Seven Wonders

Pyramids of Giza (Egypt) of the oldest Seven Wonders, a tombs of the Pharaohs, built around 2690 BC. M. three pyramids built the first of which pharaoh Khufu and height 147 meters and the second pharaoh Khafre and height 136 meters and third pharaoh Menkaure and 62-meter high, one of the Seven Wonders of residualthe aisles were filled and cemeteries in one day the property of the Kings, which is priceless, and buried them even use them in the afterlife as they claim have been looted treasures of the pyramids thousands of years ago and still successive discoveries to date.

 

Helios Rhodes was famous ancient colossal statues, was held in Greece in 280 BC. On the island of Rhodes and rises 32 meters was broken by an earthquake in 227 BC. M bringing crags and this statue was made ​​of bronze, iron-fortified.

 

Resided Ptolemy II Lighthouse of Alexandria in 280 BC. M., where is the first lighthouse in the world and reached high lighthouse about 120 meters, and was on an island away a little bit about the city of Alexandria, the Egyptians had set fire to every night on top of the lighthouse to warn ships passing, demolished earthquake1375 m.

 

When he died Maussollos king Kariya decided Artemis Queen Carey widow to evaluate him and her brother graves huge (Mausoleum of Halicarnassus) was jointly months architects Greeks in the construction and decoration of the shrine beautiful statues, at the top of the shrine put a statue of the king Maussollos and his wife and two sitting in the cart pulled by horses four, taller 42meters and keeps the British Museum and the city of Bodrum in Turkey with some parts of it. 

 

Statue of Zeus at Olympia, sculpture in Greece in 450 BC. M. belief was that good and divine Enbosan of this huge statue of Zeus, God forbid (or the buyer, as defined by the Romans), a Lord of the machine when the Greeks, and this was the statue in the temple of Olympia in Greece, which made ​​example Phidias and the statue is made of ivory and gold, and has a height of more than 15 meters, was destroyed by a massive fire no trace of him staying. 

 

Established king of Lydia Temple of Diana Barfssos in 500 BC. M., built this famous temple in Asia Minor, Turkey, and burnt Yrustrut in 356 BC. Per night where he was born Alexander the Great and rebuilt in 350 BC. M. but destroyed when an attack Goths in 262 BC. still remnants preserved in the British Museum also used part of the tailings in the construction of the Church of St. John in Ephesus and St. Sophia in Istanbul, and we know the form of a statue of Diana, who was inside the temple, through the existing copies him. 

 

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon set of bleachers rock unit after the other, dating back to 600 BC. M. It is said that Nebuchadnezzar who built and above these gardens for the ground between 23 and 92 meters but today no longer have the effect has disappeared, has planted trees and plants and flowers in the layerdense soil on each runway of rocky terraces. 

 

((Of course, most of these wonders ended or destroyed did not keep them only the pyramids of Giza))