The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

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1. Story
2. 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. The canon was never stable in antiquity. Antipater's version includes the walls of Babylon; later versions swap them for the Lighthouse of Alexandria. The number seven appears to have been chosen before the contents were settled. Treating it as a fixed and ancient list is a modern habit.
3. Knowledge
4. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
5. Antipater of Sidon
6. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
7. Connections
8. Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
9. Hanging Gardens (of Babylon, or of Nineveh)
10. Lighthouse of Alexandria (the Pharos)
11. Colossus of Rhodes
12. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision)
13. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
14. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
15. Philo of Byzantium (the Paradoxographer)
16. Antipater of Sidon
17. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
18. Antipater of Sidon writes the earliest surviving list of seven wonders
19. UNESCO publicly disowns the New7Wonders campaign
20. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
21. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
22. Antipater of Sidon writes the earliest surviving list of seven wonders
23. The voussoir arch
24. Roman concrete (opus caementicium)
25. Rome
26. New7Wonders Foundation
27. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
28. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
29. Inauguration of the Flavian Amphitheatre
30. The Colosseum opens: arch and concrete at civic scale
31. Evidence
32. The earliest surviving text assembling seven marvels into a single list, and evidence that the canon originally included the walls of Babylon rather than the Lighthouse of Alexandria.
33. The fullest ancient description of the wonders as a set, written centuries after most had been ruined, and by a later Paradoxographer rather than the 3rd-century BCE engineer Philo Mechanicus.