Those who could afford to travel in times before Jesus Christ could see the seven wonders of the world. A guidebook to Greece written before Jesus Christ gave an account of them: the great pyramid of Cheops, the largest of Egypt's pharaonic tombs, built around 2 600 B.C.; the hanging gardens of Babylon, built during the same period by King Nebuchadnezzar for his wife. the hanging gardens of Babylon, built during the same period by King Nebuchadnezzar for his wife; the statue of Zeus in Olympia, a statue of the king of the gods over eleven meters high located on the site where the first Olympic games were held in Greece; the temple of Artenusa at Upheus, in western Asia Minor, now part of Turkey; the mausoleum of Hahcarnassus, for which we incorporate the word mausoleum; the Colossus of Rhodes, built in 280 B.C. at the entrance to the port of Rhodes, in the south of the island. B.C. at the entrance to the harbor of the city of this Aegean island, and a "house of light- located outside Alexandria, known as Pharos, built about 240 a.C.
