7 Wonders

Description

The historian Herodotus (484 – c. 425 BC) and the scholar Callimachus of Cyrene (c. 305–240 BC), at the Museum of Alexandria, made early lists of seven wonders. Their writings have not survived, except as references.

The classic seven wonders were:

Great Pyramid of Giza, El Giza, Egypt the only one that still exists.
Colossus of Rhodes, in Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, in Babylon, near present-day Hillah, Babil province, in Iraq.
Lighthouse of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt.
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, in Halicarnassus, Achaemenid Empire, modern day Turkey.
Statue of Zeus at Olympia, in Olympia, Greece.
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, in Ephesus (near the modern town of Selçuk in present-day Turkey).