Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The Seven Ancient Wonders
Columns: Name | Date of construction | Builder | Date of destruction | Cause of destruction | Modern location
Great Pyramid of Giza | 2584–2561 BC | Egyptians | Still in existence | Still in existence | Giza Necropolis , Egypt | Temple of Artemis at Ephesus | c. 550 BC; and again at 323 BC | ns Lydia , Greeks | 356 BC (by Herostratus) AD 262 (by the Goths) | Arson by Herostratus , plundering | near Selçuk , Izmir Province , Turkey | Statue of Zeus at Olympia | 466–456 BC (Temple) 435 BC (Statue) | Greeks | 5th–6th centuries AD | Disassembled; later destroyed by fire | Olympia , Greece | Mausoleum at Halicarnassus | 351 BC | Carians , Greeks | by AD 1494 | Earthquakes | Bodrum , Turkey | Colossus of Rhodes | 292–280 BC | Greeks | 226 BC | 226 BC Rhodes earthquake | Rhodes , Greece