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c. 2500 BC
The first and largest of the three great pyramids at Giza is built for the pharaoh Khufu, later known to the Greeks as Cheops
Great Pyramid
Photograph Josceline Dimbleby
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c. 580 BC
Nebuchadnezzar builds the hanging gardens of Babylon, supposedly to comfort a homesick wife
c. 550 BC
Croesus builds a spectacular temple at Ephesus in honour of Artemis, or Diana
c. 430v
Phidias creates a massive statue of Zeus, covered in gold and ivory, to stand in the temple at Olympia
c. 350 BC
Artemisia, widow of Mausolus, builds him a tomb at Halicarnassus so spectacular that his name provides a new word - mausoleum
292 BC
The Colossus, a giant statue of Helios the sun god, is erected beside the harbour of Rhodes
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