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Page 1: Wonders of the world school Bryony Eccleston
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◦ Most famous

◦ Oldest and largest of the three pyramids in Egypt.

◦ Only one that still exists today.

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• Don’t know where it was• May have been in the country of Iraq, but may not have really existed at all.

• How tall? Hundreds of feet tall!

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◦ Built in Turkey for the Goddess of the Hunt in 550 B.C.

◦ The temple had one hundred and twenty seven 60-foot high columns and made of marble.

◦ It was destroyed by fire in 356 A.D.

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Colossus of Rhodes◦ A huge statue of the Greek God of the Sun

◦ Built in Rhodes, a Greek Island in 280 B.C. in the port.

◦ It was 33 metres high — the height of the modern Statue of Liberty.

◦ It was destroyed during the earthquake in 226 B.C. and never rebuilt.

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Lighthouse of Alexandria.

• Built on the island of Pharos in the harbour of Alexandria, in Egypt• More than 110 metres high

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Statue of Zeus at Olympia

• Giant seated figure, about 13 metres tall.• Made by a Greek sculptor in 435 B.C.• Built in the Temple of Zeus in Olympia in Greece.

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Mausoleum at Halikarnassus.

◦ This was a large and highly decorated tomb built for the king in south west Turkey.

◦ It was build in about 350 B.C. in Bodrum.

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