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Sono sette monumenti dell'antichità che per le dimensioni imponenti e la straordinaria bellezza si sono guadagnati l'appellativo di "meraviglia". Il primo elenco con i nomi di questi capolavori compare in un frammento di papiro di età tolemaica (II secolo a.C.) che riporta elenchi di persone o cose significative. Il testo, noto come "Laterculi Alexandrini", menziona anche le Sette Meraviglie, ma si conservano soltanto tre nomi: le Piramidi, l'Artemision, il Mausoleo di Alicarnasso. Il più antico elenco completo è, invece, contenuto in un epigramma di Antipatro di Sidone, conservato in the Anthology Palatine, dating from the second century BC (some scholars would, instead, Antipater of Thessalonica, for which the date would fall by a century). Here are cited: the walls of Babylon, the Zeus of Olympia, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Pyramids of Egypt, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus and the Artemision of Ephesus. In this list appear in the walls of Babylon, long lists included in the oldest, and lacks the Lighthouse of Alexandria, built in the first half of the third century BC, will last on the list of ancient wonders and is absent in the early lists. There are also many Latin authors that mention the Seven Wonders, just think of Vitruvius (first century BC) and Pliny the Elder (first century AD). A certain variability of the list (while remaining fairly constant number seven) is also documented in Roman and late ancient: they are mentioned in the Palace of Cyrus Ecbatana, the Colosseum, the Capitol. The lack of a fixed fee goes to the Middle Ages and beyond, but the interest in Wonderland does not seem to ever stop and still attract the attention of historians, archaeologists, writers and fans, although many of them are lost.

The only one still intact is the pyramid of Cheops at Giza (Egypt). Served ten years to build and millions of blocks of stone brought from distant quarries also. Built during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu (2551-2520 a.C.), è alta 146,6 metri.
I giardini pensili di Babilonia (oggi in Iraq). Fatti costruire da Semiramide, nel IX secolo a.C., erano palazzi sulle cui terrazze crescevano fiori, alberi da frutta e zampillavano fontane. Secondo alcuni elenchi la meraviglia erano le mura di Babilonia, fatte costruire da Nabucodonosor nel VI secolo a.C.. Erano fatte di mattoni d'argilla e il muro orientale era spesso 12 metri. Non ne rimane nulla.
L'Artemision di Efeso (Turchia). Il tempio dedicato alla dea Artemide venne realizzato nel VI secolo a.C.: era largo 50 metri, lungo 109 e le sue colonne erano alte 19 metri. Rimangono le sue rovine.
La statua di Zeus ad Olimpia (Grecia). Scolpita dal greco Fidia, intorno alla metà del Fifth century BC, was made of gold and ivory and 12 meters high. It too has been lost. The tomb of Mausolus
at Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey). Mausoleum, King of Caria (first half of the fourth century BC), built as a tomb a palace of gold and marble (since he entered the mausoleum as a common language with the meaning, of course, the tomb), which became famous for the decorations. Some fragments of them are in the British Museum in London.
The Colossus of Rhodes. It was a giant bronze statue, 32 meters high, placed at the entrance of the port of Rhodes (Greece). Built by the sculptor Chares in 290 BC, represented the god Helios (sun). Is not nothing.
The Lighthouse of Alexandria Egypt. Built in the third century BC on a reef near the island of Faro (hence the name passed to all buildings of this type), was to monitor the port of Alexandria. The tower was 120-140 meters high. Several earthquakes did collapse, but remain underwater ruins.