The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

The historian Herodotus (484 BC–ca. 425 BC), and the academic Callimachus of Cyrene (ca 305–240 BC) at the Museum of Alexandria, made early on lists of "Seven wonders" however their writings have not survived, except as references. Their wonders incorporated the Great Pyramid of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Colossus of Rhodes and Lighthouse of Alexandria.

The Greek type was not "Wonders" but "theamata", which translates nearer to "must-sees". The list that we make out at present was compiled in the Middle Ages—by which time many of the sites were no longer in survival. At present, the only ancient world wonder that still exists is the Great Pyramid of Giza.