 70 in number, built some 4000 years ago, which housed the dead Pharaohs of Egypt. They are located on the western side of the river Nile. They represent 1200 years of ancient Egyptian history. (2) The Colossus of Rhodes: It was a bronze statue of the Greek Sun God Helios (Apollo), about 35 m tall, in the port city of Rhodes on an island on the eastern side of the Mediterranean sea. It was sculptured around 325-292 BC by Charles of Lindus. It was destroyed in 224 BC by an earthquake. - (3) The Hanging Gardens of Babylon: These were built in the sixth century BC by Nebuchadnezzar-Il near Euphrates River, 96 km south of modem Baghdad. There were a series of terraces on which flowers and trees were grown. These flowers and small trees with fountains and refectories were about 23-91 in above the ground level. However, now no trace remains of these gardens. (4) The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus: Also known as ‘The Tomb of Mausolus’, the King of Caria in Asia Minor, at Halicarnassus, on the eastern side of the Aegean Sea. It was made of marble and built by the King’s widow Queen Artemisia around 350 BC. It was destroyed before 15th century BC by an earthquake. (5) The Pharos of Alexandria: The world’s first known lighthouse, made of white marble, standing 122 m high, it was built on the island of Pharos at the entrance of Port of Alexandria (in Egypt on Nile delta) in 270 BC. It was designed by Greek architect Sostratus of Onidus and King Ptolemy Philadephus (265-247 BC) completed it. (6) The Statue of Zeus (Jupiter) at Olympia: It was a 9 m high figure o supreme Greek God Zeus (Jupitor) in the valley of Olympia, near the west• coast of the southern peninula of Greece, which was then called Peloponnesus. It was destroyed in fire in 475 AD. (7) The Temple of Artemis (Diana) at Ephesus (Rome): The Temple was situated at Ephesus in Asia Minor, an ancient but now vanished city on the east side of the Aegean Sea, s |
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