1. The construction of this wonder 1 lasted for 10 years. For over three hundred years the Olympic Games 2 were held in Greece in honour of this God. But there 3 was no monument 4 devoted to him. The Greeks 5 asked the noble sculptor, painter and architect – Phidias- to build the monument. It is Statue of Zeus.
2. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the World, and the only one to remain largely intact. This wonder 6 was built for over 20 years and thirty-six thousand workers 7 built this wonderful masterpiece. It is the pyramid of Kheops
3. This wonder 8 was built to protect the ships from reefs, and it 9 was for many centuries one of the tallest-man-made structures in the world. Badly 10 damaged by three earthquakes between AD 956 and 1323, it then 11 became an abandoned ruin. It 12 was the third longest surviving ancient wonder until 1480. It is the Lighthouse of Alexandria