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, Hanging Gardens Of Babylon , Temple Of Artemis , Statue Of Zeus At Olympia , Mausoleum Of Maussollos , Colossus Of Rhodes and the Lighthouse Of Alexandria as depicted by 16th-century Dutch artist Marten Heemskerk ]] The 'Seven Wonders of the World' (or the '''Seven Wonders of the Ancient World''') is a widely-known list of seven remarkable manmade constructions of Classical Antiquity . It was based on guide-books popular among Hellenic sight-seers and only includes works located around the Mediterranean rim. Later Lists include those for the Medieval World and the Modern World. __TOC__ THE ORIGINAL SEVEN WONDERS The historian Herodotus ( 484 BC –ca. 425 BC ), and the scholar Callimachus of Cyrene (ca 305 – 240 BC ) at the Museum of Alexandria , made early lists of "seven wonders" but their writings have not survived, except as references. The earliest extant version of a list of seven wonders was compiled by Antipater Of Sidon , who described the structures in a poem around 140 BC : A later list, under various titles like ''De septem orbis spactaculis'' and traditionally misattributed to the engineer Philo Of Byzantium , may date as late as the fifth century AD, though the author writes as if the Colossus of Rhodes were still standing. These are given in the table below: The Greek category was not "Wonders" but "''theamata''", which translates closer to "must-sees". The list that we know today was compiled in the Middle Ages —by which time many of the sites were no longer in existence. Since the list came mostly from ancient Greek writings, only sites that would have been known and visited by the ancient Greeks were included. Even as early as 1600 BC, tourist Graffiti was scrawled on monuments in the Egyptian Valley Of The Kings . Antipater's original list replaced the Lighthouse of Alexandria with the Ishtar Gate . It was not until the 6th century AD that the list above was used. Of these wonders, the only one that has survived to the present day is the Great Pyramid of Giza. The existence of the Hanging Gardens has not been definitively proven. Records show that the other five wonders were destroyed by natural disasters. The Temple of Artemis and the Statue of Zeus were destroyed by fire, while the Lighthouse of Alexandria, Colossus, and Mausoleum of Maussollos were destroyed by earthquakes. There are sculptures from the Mausoleum of Maussollos and the Temple of Artemis in the British Museum in London . SEE ALSO
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