The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World refers to remarkable constructions of classical antiquity listed by various authors in guidebooks popular among the ancient Hellenic tourists, particularly in the 1st and 2nd centuries BC. The most prominent of these, the versions by Antipater of Sidon and an observer identified as Philo of Byzantium, comprise seven works located around the eastern Mediterranean rim. The original list inspired innumerable versions through the ages, often listing seven entries. Of the original Seven Wonders, only one—the Great Pyramid of Giza, the oldest of the ancient wonders—remains relatively intact.
1. Great Pyramid of Giza 2584--2561 BC Egyptians Still in existence Giza Necropolis, Egypt
2.Hanging Gardens of Babylon Around 600 BC (evident) Babylonians After 1st century BC Earthquakes Hillah, Babylon Province, Iraq or
Nineveh, Nineveh Province, Iraq
3.Temple of Artemis at Ephesus c. 550 BC; and again at 323 BC Lydians, Greeks 356 BC (by Herostratus)
AD 262 (by the Goths) Arson by Herostratus, Plundering near Selçuk, Izmir Province, Turkey
4.Statue of Zeus at Olympia 466--456 BC (Temple)
435 BC (Statue) Greeks 5th--6th centuries AD Disassembled; later destroyed by fire Olympia, Greece
5.Mausoleum at Halicarnassus 351 BC Carians, Greeks by AD 1494 Earthquakes Bodrum, Turkey
6.Colossus of Rhodes 292--280 BC Greeks 226 BC Earthquake Rhodes, Greece
7.Lighthouse of Alexandria c. 280 BC Ptolemaic Egypt, Greeks AD 1303--1480 Earthquake Alexandria, Egypt
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