What are the 7 wonders of the ancient world

We have all heard about the 7 wonders of the ancient world, those architectural constructions considered authentic masterpieces. To this day only one is still standing and although there has been talk of rebuilding some of the others, it has never come true. Also, there are also the 7 wonders of the modern world, but do we really know what those 7 monuments are that were considered mandatory visits? From .com we explain what are the 7 wonders of the ancient world.

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The Pyramids of Gizeh. This is the only one of the seven wonders of the ancient world that still stands today and we can visit in Egypt. It is a group formed by three pyramids -Keops, Kefrén and Micerino- and they are located in the outskirts of Cairo. The one of Keops, of 146 meters of height and 230 meters of lateral, is considered most important of the monumental set, constructed on the year 2570 aC like funeral enclosure for the pharaoh Keops.

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The gardens of Babylon. Dated in the 6th century BC, they were in the city of Babylon, present-day Iraq, on the bank of the Euphrates River. The construction consisted of a series of stone terraces supported by wide arcades, so that, when viewed from below, the suspended garden looked like a tall staircase brimming with flowers.

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The Artemis' temple. This marvel was located in Ephesus, Turkey, erected for the first time about 550 BC dedicated to the goddess Artemis, being King Croesus of Lydia who promoted its construction. It was destroyed by arson around 356 BC and, subsequently, Alexander the Great ordered it to be rebuilt; even so, the Goths destroyed it again.

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The statue of Zeus. It was sculpted by Phidias, the greatest Greek sculptor, around 430 BC in Olympia and in honor of the king of the gods. It was 12 meters high, the width occupied the entire aisle of the temple that housed it and was made of gold and ivory plates on a wooden frame. Currently, nothing of this statue is conserved.

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The Halicarnaso Mausoleum. It was built around 353 BC and was located in the Greek city of Halicarnassus, present-day Bodrum (Turkey). Artemis built it in honor of her husband Mausolo, they say, which is why every sumptuous tomb was called a "mausoleum". It measured about 40 meters high and highlighted in it the sculptural groups that adorned it.

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The Colossus of Rhodes. Built between 294 BC and 282 BC at the entrance to the port of the city of Rhodes on the island of Rhodes (Greece). It was a statue of the god Helios, who had a pedestal between 15 and 20 meters and an iron skeleton, lined with bronze, between 30 and 32 meters; so that the statue reached a total height of almost 50 meters. It remained standing until in 226 BC it was shot down by an earthquake.

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The Lighthouse of Alexandria. It was built in the third century BC by Socrates of Cnidus for Ptolemy II, on the island of Faros in Alexandria (Egypt) to serve as a point of reference for the port and as a lighthouse. Erected on a square base platform, it had a height of 134 meters, was octagonal in shape and for its construction large glass blocks and marble blocks assembled with molten lead were used.

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All these wonders were part of an ancient list belonging to the Hellenistic period that was based on a poem by Antipatro de Sidón, where the poet mentioned and alluded to the beauty of these 7 constructions as the most significant and outstanding of the time.