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Great Pyramid of Giza                              page 3-4

Hanging Gardens of Babylon                     page 5-6

Statue of Zeus                                         page 7-8

Temple of Artemis                                page 9-10

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus              page 11-12

Colossus of Rhodes                           page 13-14

Lighthouse of Alexandria                   page 15-16

The Great Pyramid is located at Giza, Egypt and is 

the funerary tomb of Pharaoh Khufu.   It was built around 

2560 BC and is 756 feet long on each side, 450 feet high 

and composed of 2,300,000 blocks of limestone, each 

weighing an average of 2 and a half tons. Despite the 

ancient times and lack of modern tools, no side is more 

than 8 inches different in length than another, and the 

whole structure is perfectly oriented to the points of the 

compass. 

According to legend, King Nebuchadnezzar built the 

gardens for his wife, Amytis who was a princess from 

Media, a region of Iran near the Caspian Sea. 

Nebuchadnezzar is said to have built the gardens for her 

because she was homesick. The gardens were likely 

located by the Euphrates River in what is now modern-day 

Iraq. Despite the name the gardens didn't actually hang: 

They draped over the sides of terraces on a brick 

structure. Some accounts of the gardens claim that they 

grew as high as 75 feet in the air and that people could 

walk beneath them. 

The Statue of Zeus located in the Temple of Zeus at 

Olympia, Greece was carved by the famed Classical 

sculptor Phidias in 432 BC.   Zeus's statue is 40 feet tall and 

was carved from ivory, covered with gold plating and was 

seated on a magnificent throne of cedar wood, inlaid with 

ivory, gold, ebony, and precious stones.   In Zeus's right 

hand is a small statue of Nike, the goddess of victory, and 

in his left hand, a shining scepter on which an eagle is 

perched.    The Statue was destroyed in the Temple fire 

around the 5th century AD.

The Temple of Artemis is located at Ephesus and   was 

constructed in the mid 6th century BC by Cherisiphron. 

The Temple was built to honor the Greek goddess Artemis, 

goddess of the moon and the hunt, by King Croesus of 

Lydia. The temple was a large marble building that 

measured 377 feet by 180 feet and was decorated with 

127 Ionic columns that stood 60 feet high.    However, the 

temple was destroyed a few times and all that remains 

today is a lonely reconstructed column that reminds the 

world of the grandiose and gleaming temple.

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