History of Seven Wonders of World

The 'Seven Wonders of the World' is a widely-known list of seven outstanding manmade constructions of classical relics. Seven Wonders of the World was based on guide-books popular among Hellenic sight-seers and only includes works located around the Mediterranean rim. Later record include those for the Medieval World and the Modern World.

The historian Herodotus (484 BC–ca. 425 BC), and the scholar Callimachus of Cyrene (ca 305–240 BC) at the Museum of Alexandria, were the first to make the list of "seven wonders". But now only references have survived. The earliest existing version of a list of seven wonders was accumulated by Antipater of Sidon, who portrayed the structures in a poem around 140 BC.