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Mausoleum of Halicarnassus

July 8, 2011
   
   

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus for Mosolus a satrap in the Persian empire and Artemisia II of Caria, his wife and sister. The structure was designed by the Greek architects Satyros and Pythis. It stood approximately 45 m (148 ft) in height, and each of the four sides was adorned with sculptural reliefs created by each one of four Greek sculptors Leochares, Bryaxis, Scopas of Paros and Timotheus.  The finished structure was considered to be such an aesthetic triumph that Antipater of Sidon identified it as one of his seven wonders of the ancient world.
The word Mausoleum has now come to be used generically for any grand tomb.  
 

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Temple of Artemis

July 8, 2011
   

The Temple of Artemis , also known less precisely as the Temple of Diana , was a Greek temple dedicated to a goddess Greeks identified as Artemis and was one of the seven wonders of ancient world. It was sited at Ephesus (the modern town of Selcuk in present day Turkey) and was completely rebuilt three times before its eventual destruction in 401. Only foundations and sculptural fragments of the latest of the temples at the site remain.antedated the Ionic immigration by many years, and da...
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Statue of Zeus at Olympia

July 8, 2011


The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was made by the Greek sculptor Phidias, circa 432 BC on the site where it was erected in the temple of Zeus, Olimpia, Greece. It was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

The seated statue, some 12 meters (43 feet) tall, occupied half of the width of the aisle of the temple built to house it. "It seems that if [Zeus]] were to stand up," the geographer Strabo noted early in the 1st century BC, "he would unroof the temple." The Zeus was a chryselephantine...
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Hanging gardens of Babylon

July 8, 2011
  

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are considered to be one of the original Seven wonders of ancient world. They were built in the ancient city state of Babylon, near present day AL Hillah, Babil in Iraq. They are sometimes called the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis (in reference to the legendary queen Semiramis).
The gardens were supposedly built by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II around 600 BC. He is reported to have constructed the gardens to please his homesick wife, Amytis of Media, wh...
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The Great Pyramid of Giza

July 8, 2011
   

The Great Pyramid of Giza (also called the Pyramid of Khufu and the Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt. It is the oldest of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and the only one to remain largely intact. Egyptologists believe that the pyramid was built as a tomb for forth dynasty Egyptian pharoh Khufu (Cheops in Greek) over an approximately 20 year period concluding around 2560 BC. Initially at ...
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