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 The 7 Wonders of  The Ancient W orld Presented by : Nur Syahiira binti Shafee & Dayang Nur Salma Dharmila binti Awang Salleh MP!"!#D

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 The 7 Wonders of The Ancient World

Presented by :

Nur Syahiira binti Shafee

&

Dayang Nur Salma Dharmila binti Awang Salleh

MP!"!#D

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Do you $now what are the7 wonders of the ancientworld%

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The Great Pyramid ofGiza

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alled the Pyramid of Khufu and thePyramid of Cheops.

 The oldest and largest of the three'yramids in the (i)a Necro'olis*

 The oldest of the

Se+en Wonders of the Ancient World* The only one to remain largely intact*

,gy'tologists belie+e that the 'yramid

was built as a tomb for fourth dynasty ,gy'tian Pharaoh -hufu .heo's in (ree$/o+er an a''ro0imately "! year 'eriodconcluding around "12! 3*

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#42*1 metres .45# feet/*

 The tallest man6made structure in the

world for o+er 85!! years*9riginally8 the (reat Pyramid was co+ered

by casing stones that formed a smoothouter surface what is seen today is theunderlying core structure*

 There are three $nown chambers insidethe (reat Pyramid* The lowest chamber is

cut into the bedroc$ u'on which the'yramid was built and was un;nished* Theso6called<#= >ueen?s hamber and -ing?shamber are higher u' within the 'yramid

structure*

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The Hanging Gardens ofBabylon

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 The only one of the Wonders that mayha+e been 'urely legendary*

 They were 'ur'ortedly built in the ancientcity6state of 3abylon8 near 'resent6dayAl @illah8 3abil 'ro+ince8 in ra*

 The gardens were attributed to theNeo63abylonian $ing Nebuchadne))ar 8who ruled between 2!1 and 12" 3*

@e is re'orted to ha+e constructed the

gardens to 'lease his homesic$ wife8Amytis of Media8 who longed for the 'lantsof her homeland*

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 The gardens were said to ha+e been destroyedby se+eral earthua$es after the "nd century

3* The @anging (ardens of 3abylon are

documented by ancient (ree$ and Boman writers8 including Strabo8 Diodorus Siculus8 and

>uintus urtius Bufus*Ancient writers describe the 'ossible use ofsomething similar to an Archimedes screw as a'rocess of irrigating the terraced gardens*

,stimates based on descri'tions of the gardensin ancient sources say the @anging (ardenswould ha+e reuired a minimum amount of58"!! gallons .78!!! liters/ of water 'er day*

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The Roman Seated Zeus

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• #" meters .4 feet/ tall8 occu'ied half of

the width of the aisle of the tem'le built tohouse it*

• Ct seems that if eus were to stand u'8C

the geogra'her Strabo noted early in the#st century 38 Che would unroof thetem'le*E

• t was a chrysele'hantine scul'ture8 made

of i+ory and gold6'lated bron)e*

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• n eus? right hand there was a smallstatue of crowned Ni$e8 goddess of+ictory8 also chrysele'hantine8 and inhis left hand8 a sce'tre inlaid with

gold8 on which an eagle 'erched*•  The date of the statue8 in the third uarter

of the 1th century 38 long a subFect of

debate8 was con;rmed archaeologically bythe redisco+ery and e0ca+ation of Phidias?wor$sho'*

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The Temple of Artemis 

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o -nown less 'recisely as the Temple of Diana.

o t was a (ree$ tem'le dedicated to a goddess

(ree$s identi;ed as Artemis *o t was located in ,'hesus .near the modern town

of SelGu$ in 'resent6day Tur$ey/*

o t was com'letely rebuilt three times before its

e+entual destruction in 4!#*o n the 7th century the old tem'le was destroyed

by a Hood*

o ts reconstruction began around 11! 38 under

the retan architect hersi'hron and his sonMetagenes8 at the e0'ense of roesus of Iydia:the 'roFect too$ #! years to com'lete8 only to bedestroyed in an act of arson by @erostratus*

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The ausoleum atHali!arnassus 

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Also $nown as Tomb of ausolus.

t was a tomb built between 1 and 1! 3

at @alicarnassus .'resent 3odrum8 Tur$ey/ forausolus8 a satra' in the Persian ,m'ire8and Artemisia of aria8 his wife and sister*

 The structure was designed by the (ree$ 

architects Satyros and Pythius of Priene*  The Mausoleum stood a''ro0imately 41 m

.#45 ft/ in height*

each of the four sides was adorned withscul'tural reliefs created by each one of four(ree$ scul'tors J Ieochares8 3rya0is8Sco'as of Paros and Timotheus*

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The Colossus of Rhodes 

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t was a statue of the (ree$ Titan @elios*

,rected in the city of Bhodes on the (ree$ island of Bhodes by hares of Iindos between "K" and "5! 3*

t was constructed to celebrate Bhodes?+ictory o+er the ruler of y'rus8 Antigonus  Mono'hthalmus8 whose sonunsuccessfully besieged Bhodes in !1 3*

3efore its destruction in ""2 3 6 due to anearthua$e 6 the olossus of Bhodes stoodo+er ! meters .#!7 ft/ high*

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The "ighthouse ofAle#andria

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t was a tower built between "5! and "473 on the island of Pharos at Ale0andria8,gy't*

ts 'ur'ose was to guide sailors into the

'ort of Ale0andria*With a height +ariously estimated at

somewhere between K and 41! ft .#"!and #4! m/*

t was for many centuries among thetallest man6made structures on ,arth*

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