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The traditional list was made by Philo of Byzantium, and written in 225 BC in his work "On the Seven Wonders". more

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x Great Pyramid of Giza Kheops-Pyramid 2561 B.C.E. Ancient Egypt Hemon
The Great Pyramid of Giza (also called the Khufu's Pyramid, Pyramid of Khufu, and Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now Cairo, Egypt, and is the only one of the Seven Wonders...
x Hanging Gardens of Babylon Hanging Gardens of Babylon 562 B.C.E. Babylonia Nebuchadrezzar II
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, also known as the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis, near present-day Al Hillah, Babil in Iraq, is considered one of the original Seven Wonders of the World. They were built by the Chaldean king Nebuchadnezzar II around...
x Statue of Zeus at Olympia Statue of Zeus 435 B.C.E. Ancient Greece Phidias
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was made by the Greek sculptor of the Classical period, Phidias, circa 432 BCE on the site where it was erected in the temple of Zeus, Olympia, Greece. The seated...
x Temple of Artemis Site of the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus. 550 B.C.E. Lydia  
The Temple of Artemis (Greek: Ἀρτεμίσιον Artemision), also known less precisely as Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to Artemis completed— in its most famous phase— around 550 BCE at Ephesus (in present-day Turkey). Only foundations and...
Achaemenid Empire
Ancient Greece
x Mausoleum of Maussollos Mausoleum of Halicarnassus 351 C.E. Ancient Greece Pythis
The Tomb of Mausolus, Mausoleum of Mausolus or Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (in Greek, Μαυσωλεῖον της Ἁλικαρνασσοῦ) was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a satrap in the Persian Empire, and...
Seleucid Empire Satyros
x Colossus of Rhodes 280 B.C.E. Ancient Greece Chares of Lindos
The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue of the Greek god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes on the Greek island of Rhodes by Chares of Lindos between 292 and 280 BC. It is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Before its...
x Lighthouse of Alexandria Lighthouse - Thiersch 280 B.C.E. Ptolemaic Egypt Sostratus of Cnidus
The Lighthouse of Alexandria (or The Pharos of Alexandria, Greek: ὁ Φάρος τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας) was a tower built in the 3rd century BC (between 285 and 247 BC) on the island of Pharos in Alexandria, Egypt to serve as that port's landmark, and later,...
x Eighth Wonder of the World Amber Room before WWII      
Eighth Wonder of the World is a term sometimes used to describe things in comparison to the Seven Wonders of the World, the widely-known list of seven remarkable constructions of classical antiquity.