Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Wonders

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Section Title: Wonders
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Name	Date of construction	Builders	Date of destruction	Cause of destruction	Modern location

Great Pyramid of Giza	2584–2561 BC	Egyptians	Still in existence, majority of façade gone	Giza Necropolis, Egypt 29°58′45.03″N 31°08′03.69″E / 29.9791750°N 31.1343583°E

Hanging Gardens of Babylon (existence unresolved)	c. 600 BC (evident)	Babylonians or Assyrians	After 1st century AD	Unknown	Hillah or Nineveh, Iraq 32°32′08″N 44°25′39″E / 32.5355°N 44.4275°E

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus	c. 550 BC; and again at 323 BC	Greeks, Lydians	356 BC (by Herostratus) AD 262 (by the Goths)	Arson by Herostratus, plundering	Near Selçuk, Turkey 37°56′59″N 27°21′50″E / 37.94972°N 27.36389°E

Statue of Zeus at Olympia	466–456 BC (temple) 435 BC (statue)	Greeks	5th–6th centuries AD	Disassembled and reassembled at Constantinople; later destroyed by fire	Olympia, Greece 37°38′16.3″N 21°37′48″E / 37.637861°N 21.63000°E

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus	351 BC	Greeks, Persians, Carians	12th–15th century AD	Earthquakes	Bodrum, Turkey 37°02′16″N 27°25′27″E / 37.0379°N 27.4241°E

Colossus of Rhodes	292–280 BC	Greeks	226 BC	226 BC Rhodes earthquake	Rhodes, Greece 36°27′04″N 28°13′40″E / 36.45111°N 28.22778°E

Lighthouse of Alexandria	c. 280 BC	Greeks, Ptolemaic Egyptians	AD 1303–1480	1303 Crete earthquake	Alexandria, Egypt 31°12′50″N 29°53′08″E / 31.21389°N 29.88556°E

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The Colossus of Rhodes was destroyed by an earthquake in 226BC.

final_sentence: The Colossus of Rhodes was destroyed by an earthquake in 226BC.