The only ancient wonder that still remains largely unchanged to this day. The Great Pyramid was said to have been the tomb of King Khufu (c.2589–2566 BC). Being originally about 146.5 meters high, it is thought to have been the tallest building world-wide for thousands of years. It seems like an extraordinary and almost impossible feat to have built such a building, even with today’s machinery and engineering, considering the immense size and weight of the stones, and the almost perfect measurements of the structure. Some say that it is still not known how or when it was built, nor who built it. Egyptologists claim that it was built for Pharaoh Khufu during Egypt’s 4th Dynasty (c. 2580–2560 BC)

Chares of Lindos, in 280 BC, erected the statue, Colossus of Rhodes, which was a representation of the Greek sun god Helios, located in the city of Rhodes, on the island of Rhodes. The Colossus was about 70 cubits, or 33 metres high‍ in today’s measurements. The Statue of Liberty is more than twice as high, including the pedestal, being 93 m high. At that time the Colossus may have been the tallest statue in the ancient world.

Said to be quite a feat of engineering and located in modern day Iraq, near or in ancient Nineveh, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon consisted of different levels of gardens created with mudbrick foundations, which were tiered and ascended, and which contained a huge variety of vegetation. It was a man-made mud brick mountain covered in greenery.

A lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Ancient Egypt circa 260 BC. It was thought to have been at least 100 metres in height.

Mausolus was the ruler of Caria in Asia-Minor, and the Tomb was built about 350 BC, by his wife and sister, Artemisia II. According to Pliny, the structure was about 125 metres around the outside, had 36 columns, and at the topmost point had a marble statue which resembled a four-horse chariot.

The Greek Statue was of a seated giant. It was about 12.4 m in height, and was made in about 435 BC at the sanctuary of Olympia, Greece. It was located within the Temple of Zeus, who, in Ancient Greece was considered to be the god of sky and thunder. The statue consisted of ivory and gold plates on a wooden frame.

The Temple of Artemis, or the Roman goddess who was the equivalent to Artemis, Diana. An inundation destroyed the temple circa 600 BC – 700 BC, but various artefacts were found among the debris, including a damaged carved ivory plaque of a griffin and a semblance of the Tree of Life.