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ging Gardens of Babylon
Babylon’s Hanging Gardens are said apt have been put up by Nebuchadnezzar II, a monarch of Babylon nearly in 600 B.C. While historians frequently dispute almost the real subsistence of the gardens since there's not physical confirmation and Babylonian files do not speak about them, specifications affirms that the gardens comprised of vaulted terraces lifted above 1 different and sustained aboard pillars -- in other words, a non-natural growing mountain of gardens.
Tomb of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
Southwestern Turkey
The burial place constructed to clutch the remains of the Persian emperor Mausollos and his mate, Artemisia, was blueprinted by the Greek designers Satyrus and Pythius and was built approximately 353 B.C. on a climb facing the very old city of Halicarnassus. The grave namely 135 feet high, and its outer chapter was bounded by an charming fresco.
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Olympia, Greece
The massive statuette disbursing obeisance to the god Zeus was constructed at the Temple of Zeus in Olympia approximately in 450 B.C. Planned and created by the Greek sculptor Pheidias, the figure of a sitting Zeus was precisely 40 feet high and was carved from ivory with gold-plated enunciation. The figure portrays him sitting on a cedar sovereign loaded with gems, holding a statue of Nike that is deity of win in his right hand and a mallet with an eagle on pinnacle in his left hand.
Lighthouse of Alexandria
Pharos Island, Alexandria,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Egypt
Researchers appraisal is that the Lighthouse of Alexandria is that the calculation among 383 and 450 feet high and was constructed around the third century B.C. to manipulate for a milestone for Pharos, a microscopic island off the seashore of Alexandria, Egypt. The lighthouse's spire was constructed by means of fair-haired stone, and at its uppermost point a reflector was positioned to reproduce sunlight throughout the day; at night a bombard was set ablaze to give off light.
Colossus at Rhodes
Rhodes, Greece
The Colossus of Rhodes was in fact a large, intimidating 100-foot tall figurine of the Greek Lord Helios, constructed on the island of Rhodes approximately in 280 B.C. The figure was built to prestige the island's benefactor god, Helios,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], later Rhodes fruitfully protected itself in 304 B.C. from one bombard.
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