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Seven Wonders of the Ancient World:
Some facts & information

Great Pyramid of Giza
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the
Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact
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The mortar used is of an unknown origin (Yes, no explanation was given)
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It is stronger than the stone and still holding up today
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It was originally covered with casing stones (made of highly polished
limestone)
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They are no longer present being used by Arabs
to build mosques after an earthquake in the 14th century loosened many of
them
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This would have required
bronze saws 8-9 ft
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Hollowing out of the
interior would require tubular drills of the same material applied with a
tremendous vertical force
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The Hanging Gardens were a great source of pride to the people
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Traditionally they were said to have been built in the ancient city of Babylon,
near present-day Hillah, Babil province, in Iraq
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There are no extant Babylonian texts which
mention the gardens, and no definitive archaeological evidence has been
found in Babylon
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He also built a grand palace that came to be
known as 'The Marvel of the Mankind'
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If it did
indeed exist, it was destroyed sometime after the first century AD
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She was the
goddess of the moon, and the goddess of the hunt
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The first temple was built in approximately 800 BC
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Reconstruction began in 550 BC
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Some historians say it was destroyed due to a flood
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Some of the columns that were built in Hagia Sophia (a church in Istanbul,
Turkey) are thought to have been originally part of the Temple of Artemis
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The fire took place on the same day that Alexander the Great
was being born
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The
townspeople did not want to put his name on it so his name was not engraved
anywhere on or in the temple
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Statue of Zeus at Olympia
The original site of the Statue of Zeus at Olympia was located in the Temple
of Zeus, located in Olympia, in Europe’s Greece
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A visitor to the Statue of Zeus in 97 A
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, Dio Crysostomos described the
statue as being made of gold, ebony, ivory and precious stones
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One theory states that a Greek art collector named Lausus moved the statue
to Constantinople
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In 475 A
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a fire
swept through Constantinople and the statue was destroyed
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During their
excavation they found the tools that he used to create the Statue of Zeus at
Olympia
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Alexander the Great took over the city in 334 BC but the Mausoleum was left
untouched
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The mausoleum was raided by crusaders in approximately 1522 and any
treasures or the bodies of Mausolus and Artemisia were gone
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He found the statues of Mausolus and Artemisia and a
piece of the wheel of the chariot
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Stone warriors were placed on each corner of the tomb
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Colossus of Rhodes
There is a plaque inside the pedestal of Statue of Liberty that is inscribed
with a sonnet called ‘The New Colossus'
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Charles of Lindos was the architect of the Colossus of Rhodes
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The Colossus of Rhodes was destroyed in an earthquake in 226 BC, but pieces
of the statue lay where it fell for centuries afterwards
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The Rhodians refused
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Even when the statue lay damaged on the ground, people still marvelled over
it
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Lighthouse of Alexandria
The city Alexandria was named by Alexander the Great
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It is
still a prosperous city today
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In today's money it would have cost about three million dollars to build
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It was damaged by three earthquakes
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This allowed sailors to see the beam at night
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Both the beam of light and the smoke could be seen as far as 100
miles away
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