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These three massive Egyptian stone structures served as royal tombs and are the only surviving wonder of the original seven.
Difficulty: Easy- Temple of Karnak
- Valley of the Kings
- Abu Simbel
- Great Pyramids of Giza
This French cathedral, begun in 1163 and famous for its twin towers and rose windows, nearly collapsed before a 19th-century restoration inspired by a novel.
Difficulty: Medium- Notre-Dame de Paris
- Chartres Cathedral
- Reims Cathedral
- Amiens Cathedral
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This Italian engineer developed the mushroom column system for flat-slab concrete construction without drop panels or capitals.
Difficulty: Hard- Pier Luigi Nervi
- Eduardo Torroja
- Giacomo Matte-Trucco
- Riccardo Morandi
This iron lattice tower in Paris was built for the 1889 World's Fair and stands 1,083 feet tall.
Difficulty: Easy- Eiffel Tower
- Arc de Triomphe
- Notre-Dame Cathedral
- Sacré-Cœur Basilica
This London pickle-shaped tower, nicknamed after its shape, uses a diagrid structure that reduces wind loads by 25%.
Difficulty: Medium- 20 Fenchurch Street
- 30 St Mary Axe
- One Canada Square
- The Shard
King Nebuchadnezzar II allegedly built this lush, tiered wonder in Babylon, though archaeologists have never found definitive proof of its existence.
Difficulty: Medium- Hanging Gardens
- Ishtar Gate
- Ziggurat of Ur
- Tower of Babel
This proportional system, based on ad quadratum (rotating squares) and ad triangulum (equilateral triangles), governed the design of many medieval cathedrals including Milan.
Difficulty: Hard- Sacred geometry
- Divine proportion
- Medieval modularity
- Gothic proportions
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This pointed arch style dominated European cathedral construction from the 12th to 16th centuries, featuring flying buttresses and ribbed vaults.
Difficulty: Easy- Romanesque
- Gothic
- Baroque
- Renaissance
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