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6 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Classical (Hekatomnid Carian) · Carian-Hellenic dynastic
Podium terrace of Aristotle's pupil Satrap Mausolus' wonder-tomb 353 BCE in Bodrum, 45-m wonder with 36 Ionic columns.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
Neo-Babylonian claimed 600 BCE; Assyrian alternative 700 BCE · Babylonian or Assyrian (Neo-Assyrian Sennacherib)
Unlocated wonder: Nebuchadnezzar's terraces vs Dalley's Nineveh screw garden.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Hellenistic Ptolemaic 297–280 BCE · Greek (Ptolemaic Alexandria)
100-m Ptolemaic lighthouse wonder whose lantern guided ancient Mediterranean.
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Hellenistic 292–280 BCE; destroyed 226 BCE · Greek Rhodian (Hellenistic)
33-m bronze sun-god toppled by earthquake 54 years after raising.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Archaeic Greek to Roman Imperial 10th c. BCE–3rd c. CE, Artemision 550 BCE · Greek Ionian then Roman
Roman Asian capital with Artemis Wonder remnant and Library of Celsus.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Only surviving Wonder of Ancient World: 146.6 m limestone pyramid of Khufu (Cheops), 2580–2560 BCE, 2.3 million blocks, internal King's Chamber with relieving chambers and ascending/descending…
