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Cheops pyramid on the Giza plateau are (Giza, Egypt) and was built by Pharaoh Khufu to serve as a tomb. It was built around 2560 i.Hr and upon completion of construction was 145.75 meters high.Today, the Pyramid of Cheops, with the other pyramids and the Sphinx, is included in the tourist region of the Giza Plateau.

Hanging Gardens of Babylon, also known as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon: their existence has not been proven 100%. Is said to have been built by King Nebuchadnezzar II for one of its sostiile, Amytis or Amuhea. A legend spread by Greek writers say that they existed long before, they had been built by King Ninus (Nineveh and Babylon towns founder) for his wife, Semiramis.
The most complete description of the Hanging Gardens was made by Diodorus of Sicily that look like they were made from the amphitheater with tiered terraces side about 123 m terraces were supported by stone walls.

It is said that the Hanging Gardens were located in the territory of today's Iraq.Statue of Zeus at Olympia has a height of about 12 m and was built by the sculptor Phidias around the year 435 BC The statue was carved in ivory decorated with gold, with an internal structure of wood for housing was beautiful statues built a temple. Olympics which are held today started in the city Olympia (Greece) in 776 Hours and i were held in honor of Zeus.

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (Artemisionul) was an ancient Greek building built for the Goddess Artemis in 550 BC at Ephesus (Turkey). Inside the temple is the statue of Artemis 2 mA, covered with gold and silver.

Philon said about this temple: "I saw the walls of Babylon, Gardens of Semiramis I saw, I saw the statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Pyramids. But when I saw the temple at Ephesus, the other miracles have disappeared in the fog. "Artemisionul disappeared after a fire and was rebuilt in 356 by Hr i nationals city Ephesus, the new temple was demolished along with the emergence of Christianity. Ephesus Today we can see a pole and a remnant of the wall that belonged to famous Artemision.

Mausoleum of Halicarnassus was the work of architects and sculptors Pyteos and Satyr Scopas and Timotheos and Mausol named after the governor of the province decay. It was all in Turkey, took the Ephesus in Halicarnassus (now Bodrum). Mausoleum had a height of 49 m and was destroyed by an earthquake in the twelfth century AD Today we can see what remains of the Mausoleum in a open air museum located north of Bodrum. « mai multe referate din Engleza