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3005 BCE

Past → now. Now is 2026, the corpus’s latest recorded state · 1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld) · 865 unlocated

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The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

The idea, not any one building: a fixed set of seven marvels, all of them within reach of a Greek traveller in the eastern Mediterranean and Near East, five of them Greek work.

No recorded place · c. late 2nd century BCE – present (as a transmitted canon)

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  • is authored earliest surviving version of of Antipater of SidonGreek Anthology 9.58, attributed to Antipater, is the oldest surviving text that gathers seven marvels into one list.
  • is sole survivor of of Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)It is the only entry on the ancient canon that still stands, and it predates the other six by roughly two thousand years.
  • is postdates of Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), RomeThe Colosseum opened in AD 80, roughly two centuries after Antipater's epigram, so it could not have been a candidate for the ancient canon.

865 objects have no place. See why, and how they relate insteada coordinate they do not have would be a claim, not a kindness. The count is corpus-wide; no lens or window changes it.One more object is located but its mark is withheld: the coordinate is declared, not yet verified, and an unverified pin reads as a fact.

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1145 objects · 37 Knowledge Journeys · 852 recorded dated events (3005 BCE2026), 51 imprecisely dated, and 16 declared future targets (a target never moves Now) · 280 located (1 of them withheld pending verification), 865 unlocated

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