The Seven Wonders of the World

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon One of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon  one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.The Hanging Gardens of Babylon did not hang, but grew on the roofs and terraces of the royal palace in Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar II, the Chaldean king,who ruled between 605 and 562 BC., is believed to have had the gardens built in about 600 BC as a consolation to his Median wife, who missed the natural surroundings of her homeland and were destroyed by several earthquakes after the 2nd century BC.
They are documented by ancient Greek and Roman writers but there is no definitive archaeological evidence .

The Colossus of Rhodes One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

The Colossus of Rhodes, One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World,was a statue of the Greek Titan Helios which was erected in the Greek city of Rhodes between 292 and 280 BC. It is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and was constructed to celebrate Rhodes' victory over the ruler of Cyprus, Antigonus I Monophthalmus, whose son unsuccessfully besieged Rhodes in 305 BC. It took twelve years for the building ofthe statute and before its destruction in 226 BC - due to an earthquake - the Colossus of Rhodes stood over 30 meters (107 ft) high, making it one of the tallest statues of the ancient world.

Temple of Artemis One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

                                                   The Temple of Artemis
The Temple of Artemis  was a Greek temple dedicated to a goddess Greeks identified as Artemis and was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was located in Ephesus (near the modern town of Selçuk in present-day Turkey), and was completely rebuilt three times before its eventual destruction in 401.Only foundations and sculptural fragments of the latest of the temples at the site remain.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

The Lighthouse of Alexandria one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient was a tower built between 280 and 247 BC on the island of Pharos,Egypt, to guide sailors into the port of Alexandria.
It was between 393 - 450 ft tall and for many centuries among the tallest man-made structures on Earth.

Mausoleum at HalicarnassusOne of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

                                       The remainds of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus

The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World built for the king Mausolos of Caria, who died in 353 B.C. by his wife and sister Queen Artemisia.It was erected on a hill overlooking the city.
The Mausoleum was designed by the Greek architects Satyros and Pythius of Priene and was about 148 ft heigh. Each of the  four sides was adorned with sculptural reliefs created by each of four Greek sculptors — Leochares, Bryaxis, Scopas of Paros and Timotheus.The finished mauloseum was considered to be such an aesthetic triumph .
 The whole structure sat in an enclosed courtyard. At the center of which was constructed a stone platform which was a foundation for the tomb. The stone stairway was flanked by stone lions and the outer walls many statues of gods and goddess.At each cornerwas a  stone warrior mounted on horseback guarding the tomb. At the center of the platform, the marble tomb rose as a square tapering block to one-third of the Mausoleum's 148 ft height.  Bas-reliefs showing action scenes, including the battle of the centaurs with the lapiths and Greeks in combat with the Amazons warrior women.
There were thirty-six slim columns, ten per side, with each corner sharing one column between two sides; rose for another third of the height. The huge roof, was pyramidal on the top of which was a quadriga of four massive horses pulling a chariot in which rode images of Mausolus and Artemisia

                                             A model of The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus

                            
                                          A lion is  from the Mausoleum ( British Museum Collection).

Colossal statue of a man from the north side of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia: One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The statue of Zeus at Olympia was much admired by people who came to watch the Olympic Games. The statue was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.