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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (from left toright, top to bottom):Great Pyramid of Giza ,
Hanging Gardens of Babylon , Temple of Artemis ,Statue of Zeus at Olympia ,Mausoleum of Maussollos ,Colossus of Rhodes and the
Lighthouse of Alexandria.
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The Seven Wonders of the World (or the
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) isa widely-known list of seven remarkableconstructions of classical antiquity. Itwas based on guide-books popular
among Hellenic sight-seers and onlyincludes works located around theMediterranean rim. Later lists includethose for the Medieval World and the
Modern World.
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Wonder Date Builder Destroyed Cause
Great Pyramid of Giza2650-2500 BC
Egyptiansstillstanding
N/A
Hanging Gardens of Babylon 600 BC Babyloniansafter 1stcentury BC
earthquake
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus 550 BCLydians,Persians, Greeks
356 BC fire
Statue of Zeus at Olympia 435 BC Greeks5th-6thcenturies AD
fire
Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus351 BC Persians, Greeks by 1494 ADearthquake
Colossus of Rhodes292-280BC
Hellenistic Greece 224 BCearthquake
Lighthouse of Alexandria3rdcenturyBC
Hellenistic Egypt 1303-1480AD
earthquake
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The Hanging Gardens of
Babylon (also known as
Hanging Gardens of
Semiramis) and the walls of
Babylon (present-day Iraq)
were considered one of the
Seven Wonders of the World.
They were both supposedly built by Nebuchadnezzar II
around 600 BC.
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Some circumstantial evidencegathered at the excavation of the palace at Babylon hasaccrued, but does notcompletely substantiate whatlook like fanciful descriptions. Through the ages, the locationmay have been confused with
gardens that existed atNineveh, since tablets fromthere clearly show gardens.Writings on these tabletsdescribe the possible use of something similar to anArchimedes' screw as a processof raising the water to therequired height.
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Hanging Garden, Assyrian
interpretationA hanging garden,
21st century
interpretation
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Babylon is the Greek variant of Akkadian
Babilu (bāb-ilû ,or Bab-Eili, meaning "Gateway of the
god(s)", translating
Sumerian Kadingirra),an ancient city inMesopotamia (modern
Al Hillah , Iraq ).
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It was the "holy city" of Babylonia from around
2300 BC, and the seat of theNeo-Babylonian Empire from 612 BC. In theOld Testament , the name appears as לבב ( Babel ),interpreted by Genesis 11:9 to mean "confusion",from the verb balal, "to confuse". Babylon is theGreek variant of Akkadian Babilu (bāb-ilû,or Bab-
Eili, meaning "Gateway of the god(s)", translatingSumerian Kadingirra), an ancient city inMesopotamia (modern Al Hillah, Iraq ). It was the"holy city" of Babylonia from around 2300 BC, andthe seat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from612 BC. In the Old Testament , the name appears
as לבב ( Babel ), interpreted by Genesis 11:9 tomean "confusion", from the verb balal, "toconfuse".
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