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 The Worlds Eight Wonders? The Pyramids of Egypt ? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon 660 BC to unknown the king Nebuchadnezzar II Baghdad（巴格 达）–the Capital of Iraq Another Greek historian named Diodorus Siculus tells that the gardens were around 400 feet wide by 400 feet long and almost 80 feet high. Gardens height is very controversial, since Herodotus said it was 320 feet high, but this point seems too exaggerated The Temple of Artemis (Diana) at Ephesus? ? The ancient people of Greece and Rome believed in many gods and goddesses. They made up stories called myths about each of them. When the people did not understand something in nature, they made up a myth to explain it. These legends also told of special powers the gods and goddesses held to help or harm others as they pleased. They believed one had to be quite careful so as not to anger one of these pagan gods. The site of the temple today The Statue of Zeus 425 BC to 200 AD This statue was located on the west coast of Greece at Olympia It was realized with golden and ivory, measured 12 m (39 feet) height and was placed on a base of 2 m (7 feet). The base of the statue was 6 m (21 feet) wide and 1 m height. The statues perimeter was 13 m (43 feet). Zeus, in sat position, holds, in its right hand, the goddess of Victory, Nike胜利女神, and, in the left hand, a scepter surmounted by an eagle. The throne was decorated with relief sculptured mythological scenes, notably evoking the murder of the sons of Niobe, the queen of Thebes. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus 350 BC to 1400AD The monument tomb was in the centre of Halicarnassus In 1522, after the earthquake caused the monument to collapse, the Knights Hospitaller of St John, then based in Rhodes罗兹岛 , came to the region and demolished much of the Mausoleum of King Mausolus, using the stones for the reconstruction of the Bodrum Castle, named after St Peter. The Colossus of Rhodes 280 BC to 226 BC It is located off of the southwestern tip is Asia Minor,