2.  --Built around 600 BC  --Built by Babylonians  -- multi-levelled gardens reaching (75 feet) high complete with machinery for circulating water. Large trees grew on the roof.  --Built by Nebuchadnezzar II for his wife Amytis of Media.  --destroyed after 1 st century BC by earthquake in Iraq

4.  --Built by Egyptians between 2584-2561 BC.  --Built as the tomb for Pharaoh Khufu  --Still in existence in Giza, Egypt  --the pyramid is as tall as a 45 story building

6.  Built around 550 B.C. by the Lydians, Persians, Greeks in Turkey  Dedicated to the Greek goddess Artemis and took 120 years to build  Burned down by Herostratus to achieve lasting fame (356 B.C.)  Rebuilt by Alexander the Great and burned down again by the Goths (AD 262)  377' long and 151' wide, supposedly the first Greek temple built of marble. Its columns stood some 40 feet high.

8.  Built by Greeks from 466-456 B.C.  40 feet tall  Only wonder to be moved from original location.  Destroyed between 5 th and 6 th century AD by fire  Was located in Olympia, Greece

10.  Built around 351 B.C. by Persians and Greeks  Stood 150 feet high  the tomb built for Mausolus, a satrap in the Persian Empire.  Destroyed by flood and earthquake in Turkey

12.  Built in Rhodes, Greece in 292-280 BC by the Greeks  A giant statue of the Greek god Helios, god of the sun, c. 35 m (110 ft) tall.  Destroyed by an earthquake in 226 BC

14.  Built in Alexandria c. 280 BC in Hellenistic Egypt, (Greeks)  Between (380 – 440 ft) high, it was among the tallest structures on Earth for many centuries.  The name of the island that it was built on, Pharos, eventually became the Latin word for lighthouse, pharos.  Destroyed by earthquake AD 1303-1480