Explore the 7 Wonders of the World—ancient and modern. Learn where they are, when to visit, and how to plan your next ...

The ancestor of all “best-of” lists was the Hellenistic accounting of monumental must-sees. Only one remains in anything like ...

The Pyramids of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, stand as Egypt's most iconic landmarks and a testament ...

Among them, some were picked, analyzed, and deemed to be the seven wonders of the world. These monuments are the contributions of civilizations from ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cultures.

The notion of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World can be traced back to the fifth century B.C. These creations rivaled many created by nature in their size, majesty, and beauty. Six of the ...

Do you know about the New Seven Wonders of the World?In 2000, a Swiss foundation started a campaign to select the New Seven ...

Travellers from Ancient Greece, exploring the empires that surrounded the Mediterranean, took note of the spectacular sights they saw. It is from their writings, that a list of the Seven Wonders ...

Watch the first episode of BBC One’s Sacred Wonders on Wednesday 7th August at 9pm or catch up on iPlayer. Angkor is a vast complex of over 70 temples, the remains of an ancient city that is ...

Imagine unpacking just once then getting to enjoy islands dripping with beauty and mythology (in Europe), biblical lost cities (in Asia), and the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ...

Award-winning historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes explores the seven wonders of the world and asks why we create and why we remember the wonder of others.

The city was famous for its Hanging Gardens, which were among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The site has suffered in recent years - first from the construction of a palace for Saddam ...

In her learned and insightful survey, “The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World,” the classicist Bettany Hughes traces the time-honored enumeration of man-made wonders to the period following ...