The Statue of Zeus is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and it is a bit questionable on why there are better wonders that the ancient scholars would have had access to, but they wouldn’t have mentioned, because they weren’t Greek.

In the video, I mentioned a cool YouTube channel called  @meetmeindreamland  – I recommend checking them out for all of your historical theme park needs!

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