Although most people know that a list exists of the Seven 
Wonders of the World, but only a few can name them. The 
list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was 
originally compiled around the second century BC. But the 
final list of the Seven Wonders was compiled during the 
Middle Ages which comprised of the seven most impressive 
monuments of the Ancient World, some of which did not even 
survive to the Middle Ages. 
The Seven Wonders are the evidence of the power of humans 
to change the scenery of thier surroundings by building 
massive yet beautiful structures, one of which has stood 
the test of time to this very day. 

The  following, dating from about the 6th century AD, are 
the Seven Wonders of the World: (1) the pyramids of Egypt; 
(2) the Hanging Gardens of Babylon; (3) the statue of Zeus 
at Olympia; (4) the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus; (5) the 
templeof Artemis (Diana) at Ephesus; (6) the Colossus of 
Rhodes; and (7) the Pharos (lighthouse)of Alexandria.

1) The Pyramids of Egypt, built at Giza during the 4th 
Dynasty (circa 2680-c.2544 BC) are the oldest of the seven 
wonders and the only ones remaining intact today. They were 
built between 2650 and 2500 BC. 
Located in Giza on the west bank of the Nile River, near 
Cairo, the pyramids remain one of the engineering marvels 
of all time.

2) The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, perhaps built by King 
Nebuchadnezzar II about 600 BC, were a mountain like series 
of planted terraces.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon have long since disappeared. 
They were said to have been built by King Nebuchadnezzarin 
the 6th century BC to please and console his favorite wife, 
Amytis. Great terraces were built one on top of the other 
and gardens of tropical flowers and trees were planted on 
themwhich were irrigated by water pumped from the Euphrates 
River. 

(3) Statue of Olympian Zeus was erected at Olympia, in the 
Peloponnesus of Greece, by the great 
sculptor Phidias in the 5th century BC. It was a towering 
structure of ivory and gold, 40 feet high, majestic and 
beautiful.
After about 10 centuries of existence the statue was 
destroyed. 

4) The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus in Greece (356 BC), 
which combined great size with 
elaborate ornamentation, was destroyed by the Goths in AD 
262. 
It is said to have taken 120years to complete. This great 
temple was set on fire in 356 BC on the night Alexander the 
Great was born, according to tradition. The crime was 
committed by one Herostratus merely so that his name might 
be remembered in after ages.

(5) The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus (circa 353 BC) was a 
monumental marble tomb for King Mausolus of Caria in Asia 
Minor.
After his death in the middle of the 4th century BC, his 
queen, Artemisia, employed Greek architects to construct a 
superb monument over his remains. So famous was this 
structure that the word mausoleum came to be applied to any 
monumental tomb. 

6) The Colossus of Rhodes was a 30-m (100-ft) bronze statue 
of the Greek Sun God Helios, erected about 280 BC to guard 
the entrance to the harbor at Rhodes; it was destroyed 
about 55 years later. 
The Colossus of Rhodes was a great bronze statue, erected 
by the citizens of Rhodes, capital of the Greek island of 
the same name. The statue was overthrown by an earthquake 
in 224 BC but its  huge fragments were regarded with wonder 
for a long time. Nearly a thousand years later, in AD 656, 
a Muslim dealer bought the fragments as old metal and 
carried them away to be melted down.

7) The Pharos of Alexandria (circa 280 BC), located on an 
island in the harbor of Alexandria, Egypt, was a famous 
ancient lighthouse standing more than 134m (440ft) tall; it 
was destroyed in 
the 14th century.
The Pharos of Alexandria, in Egypt, was the forerunner of 
modern lighthouses. The name belonged originally to an 
island lying off the coast. When Alexander the Great laid 
out the city he connected the island of Pharos with the 
mainland by means of a mole, or causeway.
On the eastern point of the island his successors, Ptolemy 
I and Ptolemy II, erected a great lighthouse made of white 
marble. It was this structure, said to have been 400 feet 
high, that came to be known as the Pharos of Alexandria. 
For more than 1,000 years the lighthouse known as Pharos of 
Alexandria guided Mediterranean ships to harbor. Built for 
Ptolemy II of Egypt in about 280 BC, the lighthouse was 
severely damaged by an earthquake in AD 955 and disappeared 
completely by 1500.