Can You Name the Seven Wonders of the World?

1. The Colossus of Rhodes
A gigantic brass statue 109 feet in height completed around 282 B.C., it was rumored to have stood on each side of the harbor of Rhodes until being thrown down by an earthquake around 226 B.C.

2. The Shrine to Diana
Built in the Turkish city of Ephesus about 550 B.C., this temple to the goddess Diana, or Artemis, was constructed of marble with a roof supported by 127 columns, each 60-feet high and weighing over 150 tons. It is believed to have been destroyed by a fire in about 356 B.C.

3. Statue of Zeus
Built around 450 B.C., this statue stood at an estimated 40 feet in Olympia – yet very little is known about it other than depictions appearing on gold coins. The body was apparently overlaid with ivory and robes of beaten gold. Destroyed by a fire in 462 A.D.

4. The Lighthouse at Alexandria
Constructed in the third century B.C., the lighthouse is described as having been made of white marble and standing between 400 and 600 feet high. It was destroyed in an earthquake in the 13^th century, but its remains were visible until A.D. 1350.

5. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Erected in about 350 B.C. by Queen Artemisia in memory of her dead husband King Mausolus, from whom the named mausoleum is derived. The building was 114-feet long and 92-feet wide, and was divided into five major sections and surmounted by a pyramid. Located in Southwest Turkey, the Mausoleum was disassembled by the Knights of Malta beginning in A.D. 1494.

6. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
While believed to have been built around 600 B.C. in Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, historical details are sketchy. The precise location of the gardens and their true appearance remain matters of historical debate.

7. The Great Pyramid
When built on the Giza Plateau, the Great Pyramid stood 481-feet high – the tallest structure on earth until the construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1889. Consisting of about two million blocks of stone, each weighing over two tons, the structure was originally covered with smoothed rock and hieroglyphs. Its original date of construction and meaning remain matters of historical controversy.