7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
Peters, Rome  13 years
 Notable structures present during classical
antiquity
 Alexander the Great’s conquest of the western
world
 Greek spoke of “theamata” = sights / things to be
seen
1. Great Pyramid of Giza (3998-3721 BC)
- Orientation is so close to true north
- Cheops (Khufu) 3733-3700 BC, Snefru’s son
 51.5° slope
 13 acres, 760ft (231.65m) BW
 2x of St.
 Equal to Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London
 North entrance, 47ft 6in high
2. Hanging Gardens of Babylon (c. 600 BC
(evident))
- Nebuchadnezzar II, neo-Babylonian King
- Babylon = gate of the Gods
- Existence unresolved
3. Statue at Zeus Olympia, 466–456 BC (temple),
435 BC (statue)
- sculpted by Phidias
 13m high
 Gold and Ivory (Chryselephantine)
- Destroyed by fire, during 5th AD
- Greek temple, Doric order
 Hexastyle peripteral temple with distyle
in-antis porches at both ends
4. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
- Temple of Diana
- Destroyed by flood, 7th century BC
- Reconstruction around 550 BC, Chersiphron,
Cretan architect, and son Metagenes
 Funded by Croesus of Lydia
 10 years to complete
- Then, destroyed in 356 BC by Herostratus in an
act of arson
5. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, 353-350 BC
- Tomb for Mausolus
- 45m height, 148ft
- Destroyed by successive earthquakes
- Mausoleum = above-ground tomb
6. Colossus of Rhodes, 280 BC
- Greek sun-god Helios
- By Chares of Lindos
- 70 cubits high, 33 meters, 108 ft
- Height of modern day Statue of Liberty
- Tallest statue in the ancient world
- Collapsed during earthquake, 226 BC

7. Lighthouse of Alexandria, 3rd C. BC

- Pharos of Alexandria
- By Ptolemaic Kingdom, Ptolemy I, Ancient
Egypt
 After Alexander the Great died
- 100 meters high, 330 ft
- Damaged by 3 earthquakes between 956-1323
AD
- Longest surviving ancient wonder