![]() ![]() Hagia Sophia, a 6th-century cathedral and mosque in Istanbul, Turkey.Great Wall of China, a series of defensive fortifications built across the historical northern borders of China, with some segments dating to as early as the 7th century BC.Colosseum, a 1st-century amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy.Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa, a 2nd-century funerary complex in Alexandria, Egypt.Typically representative of such lists are: Many of the structures on these lists were built much earlier than the Middle Ages but were well known throughout the world. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable refers to them as "later list", suggesting the lists were created after the Middle Ages. It is unlikely that any of these lists actually originated in the Middle Ages since the concept of a "Middle Age" did not become popular until at least the 16th century and the word " medieval" was not invented until the Enlightenment era. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, some writers emulated the classical list by creating their own lists with names such as "Wonders of the Middle Ages", "Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages", "Seven Wonders of the Medieval Mind", and "Architectural Wonders of the Middle Ages". Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, in the city of Ephesus, near present-day Selçuk, Turkey.Statue of Zeus at Olympia, in Olympia, Greece.Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, in Halicarnassus, a city of the Achaemenid Empire in present-day Turkey.Lighthouse of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt.Hanging Gardens of Babylon, in Babylon, near present-day Hillah, Babil province, Iraq or Nineveh, Mosul, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq.Colossus of Rhodes, in the harbor of the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name.Great Pyramid of Giza, in El Giza, Egypt, the earliest of the wonders to be completed, as well as the only one that still exists in the present day.These lists have not survived, however, except as references in other writings. 305–240 BC), at the Museum of Alexandria, made early lists of seven wonders. 425 BC) and the scholar Callimachus of Cyrene (c. Main article: Seven Wonders of the Ancient World The Great Pyramid of Giza, the only wonder of the ancient world still in existence ![]()
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