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The construction of the "new" temple, which was to become known as one of the wonders of the ancient world, began around 550 BC. It was a 120-year project, initially designed and built by the Cretan architect Chersiphron and his son Metagenes, at the expense of Croesus of Lydia.

Rebuilding and destruction of the Temple of Artemis continued until it's final destruction in 401 by St. John Chrysostom.

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Deir el-Bahri (Arabic دير البحري dayr al-baḥrī, literally meaning, "The Northern Monastery") is a complex of mortuary temples and tombs located on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the city of Luxor, Egypt. Hatshepsut's mortury temple was started in about 2050 BC, by Mentuhotep II, the founder of the Middle Kingdom. He laid out his sloping, terrace-shaped mortuary temple. The pillared galleries at either side of the central ramp of the Djeser Djeseru correspond to the pillar positions on two successive levels of the Temple of Mentuhotep. the construction continued until Hatshepsut's death around 1458 BC.. so in all, you could say the construction took 598 years to contruct: In reality, it would of taken her around 20 years. Hatshepsut was one of the most prolific builders in ancient Egypt, commissioning hundreds of construction projects throughout both Upper and Lower Egypt, that were grander and more numerous than those of any of her Middle Kingdom predecessors. Later pharaohs attempted to claim some of her projects as theirs. She employed the great architect Ineni, who also had worked for her father, her husband, and for the royal steward Senemut. During her reign, so much statuary was produced that almost every major museum in the world has Hatshepsut statuary among their collections; for instance, the Hatshepsut Room in New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art is dedicated solely to some of these pieces. Today the terraces of Deir el-Bahri only convey a faint impression of the original intentions of Senenmut. Most the statue ornaments are missing - the statues of Osiris in front of the pillars of the upper colonnade, the sphinx avenues in front of the court, and the standing, sitting, and kneeling figures of Hatshepsut; these were destroyed in a posthumous condemnation of this pharaoh. The architecture of the temple has been considerably altered as a result of misguided reconstruction in the early twentieth century A.D. Source - Wiki / Google.

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It took the Ancient Greece 5 to 6 years to build a temple.

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it took pheidias about 7 years to build the statue

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It took 11 years to build the Parthenon in Athens.

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It took about 12-20 years to build the great temple. But it took 80-100 years to build to Temple named Giza. Giza is a large temple with the most beautiful things inside.

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it took 2,000,000 years

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1 year

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