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c. 2560 BCEThe Great Pyramid of Giza is constructed by Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops).
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c. 2510 BCEPyramid of Menkaure is built at Giza.
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605 BCE - 562 BCEThe Hanging Gardens of Babylon, according to tradition, are built by Nebuchadnezzar II.
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c. 550 BCE - c. 430 BCEConstruction of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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c. 430 BCEThe cult statue of Zeus by Phidias is dedicated in the Temple of Zeus, Olympia. It is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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c. 367 BCE - 350 BCEThe Mausoleum at Halicarnassus is built, tomb of Mausolus, ruler of Caria.
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21 Jul 356 BCEThe Temple of Artemis at Ephesus is destroyed by a deliberate fire.
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c. 355 BCE - c. 330 BCEThe Temple of Artemis at Ephesus is rebuilt/restored.
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c. 300 BCE - c. 280 BCEThe Lighthouse of Alexandria is built, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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c. 292 BCE - c. 280 BCEThe Colossus of Rhodes, a representation of Helios, is built in Rhodes town harbour, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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228 BCE - 226 BCEThe Colossus of Rhodes is toppled by an earthquake.
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225 BCEPhilo of Byzantium records The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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c. 267 CEThe Goths plunder and destroy the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus.
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395 CEThe statue of Zeus at Olympia is removed to Constantinople.
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401 CEThe Temple of Artemis at Ephesus is destroyed by a Christian mob.
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475 CEAccording to the Byzantine historian Zonaras, the statue of Zeus from Olympia is destroyed by a fire in Constantinople.
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c. 654 CEAccording to Theophanes, a Jewish merchant transports the pieces of the fallen Colossus of Rhodes to Edessa for melting down.
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956 CEThe Lighthouse of Alexandria partially collapses following earthquake damage sustained in 950 CE.
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c. 1100 CEA domed mosque is added to the repaired Lighthouse of Alexandria.
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c. 1330 CEThe Lighthouse of Alexandria definitively collapses, probably due to an earthquake.
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c. 1494 CEThe Knights of Saint John of Malta use parts of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus in the walls of the castle of Saint Peter at Bodrum.