The Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World

Most of the people know the existence of the of The Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World, but few can name it. A survey is carried out in our school and we found out that only 1% of the students are able to list out a few of it. We doubted that the teachers are able to list out all of them.

The Seven Wonders of The Ancient World refers to the remarkable constructions of classical antiquity  listed by various authors in guidebooks that are popular among the ancient Hellenic tourists, particularly in the 1st and 2nd centuries BC. The list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was originally compiled around the second century BC. The first reference to the idea is found in History of Herodotus as long ago as the 5th century BC. Decades later, Greek historians wrote about the greatest monuments at the time. Callimachus of Cyrene (305BC-240BC), Chief Librarian of the Alexandria Mouseion, wrote "A Collection of Wonders around the World". All we know about the collection is its title, for it was destroyed with the Alexandria Library.

The final list of the Seven Wonders was compiled during the Middle Ages. The list comprised the seven most impressive monuments of the Ancient World, some of which barely survived to the Middle Ages. Others did not even co-exist. Among the oldest references to the canonical list are the engravings by the Dutch artist Maerten van Heemskerck (1498-1574), and Johann Fischer von Erlach's “History of Architecture.”

The latest list of the Seven Wonders of The Ancient World includes The Great Pyramid of Giza, The Hanging Garden of Babylon, Temple of Artemis, Statue of Zeus, Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Colossus of Rhodes and The Lighthouse of Alexandria.