<P> The historian Herodotus (484--ca . 425 BC) and the scholar Callimachus of Cyrene (ca . 305--240 BC), at the Museum of Alexandria, made early lists of seven wonders . Their writings have not survived, except as references . </P> <P> The classic seven wonders were: </P> <Ul> <Li> Colossus of Rhodes </Li> <Li> Great Pyramid of Giza </Li> <Li> Hanging Gardens of Babylon </Li> <Li> Lighthouse of Alexandria </Li> <Li> Mausoleum at Halicarnassus </Li> <Li> Statue of Zeus at Olympia </Li> <Li> Temple of Artemis at Ephesus </Li> </Ul> <Li> Colossus of Rhodes </Li>

The great wall of china one of the seven wonders