The Seven Ancient Wonders
Wonder Date of construction Builder Date of destruction Cause of destruction Modern location
Great Pyramid of Giza
2584–2561 BC Egyptians
Still in existence Still in existence Giza Necropolis, Egypt
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Around 600 BC (possibly legendary) Chaldeans
After 1st century BC Earthquakes
Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, or Kouyunjik, Nineveh Province
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
c. 550 BC Lydians, Greeks
356 BC (by Herostratus)
AD 262 (by the Goths) Arson by Herostratus, Plundering
near Selçuk, Izmir Province, Turkey
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
466–456 BC (Temple) 435 BC (Statue) Greeks
5th–6th centuries AD Fire
Olympia, Greece
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
351 BC Carians, Greeks
by AD 1494 The original structure was destroyed by flood. Bodrum, Turkey
Colossus of Rhodes
292–280 BC Greeks
226 BC Earthquake
Rhodes, Greece
Lighthouse of Alexandria
c. 280 BC Ptolemaic Egypt, Egyptians
AD 1303–1480 Earthquake
Alexandria, Egypt
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