What Were Seven Wonders Of World
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What were Seven Wonders of World?
Seven wonders of
Ancient world were the pyramids of Egypt,the housing
gardens o Babylon, the blosus of chodes,the temple of Diana
at Ephesus the statue of Jupiter at Athens, the tomb o
mausolus and light house of Alexandria of there only the
pyramids surrise today.
The largest of yramids the great
pyramid of cheom toon a hundred thousand slaves twenty
years to build. And it was bult 6,600 years ago,sololy to
provide cheops with a tomb. The hanging goddess of Babylon
were built byking nebuchadnezza inside his palace grounds
one and a half hectrres of gardens were laid out in a
terrales whihstood onarcher three metres high. The colossur
of rhode was a gigantic branze statue of helior,the sun
God,whichstood at enhance of the harbour on island of
Rhodes looking oouut over the Aegean gen finished in
260BC. It took the sculptor charles,twelve years tobuild.
After standing for sixth year it wa wreeked by anearthquake
and layin pieces foe centuries until the Saracens bold it
for scrap. The temple of Diana,at ephesur inwhat is now
turkey,contained a statue of the goddess Diana whichwas
supposed tohave fallen from heaven. It ws destroyed,along
withcity by bothin AD262 we know twhat the statue of
Jupiter looked like because it appeared an ancient Greeke
coins but todaythere is no trace of it. With a body said
ot have been carved inivory,a dnwearing a robe made of
gold,the statue was made for temple at olympica by greet
sculptor phidiar who dies in 432BC. The tomb of king
Mausolus was built by hs widow at halicarnassur a greek
cityin Asia minor is fourth centry BC it stood over forty
tow metres high and was topped by great statues of mausolus
and his queen,astenisla. Some of the smaller statues fom
it are in the British Museum. The light house of
Alexandria in Eguypt stood at entrance to harbour on island
of pharos from its locatin the greeks barrowed the word
pharor to mean light house built of white stone by ptoleny
the first in 3rd centuryBC it soared 122 metres above the
harbour.
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