Seven Wondersofthe World

Seven Wonders of the World, THE, a name applied after the time of Alexander the Great to the seven most splendid monuments of the ancient world, viz. the Pyramids of Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the temple of Diana at Ephesus, the statue of the Olympian Zeus at Athens, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Pharos (or lighthouse) of Alexandria.