What are the Seven Wonders of the World?

The Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt, the Babylonian Garden of the Air, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Olympian Zeus, the Mausoleum of Mosolus, the Colossus of the Sun God in Rhode Island, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

1, Egypt Huf Pyramid

Huf Pyramid is the largest pyramid in ancient Egyptian pyramids. Tower height of 146.59 meters, due to age and weathering, the top peeling 10 meters, now 136.5 meters high, equivalent to 40-story building high. The body of the tower is made of 2.3 million pieces of boulders piled up, the size of the stone weighs 1.5 tons to 160 tons, the total weight of the tower is about 6.84 million tons, and its scale is the largest of the more than 70 pyramids found in Egypt so far.

It is an almost solid monolithic body, hordes of people will be these large stone blocks along the pyramid's internal spiral up the channel dragged upward, and then stacked layer by layer, more than 100,000 craftsmen *** with about 20 years to complete the miracle of mankind, when the Eiffel Tower was not yet completed when the Pyramid of Khufu was also the world's tallest building.

2, Babylon Air Garden

Air Garden, also known as the Hanging Gardens, is one of the seven wonders of the world. Legend has it that in the 6th century BC by the Babylonian Kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar II (Nebuchadnezzar) in the city of Babylon for its homesickness consort An Mei Yidis (Amyitis) built, now does not exist.

The Garden of the Sky is said to have been built in three dimensions, with the garden placed on a four-tiered platform made of asphalt and bricks supported by 25-meter-high columns and an irrigation system in which slaves pushed the handles with gears attached to them. The garden was planted with a variety of flowers, plants and trees, and from a distance it looked as if the garden was suspended in mid-air, hence the name Sky Garden.

3, Temple of Artemis

The Temple of Artemis is the temple of the Greek goddess Artemis (the Bible turned into Artemis, she is the main division of hunting and nature, fertility and newborns of the goddess), ranked among the ancient world one of the seven wonders of the world, length of 425 feet, width of 230 feet, there are 126 60-foot-high marble columns.

The construction is said to have lasted 120 years before and after (by comparison, it took the King of Magna Graecia only 46 years to build the Temple of Jerusalem). On July 21, 356 BC, the temple was burned by Hierostates. Only one pillar of the temple remains to this day.

The ruins of this temple are located on the Ionian seashore in today's Turkey, and the place is referred to in the Bible as Ephesus, while it is now known or translated as Efesos.

4, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia

Zeus (Zeus) is the god of the gods of Greek mythology, is the main god of Olympia (Olympia), for the table worship and the construction of the statue of Zeus is the world's largest indoor statue of Zeus statue where Zeus is located in the Temple of Zeus is the birthplace of the Olympic Games. Byzantine Philo wrote of the Seven Wonders of the World, "We are proud of the other six wonders and revere the statue of Zeus."

5, Mosolus Mausoleum

Mosolus Mausoleum is located in Halicarnassus, in the southwest of Turkey, the bottom of the building for the rectangular, the area is 40 meters (120 feet) by 30 meters (100 feet), 45 meters (140 feet) high, of which the piers wall is 20 meters high, the columns are 12 meters high, pyramid height of 7 meters, the most top of the wagon statue is 6 meters high building is the pier wall The building is surrounded by a wall of piers and is decorated with stone statues on the side.

The statue at the top is of four horses pulling an ancient chariot. The mausoleum is famous not only for its architecture, but also for its sculptures. The sculptures of the Mausoleum of Mosoras were made by four famous sculptors, Bryaxis, Leochares, Scopas, and Timotheus, each of whom was responsible for one of the sides of the mausoleum.

6. Colossus of Rhodes

The Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Colossus was built at the entrance to the harbor of the city of Rhodes (Greek: Ρ?δο? (π?λη), English: city of Rhodes) and was completed in 282 BC. It is a bronze cast of the Greek sun god Helios, about 33 meters high. The statue was destroyed in an earthquake in 226 BC, 56 years after it was cast.

7, Alexandria Lighthouse

Alexandria Lighthouse is one of the world famous seven wonders. The site is on the island of Pharos by the city of Alexandria, Egypt. The lighthouse was built around 280 to 278 BC, and stood majestically outside the harbor of Alexandria for 1,500 years, but because of extreme damage in two earthquakes, it eventually sank completely to the bottom of the sea in 1480.

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