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| c. 2500 BC |
| | The first and largest of the three great pyramids at Giza is built for the pharaoh Khufu, later known to the Greeks as Cheops | |
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| c. 580 BC |
| | Nebuchadnezzar builds the hanging gardens of Babylon, supposedly to comfort a homesick wife | |
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| c. 550 BC |
| | Croesus builds a spectacular temple at Ephesus in honour of Artemis, or Diana | |
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| c. 430v |
| | Phidias creates a massive statue of Zeus, covered in gold and ivory, to stand in the temple at Olympia | |
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| c. 350 BC |
| | Artemisia, widow of Mausolus, builds him a tomb at Halicarnassus so spectacular that his name provides a new word - mausoleum | |
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| 292 BC |
| | The Colossus, a giant statue of Helios the sun god, is erected beside the harbour of Rhodes | |
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| c. 280 BC |
| | A great lighthouse, subsequently one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is built on the island of Pharos, off Alexandria | |
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| c. 120 BC |
| | Antipater, a Greek author living on the Phoenician coast, lists the seven wonders of the world | |
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