| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Seven Wonders of the World |
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| in ancient classifications, were the Great Pyramid of Khufu (see pyramid) or all the pyramids with or without the sphinx; the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, with or without the walls; the mausoleum at Halicarnassus; the Artemision at Ephesus; the Colossus of Rhodes; the Olympian Zeus, statue by Phidias; and the lighthouse at Pharos, Alexandria, or, instead, the walls of Babylon. | 1 | | See L. Cottrell, Wonders of the World (1959). | 2 |
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