Name Date of construction Builder Date 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 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) Selçuk, Izmir Province, Turkey
Statue of Zeus at Olympia 466–456 BC (Temple) 435 BC (Statue) Greeks 5th–6th centuries AD Olympia, Greece
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus 351 BC Carians, Greeks by AD 1494 Bodrum, Turkey
Colossus of Rhodes 292–280 BC Greeks 226 BC Rhodes, Greece
Lighthouse of Alexandria c. 280 BC Ptolemaic Egypt,Greeks AD 1303–1480 Alexandria, Egypt