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WELCOME TO TRANZION Created by MIKE The Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World By MIKE THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA Location: Giza, Egypt Constructed: 2560 B.C. (thought to have taken 20 years to complete) Height: 145.75 m (481 ft) when constructed, has lost 10 m over time Consists of approximately 2 million blocks of stone Built by the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu (Cheops) of the Fourth Dynasty Ranked as tallest structure on Earth for over 43 centuries more... THE HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON Location: Eastern bank of the River Euphrates, 50 km south of Baghdad, Iraq Constructed: some time during the rule of Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 B.C.) Thought to have been built for his wife, Mede, to remind her of her mountainous homeland The historians and poets who spoke of the gardens never actually saw them with their own eyes From the writings of Strabo and Philo of Byzantium: "The Garden is quadrangular, and each side is four plethra long. It consists of arched vaults which are located on checkered cube-like foundations.. The ascent of the uppermost terrace-roofs is made by a stairway..." "The Hanging Garden has plants cultivated above ground level, and the roots of the trees are embedded in an upper terrace rather than in the earth. The whole mass is supported on stone columns... Streams of water emerging from elevated sources flow down sloping channels... These waters irrigate the whole garden saturating the roots of plants and keeping the whole area moist. Hence the grass is permanently green and the leaves of trees grow firmly attached to supple branches... This is a work of art of royal luxury and its most striking feature is that the labor of cultivation is suspended above the heads of the spectators." THE STATUE OF ZEUS AT OLYMPIA Location: Olympia, on the west coast of modern Greece, 150 km west of Athens Constructed: Temple built in 450 B.C. Construction of statue began in 440 B.C. Dimensions: Base: 6.5 m (20 ft) wide by 1 m (3 ft) high Height of Statue: 13 m (40 ft), equivalent to 4-story building Temple designed by architect Libon, and statue sculpted by the Athenian Pheidias When emperor Theodosius I banned the Olympic games in 391 A.D., the temple was ordered closed Statue destroyed by a severe fire in 461 A.D. PICTURES     THE TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS AT EPHESUS Location: Ephesus, near Selcuk, 50 km south of Izmir (Smyrna) in Turkey Constructed: 550 B.C. Dimensions: Marble steps led to a platform 80 m (260 ft) by 130 m (430 ft) There were 127 columns, each 20 m (60 ft) in height Herostratus burned the temple to ground in an attempt to immortalize his name on July 21, 356 B.C., the same night Alexander the Great was born Sponsored by the Lydian king Croesus and designed by the Greek architect Chersiphron Decorated with bronze statues sculpted by Pheidias, Polycleitus, Kresilas, and Phradmon Building made of marble PICTURES THE MAUSOLEUM AT HALICARNASSUS Location: Halicarnassus, or Bodrum, on the Aegean Sea, in southwestern Turkey Constructed: 350 B.C. THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES THE PHAROS LIGHTHOUSE OF ALEXANDRIA Back to the Archives

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