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"I have gazed on the surfaces of impregnable Babylon along which chariots may contest, and on the Zeus by the banking institutions of the Alpheus, I have seen the suspending gardens, and the Colossus of the Helios, the great man-made mountains of the lofty pyramids, and the gigantic tomb of Mausolus; but when I observed the sacred house of Artemis that towers to the clouds, the others were located in the tone, for sunlight himself hasn't looked after its equal exterior Olympus." - Antipater of Sidon Almost 2,000 years back, two ancient authors named Antipater of Sidon and Philo of Byzantium authored antiquity's most well-known guides. After the two Greeks possessed traveled throughout the Mediterranean, they published of what they regarded as the classical world's greatest development projects. Since there is still some question as to who actually authored the written text related to Philo and Antipater during its creation, their lists ended up comprising the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, igniting affinity for the methods they chosen and motivating subsequent generations to identify their era's own Seven Wonders. Effortlessly, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World may be considered something of an misnomer. Only one still stands (the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt), all existed in the Hellenistic culture alternatively than all around the globe, and relatively few people observed them or been to them. These were all architectural marvels of the past due Classical period and everything but two were created by the Greeks. All but one were in the Mediterranean area. Even so, they represented a widespread selection of works and civilizations and spread out across three different continents.
