Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

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Innovation in civil engineering

Szerző: Luis Guerra

Black Holes

Szerző: Carter Krzeminski

I John 2:15-17

Szerző: Tim Lovegrove

Senior Project Architect Responsiblities

Szerző: Ron Bagoly

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Statue of Zeus at Olympia

5th–6th centuries AD

435 BC (statue)

466–456 BC (temple)

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

AD 262 (by the Goths)

356 BC (by Herostratus)

Greeks, Lydians

c. 550 BC; and again at 323 BC

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

After 1st century AD

Babylonians or Assyrians

c. 600 BC (evident)

Great Pyramid of Giza

Still in existence, majority of façade gone

Egyptians

2584–2561 BC

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

12th–15th century AD

Greeks, Persians, Carians

351 BC

Colossus of Rhodes

226 BC

Greeks

292–280 BC

Lighthouse of Alexandria

Date of destruction

AD 1303–1480

Builders

Greeks, Ptolemaic Egyptians

Date of construction

c. 280 BC