The Seven Wonders of the World

📖 In short

The Seven Wonders of the World are seven great buildings and statues from the ancient world that people admired more than two thousand years ago. The list was written by an ancient Greek writer. Today only one of them is left: the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt!

🤩 Did you know?

The seven wonders were built between about 3000 BC and AD 476.
The first list of the wonders was written by Antipater of Sidon in the first century BC.
The Lighthouse of Alexandria was completed in the reign of Ptolemy II.
In our own time people chose a new list of world wonders, including Petra and the Great Wall of China.

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🌟 The Great Pyramid

The Pyramid of Khufu at Giza is the oldest of the wonders and the only one still standing. It was built about 4500 years ago from millions of huge stones, and it was the tallest building in the world for thousands of years.

🔍 The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

It's said that the king of Babylon in Iraq built raised gardens on terraces, full of trees and flowers, with water lifted up to them from the River Euphrates. Scientists haven't found their remains yet.

💡 The Lighthouse of Alexandria

A huge lighthouse stood in Alexandria, more than 120 meters tall, with a fire at the top to guide ships at night. Then earthquakes destroyed it.

🎯 The other wonders

The wonders also included the huge statue of Zeus in Greece, the Temple of Artemis in Turkey, the tomb of King Mausolus, and the Colossus of Rhodes, a giant statue that stood at the entrance to a harbor.

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🧩 Test yourself

1 Which wonder is still standing today?

2 Which country were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in?

3 It was built about ?? years ago from millions of huge stones, and it was the tallest building in the world for thousands of years.

4 Which picture shows “The Seven Wonders of the World”?