Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, as described by World Book, the Pyramids of Egypt are the only ones visible to the people of our planet today.

Three of the Wonders were destroyed by earthquakes many generations ago. These included the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, meant to be the tomb of Mausolus, a Persian ruler.  The second, The Colossus of Rhodes, a statue that was built to honor Helios, the sun god.  The third was the Lighthouse (Pharos) of Alexandria.

The Temple of Artemis was burned to the ground twice.  The second time it was burned on purpose by the Goths.  The statue of Zeus in Olympia, simply disappeared.  (My take on it is that it was probably due to the fact it was made of gold and ivory.  Can't you see it in the hands of today's chop shop artists or our copper thieves?)

The exact location of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon has never been solved.  It is not possible to identify the remains of this great wonder in our time.

Statues and pieces of some of these beautiful structures can be viewed in the British Museum in London.

Don't you question what will be the great wonders of our time several thousand years from now when this will be viewed as part of the ancient world?