The Seven Wonders of the World

Name	Place	Modern Country	Date built	lasted (years)	Comments
Great Pyramid	Giza	Egypt	2580 BC	4500 so far	Only Wonder to survive
Hanging Gardens	Babylon	Iraq	?600 BC	?	Perhaps never existed
Statue of Zeus (Jupiter)	Olympia	Greece	433 BC	?	Site of Olympic Games (not Mt Olympus)
Temple of Artemis (Diana)	Ephesus	Turkey	560 BC	800	Largest temple of Classical Times
Tomb of King Mausolus	Halicarnassus	Turkey	353 BC	1700	Gives name to "mausoleum"
Colossos - statue of Helios (Apollo)	Rhodes	Island in Mediterranean	280 BC	54	Gives name to "colossal"
Pharos (lighthouse)	Alexandria	Egypt	280 BC	1600	Alexandria was built by Alexander the Great.

The Seven Wonders of the World were described by Antipatros, a Greek historian, in the second century BC. None of them were Roman, but the Romans would have known about them. Only the Great Pyramid survives today. The Hanging Gardens may never have existed. The Colossos lasted a very short time, and nothing of it remains today. Zeus' statue has disappeared, although the temple ruins remain. There are ruins of the temple at Ephesus and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. The Pharos was demolished, but some of the stones were used to build a fort on the same site.