Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Abstract

surviving from ancient times; it ignored the valu- able results of modern research.Early travellers were fond of describing the Seven Wonders; the generations of the past two thousand years have talked about them and won- dered, but it is to the archaeological explorer of the past few decades that we are indebted for our more trustworthy information.The material collected for the contemplated magazine article expanded wonderfully.Generally accepted fan- cies were found to be erroneous.The old familiar pictures of how it was thought the Seven Wonders ought to have looked were chiefly imaginary.Research among their ruins has not only revealed their history >f f and made

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