1. Match the wonder with the picture
Match the wonder with the picture. Draw a quick picture with a label in your notebook
Great Pyramid at Giza
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse at Alexandria
Wonder
Date of construction
Builder
Date of destruction
Cause of destruction
Modern location
Great Pyramid of Giza
2584–2561 BC
Egyptians
Still in existence
Giza Necropolis, Egypt
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
c. 600 BC (evident)
Babylonians
After 1st century BC
Earthquakes
Hillah, Babylon Province, Iraq or Nineveh, Nineveh Province, Iraq
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
c. 550 BC; and again at 323 BC
Lydians, Greeks
356 BC (by Herostratus) AD 262 (by the Goths)
Arson by Herostratus, Plundering
near Selçuk, Izmir Province, Turkey
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
466–456 BC (Temple) 435 BC (Statue)
Greeks
5th–6th centuries AD
Disassembled; later destroyed by fire
Olympia, Greece
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
351 BC
Carians, Greeks
by AD 1494
Bodrum, Turkey
Colossus of Rhodes
292–280 BC
226 BC
Earthquake
Rhodes, Greece
Lighthouse of Alexandria
c. 280 BC
Ptolemaic Egypt, Greeks
AD 1303–1480
Alexandria, Egypt