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Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World may never have existed at all?
Excavation has never found them, and Babylon's own detailed records are silent; scholars suspect Sennacherib's Nineveh gardens filed under the wrong city. Only the Great Pyramid survives.
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World The Seven Wonders were the Hellenistic world's canonical sightseeing list: the Great Pyramid, the Hanging Gardens, the Statue of Zeus, the Temple of Artemis, the Mausoleum, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Only the pyramid survives; one wonder may never have existed at all.
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