History UsefulNotes / SevenWondersOfTheWorld

There are many other examples. Making up Lists of Seven Wonders of (whatever) with real or fictional items, is popular in itself. Many groups and organizations have formed lists of Seven Wonders of the Medieval/Modern/Natural world, though none of them are held as "official" the way the list of Wonders of the Ancient World is. Wiki/TheOtherWiki has a compilation of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_Modern_World various famous lists of wonders]].

* The Lighthouse of Alexandria / The Ishtar Gate (destroyed by an earthquake in 1303/ destroyed sometimes after 1st century AD by an earthquake)[[note]]The earliest lists had the gates. The later, more well known one replaced them with the lighthouse.[[/note]]

* LivingStatue: If it looks human, one of the Wonders will be shown talking or moving in SOME story -- the Colossus of Rhodes, for example, is an early BossBattle in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII''.

* LivingStatue: If it looks human, one of the Wonders will be shown talking or moving in SOME story.

* MonumentalDamage

* AncientGreece: Several of the Wonders were built there.
** In fact, five out of seven of the Wonders were built by the Greeks. [[CreatorProvincialism Gee, I wonder why.]]

* The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (said to be destroyed sometimes after 1st century AD by an earthquake, see note)[[note]]Their existence is a point of debate in historians, as there are no contemporary accounts or archaeological evidence of the gardens' existence. Multiple theories regarding the origin of the legends have been offered, including that the gardens were confused with the gardens of the Assyrian king Sennacherib (reigned 705 – 681 BC) for his palace at Nineveh, and misattributed to Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar II.[[/note]]

'''The Seven Wonders of the World''' are lists of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the seven most amazing things on Earth]] -- as in, things mankind has created that are considered examples of our greatest feats. Can be considered as RealLife listings of humanity’s {{Crowning Moment}}s. Many of the Wonders have become iconic images across the World today and so show up often in fiction as well; they are often destroyed, animated or stolen. Some can even be considered to be TropeMakers on their own.

* BrieferThanTheyThink: All Seven Wonders existed simultaneously for less than sixty years. And that's only if you [[TheseusShipParadox count the reconstructed post-Herostratus version of the Temple of Artemis]]. If not, the Seven Wonders wouldn't exist simultaneously ''at all''.

* The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (destroyed in 356 BC by arson by the Greek Herostratus, who did it solely to get his name into the history books)

* BrieferThanTheyThink: All Seven Wonders existed simultaneously for less than sixty years. And that's only if you count the reconstructed post-Herostratus version of the Temple of Artemis, without which they wouldn't exist simultaneously ''at all''.

There are many other examples. Making up Lists of Seven Wonders of (whatever) with real or fictional items, is popular in itself. Many groups and organizations have formed lists of Seven Wonders of the Medieval/Modern/Natural world, though none of them are held as "official" the way the list of Wonders of the Ancient World is. TheOtherWiki has a compilation of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_Modern_World various famous lists of wonders]].

* EiffelTowerEffect: Some of the Wonders of the World, particularly the Great Pyramids (the only surviving one) are often used as part of an EstablishingShot to let audience know where (and, for the no-longer extant ones, ''when'') the story is taking place.

* EiffelTowerEffect: Some of the Wonders of the World, particularly the Great Pyramids (the only surviving one) are often used as part of an EstablishingShot to let audience know where the story is taking place.

'''The Seven Wonders of the World''' are lists of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the seven most amazing things on Earth]] -- as in, things mankind has created that are considered examples of our greatest feats. Can be considered as RealLife listings of humanity’s [[CrowningMoment Crowning Moments]]. Many of the Wonders have become iconic images across the World today and so show up often in fiction as well; they are often destroyed, animated or stolen. Some can even be considered to be TropeMakers on their own.

The first lists are now referred to as the Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World one, compiled by Creator/{{Herodotus}} (484 – ca. 425 BC), and the scholar Callimachus of Cyrene (ca. 305 – 240 BC) at the Museum of Alexandria. The original term was actually Seven Sights of the World. No copy of either of their writings on these lists have survived, but they were referenced by many other figures in the Middle Ages, allowing us to know to this day the monuments that figured on the lists. They listed the following:

* The Statue of Zeus at Olympia (removed to Constantinople, where it was destroyed in a fire c. 400 AD)

* The Colossus of Rhodes (destroyed by an earthquake in 226 BC, the ruined statue was later melted down and sold for scrap in 653 AD)

* The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (destroyed in 356 BC by arson by the Greek Herostatus, who did it solely to get his name into the history books)

The first lists are now referred to as the Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World one, compiled by Creator/{{Herodotus}} (484 – ca. 425 BCE), and the scholar Callimachus of Cyrene (ca. 305 – 240 BCE) at the Museum of Alexandria. The original term was actually Seven Sights of the World. No copy of either of their writings on these lists have survived, but they were referenced by many other figures in the Middle Ages, allowing us to know to this day the monuments that figured on the lists. They listed the following:

* The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (said to be destroyed sometimes after 1st century CE by an earthquake, see note)[[note]]Their existence is a point of debate in historians, as there are no contemporary accounts or archaeological evidence of the gardens' existence. Multiple theories regarding the origin of the legends have been offered, including that the gardens were confused with the gardens of the Assyrian king Sennacherib (reigned 705 – 681 BC) for his palace at Nineveh, and misattributed to Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar II.[[/note]]
* The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (destroyed in 356 BCE by arson by the Greek Herostatus, who did it solely to get his name into the history books)
* The Statue of Zeus at Olympia (removed to Constantinople, where it was destroyed in a fire c. 400 CE)
* The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus (destroyed by an earthquake around 12th to 15th Century CE)
* The Colossus of Rhodes (destroyed by an earthquake in 226 BCE, the ruined statue was later melted down and sold for scrap in 653 CE)
* The Lighthouse of Alexandria / The Ishtar Gate (destroyed by an earthquake in 1303/ destroyed sometimes after 1st century CE by an earthquake)[[note]]The earliest lists had the gates. The later, more well known one replaced them with the lighthouse.[[/note]]

* [[ThePyramids The Great Pyramid of Giza]]
* The Hanging Gardens of Babylon[[note]]Their existence is a point of debate in historians, as there are no contemporary accounts or archaeological evidence of the gardens' existence. Multiple theories regarding the origin of the legends have been offered, including that the gardens were confused with the gardens of the Assyrian king Sennacherib (reigned 705 – 681 BC) for his palace at Nineveh, and misattributed to Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar II.[[/note]]
* The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
* The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
* The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
* The Colossus of Rhodes
* The Lighthouse of Alexandria / The Ishtar Gate[[note]]The earliest lists had the gates. The later, more well known one replaced them with the lighthouse.[[/note]]

* ShroudedInMyth: Very much so. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon may not have even existed. With the exception of the Great Pyramid, none of the Wonders survived long enough to be studied by anyone resembling an archaeologist, so that is somewhat inevitable.

* The Hanging Gardens of Babylon[[hottip:*:Their existence is a point of debate in historians, as there are no contemporary accounts or archaeological evidence of the gardens' existence. Multiple theories regarding the origin of the legends have been offered, including that the gardens were confused with the gardens of the Assyrian king Sennacherib (reigned 705 – 681 BC) for his palace at Nineveh, and misattributed to Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar II.]]

* The Lighthouse of Alexandria / The Ishtar Gate[[hottip:*:The earliest lists had the gates. The later, more well known one replaced them with the lighthouse.]]