WONDERS OF THE WORLD

 WONDERS OF THE WORLD

This article is about natural and constructed phenomena and structures
of the world. For other uses of "Wonders of the World", see Wonders of
the World (disambiguation).
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World(from left to right, top to
bottom): Great Pyramid of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Temple of

Artemisat Ephesus, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Mausoleum at
Halicarnassus(also known as the Mausoleum of Mausolus), Colossus of
Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandriaas depicted by 16th-century
Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck.
Various lists of theWonders of the Worldhave been compiled from
antiquity to the present day, to catalogue the world's most
spectacular natural wonders and manmade structures.
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is the first known list of the
most remarkable creations of classical antiquity; it was based on
guidebooks popular among Hellenicsightseers and only includes works
located around the Mediterraneanrim. The number seven was chosen
because the Greeks believed it represented perfection and plenty, and
because it was the number of the five planets known anciently, plus
the sun and moon. [ 1 ]Many similar lists have been made.[ citation
needed][ clarification needed]
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Main article: Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The Great Pyramid of Giza, the only wonder of the ancient world still
in existence
The Colosseumin Rome
The Great Wall of China

Hagia Sophia
Stonehenge
Machu Picchu
Taj Mahal
Empire State Building
Golden Gate Bridge
The Victoria Fallscontain the largest sheet of falling water in the
world in terms of area
The Great Barrier Reef
CN Tower
Chichen Itza
Old City of Jerusalem
The Aurora Borealisor Northern Lights
Grand Canyon
The London sewerage system's original Abbey Mills pumping station
The historian Herodotus(484 – ca. 425 BCE), and the scholar
Callimachusof Cyrene(ca. 305 – 240 BCE) at the Museum of Alexandria,
made early lists of seven wonders. Their writings have not survived,
except as references.
The classic seven wonders were:
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Great Pyramid of Giza
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Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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Statue of Zeus at Olympia
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Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
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Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
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Colossus of Rhodes
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Lighthouse of Alexandria
The only ancient world wonder that still exists is the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Lists from other eras
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, some writers wrote their own
lists with names such as Wonders of the Middle Ages, Seven Wonders of
the Middle Ages, Seven Wonders of the Medieval Mind, and Architectural
Wonders of the Middle Ages. However it is unlikely that these lists
originated in the Middle Ages because the word medievalwas not
invented until the Enlightenment-era, and the concept of a Middle Age
did not become popular until the 16th century. Brewer's Dictionary of
Phrase and Fablerefers to them as "later list[s]" [ 2 ]suggesting the
lists were created after the Middle Ages.
Many of the structures on these lists were built much earlier than the
Medieval Ages, but were well known.
Source: en.wikipedia.org