The "Seven Wonders" are seven magnificent buildings and sculptures built around the third century BC on the eastern Mediterranean coast. The Seven Wonders are:
1. The Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt
Egypt is one of the oldest ancient civilizations in the world, on the west bank of the lower Nile. The Pyramid of Khufu is the largest of the Egyptian pyramids. The pyramids are a representative work of ancient Egyptian civilization, a symbol of the Egyptian state, the pride of the Egyptian people, or the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient Egyptian people.
The Pyramid of Khufu is 146.59 meters high, and due to age weathering, the top has been peeled off by 10 meters, and it is now 136.5 meters high, equivalent to the height of a 40-storey building. The tower is made of 2.3 million boulders, weighing 1.5 to 160 tons of stone of varying sizes, and the total weight of the tower is about 6.84 million tons, which is the largest of more than 70 pyramids found in Egypt to date. It is an almost solid megalithic body, and hordes of people drag these large stones up the slope of the ground and then pile them up layer by layer around the pyramid in a scaffolding fashion. More than 100,000 craftsmen have spent about 30 years to complete the human miracle.
2. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Hanging Gardens were built by Nebuchadnezzar II, King nebuchadnezzar II of New Babylon, in the century BC, on the west side of the Gate of Ista north of The New Babylon. According to the Greek historian Theodoros, the garden is covered with buildings with arcades on the terraces of different heights, and various trees and flowers are planted on the terraces, which look like hanging in the air from a distance, so it is called the Hanging Garden.
The Hanging Gardens of Ancient Babylon have a total circumference of more than 500 meters, adopt a three-dimensional gardening method, and are built on a high platform. Rockeries are stacked up layer by layer with stone pillars and slabs, reaching the sky. From a distance, the garden is like in the sky, so it is called the hanging garden. The mountain is divided into three layers, each layer is supported by large stone pillars, and the layers are covered with temples and pavilions, which even makes people feel that the river is in the sky, just like the paradise on earth.
III. Temple of Artemis
The Temple of Artemis was built around 550 BC and stands on a high mountain on the northeastern outskirts of Ephesus in Turkey. Founded by the Ionians from ancient Greece, Ephesus was the capital of the province of Asia Andia and the seat of the Roman governor in Roman times, and was the best-preserved classical city on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean.
In the 5th century, Ephesus was occupied by the Eastern Roman Empire, and the emperor ordered the complete demolition of the temple, and since then, this great architectural miracle has disappeared from the world forever. Today, all we can see is a pillar, and from the remaining remains of the stone pillars of the building, we can still imagine its majesty.
4. The Colossus of Olympian Zeus
The Temple of Zeus itself is a Doricorder building. The surface is paved with stucco limestone, and the roof of the temple is made of marble, and the temple is supported by 34 Corinthian columns about 17 meters high, covering an area of 41.1 meters x 107.75 meters. The stone statues in front of and behind the temple are carved from marble from the island of Paros. The many statues on the western side of the temple are decorated with herringbone eaves, which are completely in the Style of Athens.
5. Mausoleum of Mossolas
The Mausoleum of Mosolas is in Turkey, is a very famous mausoleum in Turkey, the construction area of the mausoleum is very large, reaching more than 1,000 square meters, the height is forty-five meters, there are statues at the top, and there are many stone statues around the mausoleum. The most famous part of the mausoleum is the sculpture in the mausoleum, which is depicted vividly.
6. Rhode Island Colossus of the Sun God
Rhode Island Colossus of the Sun God, it is a bronze cast of the Greek sun god Helios, about 33 meters high. 56 years after the Colossus was cast, it was destroyed in an earthquake in 226 BC. The Colossus was built at the entrance to the port of Rhodes. Only 56 years have passed since the creation of the Helios Colossus and its destruction. However, the colossus won a place on the famous list of the "Seven Wonders of the World". The Colossus of the Sun God was born due to a war at that time.
VII. Alexandria Lighthouse
The ruins are on the island of Faros on the outskirts of Alexandria, Egypt. The lighthouse was built around 280-278 BC and stood majestically outside Alexandria for 1500 years, but due to severe damage in two earthquakes in 1303 and 1332, the Egyptian government rebuilt the lighthouse in Alexandria in 1532, but due to insufficient funds, it could not be completely rebuilt.