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  Seven Wonders of the World timeline
     
c. 2500 BC
 
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The first and largest of the three great pyramids at Giza is built for the pharaoh Khufu, later known to the Greeks as Cheops       
Great Pyramid
Photograph Josceline Dimbleby

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c. 580 BC
 
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Nebuchadnezzar builds the hanging gardens of Babylon, supposedly to comfort a homesick wife       
c. 550 BC
 
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Croesus builds a spectacular temple at Ephesus in honour of Artemis, or Diana       
c. 430v
 
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Phidias creates a massive statue of Zeus, covered in gold and ivory, to stand in the temple at Olympia        
c. 350 BC
 
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Artemisia, widow of Mausolus, builds him a tomb at Halicarnassus so spectacular that his name provides a new word - mausoleum       
292 BC
 
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The Colossus, a giant statue of Helios the sun god, is erected beside the harbour of Rhodes