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What are the wonders of the world? This article reviews the seven wonders of the world, including architecture, art, ruins, religion, invention and discovery, which were created by human beings and have a certain impact on world civilization. They are the pyramid of Khufu, the hanging garden of Babylon, the temple of Artemis, the giant statue of Zeus in Olympia, the tomb of Mosolas, the giant statue of the sun god in Rhode Island, and the Alexander lighthouse. Each of them is amazing. Let's have a look.
- Khufu pyramid
The pyramid of Khufu is one of the pyramids in Egypt, with a height of 146.59 meters. The top of the tower is stripped off 10 meters due to aging. The current height is 136.5 meters, which is equivalent to the height of a 40-storey building. The tower body is made of 2.3 million huge stones. The stones of different sizes weigh 1.5 to 160 tons. The total weight of the tower is about 6.84 million tons. Its scale is the largest of more than 70 pyramids found in Egypt so far. It is an almost solid stone body. Groups of people drag these large stones up the spiral ascending channel inside the pyramid, and then pile them up layer by layer. It is a human miracle that more than 100000 artisans have completed in about 20 years.
Address: Giza, Egypt
- Hanging Gardens in Babylon
Hanging Garden, also known as Hanging Garden, is one of the seven wonders of the world. It is said that the aerial garden uses the three-dimensional gardening method. The garden is placed on a four-floor platform, which is built of asphalt and bricks. The platform is supported by a 25-meter-high column, and has an irrigation system. The slave keeps pushing the handle connecting the gear. All kinds of flowers and trees are planted in the garden, which looks like a garden hanging in the air from a distance, so it is named Hanging Garden. Scientists have confirmed that the Hanging Gardens in Babylon are actually located in Nineveh, 300 miles north of Babylon. Its builder is Sinaherib, the second king of the Sargon dynasty of Assyria.
Address: Nineveh (now northern Iraq)
- Temple of Artemis
The temple of Artemis is the temple of the Greek goddess Artemis (translated as Artemis in the Bible, she is the goddess of hunting and nature, fertility and newborn). It is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, 425 feet long, 230 feet wide, and 126 marble columns 60 feet high. It is said that the construction time was as long as 120 years (compared with 46 years for Herod the Great to build the Temple of Jerusalem). On July 21, 356 BC, the temple was burned down by Herostarus. There is only one pillar left in the temple. This temple site is located on the Ionian coast in Türkiye today. The Bible calls this place Ephesus, and now it is called or translated as Ephesus.
Address: Selchuk City Center, Türkiye
- The colossus of Zeus at Olympia
Zeus is the god of Greek mythology and the main god of Olympia. The statue of Zeus built for worship is the largest indoor statue in the world. The temple of Zeus where the statue of Zeus is located is the birthplace of the Olympic Games. The temple of Zeus was the religious center of ancient Greece. The temple is located in the southeast of the Acropolis of Athens, Greece, next to the Olympia Stadium in the city of Alice, and in the center of a vast flat land on the bank of the Ilysos River. It is the area under the control of Zeus, the god of the ancient Greek gods; This place is full of yellow hills, but in ancient Greece, it was surrounded by green valleys and clear streams. The scenery was elegant, and there was a dense forest not far away, with rich green. The path in the forest was surrounded by flowers and trees. It was also the religious center at that time.
Address: Greece
- Mausoleum of Mosolas
The Mausoleum of Mosolas is located in Harikanassus, in the southwest of Türkiye. The bottom building is rectangular, with an area of 40 meters (120 feet) by 30 meters (100 feet) and a height of 45 meters (140 feet). Among them, the pier wall is 20 meters high, the column is 12 meters high, and the pyramid is 7 meters high. The top carriage statue is 6 meters high. The building is surrounded by the pier wall, and the side is decorated with stone statues. The statue on the top is an ancient chariot pulled by four horses. In addition to its architecture, the tomb is famous for its sculptures. The sculpture of the Mausoleum of Mosolas was made by four famous sculptors, Brias, Leoharez, Pas and Timothy, each responsible for one side of the tomb.
Address: Harikanasus, Türkiye
- Colossus of the sun god in Rhode Island
Rhodes is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. This colossus was built in the city of Rhode (Greek: Ρόδος (π όλη)， English: city of Rhodes) The entrance of the port was completed in 282 BC. It is a bronze statue of Helios, the Greek sun god, about 33 meters high. Fifty-six years after the completion of the casting of the colossus, it was destroyed in an earthquake in 226 BC.
Address: at the entrance of the port of Lot, Greece
- Alexandria Lighthouse
The Alexander Lighthouse is one of the seven wonders of the world. The site is located on Pharos Island near Alexandria, Egypt. The lighthouse was built around 280~278 BC and stood towering outside Alexandria for 1500 years. However, it was extremely damaged in two earthquakes and finally sank to the bottom of the sea in 1480. Many of the minarets of the early Islamic mosques in Egypt imitated the three-story design of the Alexander Lighthouse, which is enough to show the extensive influence of the lighthouse on architecture.
Address: Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
