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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (from left to right, top to bottom): Great Pyramid of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (also known as the Mausoleum of Mausolus), Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria as depicted by 16th-century Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck.
The first reference to a list of seven such monuments was given by Diodorus Siculus. [5] [6] The epigrammist Antipater of Sidon, [7] who lived around or before 100 BC, [8] gave a list of seven "wonders", including six of the present list (substituting the walls of Babylon for the Lighthouse of Alexandria): [9]
The New 7 Wonders of the World was a campaign started in 2001 to choose Wonders of the World from a selection of 200 existing monuments. [1] The popularity poll via free web-based voting and telephone voting was led by Canadian-Swiss Bernard Weber [ 2 ] and organized by the New 7 Wonders Foundation (N7W) based in Zurich, Switzerland, with ...
New 7 Wonders of Nature (2007–2011) was an initiative started in 2007 to create a list of seven natural wonders chosen by people through a global poll. It was the second in a series of Internet-based polls led by Swiss-born Canadian Bernard Weber [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and organized by the New 7 Wonders Foundation [ 3 ] a Swiss-based foundation which ...
Seven Natural Wonders was established to protect the original vision and declaration of the seven natural wonders of the world. Their list [1] of the natural wonders includes: Aurora Borealis (also known as the northern lights) Grand Canyon, United States; Great Barrier Reef, Oceania; Harbor of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Mount Everest, Nepal and ...
Articles relating to the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a list of remarkable constructions of classical antiquity given by various authors in guidebooks or poems popular among ancient Hellenic tourists.
The Seven Wonders of Canada was a 2007 competition sponsored by CBC Television's The National and CBC Radio One's Sounds Like Canada.They sought to determine Canada's "seven wonders" by receiving nominations from viewers, and then from on-line voting of the short list.
The first list of natural wonders was compiled by state librarian Ella May Thornton and published in the Atlanta Georgian magazine on December 26, 1926. That first list included: [citation needed] Amicalola Falls; Jekyll Island Forest; Marble vein in Longswamp Valley in Pickens County; Okefenokee Swamp; Stone Mountain; Tallulah Gorge; Warm Springs