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1. 7 Wonders of the Modern World
• Chichen Itza in Mexico.
• The Colosseum in Rome, Italy.
• The Christ the Redeemer statue, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• The Great Wall of China, in China.
• Machu Picchu, in Cuzco, Peru.
• Petra, in Jordan.
• The Taj Mahal, in Agra, India.

3. •
The seven wonders of the Ancient World were a set of architectural and sculptural works that the
Hellenes, especially those of the Hellenistic period, considered worthy of being visited. Over time
different authors made different lists, but the definitive was not fixed until the Dutch painter
Maerten van Heemskrerck, made in the sixteenth century seven paintings representing the seven
wonders. Those seven wonders were the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon,
the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, the Statue of Zeus in Olympia, the Mausoleum of
Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes and the Lighthouse of Alexandria. The remains and
evidence that have remained of these works vary greatly from one another. One of them, the
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, raises doubts about its real existence, at least in the city of Babylon.
Of the two statues on the list, no remains are preserved, although representations in coins of the
sculpture in honor of Zeus. From the four buildings on the list have come to the XXI century
descriptions, plans, representations, remains and in one case, the Great Pyramid of Giza, most of
its construction

4. • The list that has greater consensus is the following one, with its elements ordered according to their antiquity:
• The Great Pyramid of Giza. Finished around year 2570. C., was built for the pharaoh Khufu. Located in Giza, Egypt, the oldest, the largest
and the most durable, but whose ultimate purpose is still unknown.1
• The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Built in 605 a. C.-562 a. C. located in the city of Babylon, present Iraq. They lasted until no further than
126 a. C., when the city was definitely destroyed by the Persians. It is the wonder that most doubts raises about its real existence.2
• The Artemis' temple. In Ephesus (present Turkey) begun to lift by the king Creso.3 Raised around 550 a. C. and destroyed by arson in 356
a. C., Alexander the Great ordered its reconstruction, culminated after his death in the year 323 a. C. Antípatro de Sidón considered it the
most impressive work on his list by far.4
• The Zeus statue in Olimpia. Sculpted around 430 a. C. by Phidias. Located inside the temple dedicated to Zeus himself in the host city of
the famous games.
• The Halicarnaso Mausoleum. Started by the satrap Mausolo and continued by his wife Artemisa around 353 a. C. in the city of
Halicarnassus in present-day Turkey.3 It is supposed to stand out above the other buildings by height and by the white color of the
materials used.
• The Colossus of Rhodes. Forged between 294 a. C. and 282 a. C. located in an unknown place in the city of Rhodes on the homonymous
island, Greece, after defeating the rhodians to Demetrio Poliorcetes.6
• The Lighthouse of Alexandria. Built between 285 a. C. and 247 a. C. on the island of Pharos, at the entrance to Alexandria (Egypt), to
guide the ships that went to the two ports that the city had. Like the tomb of Mausolo that would give a generic name to all the great later
funerary monuments, the tower of Lighthouses (Pharos) did the same with the buildings built to help navigation

5. 7 Wonders of the Modern World