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| Place | Modern Country | Date built | lasted (in years) | Comments | |
| Great Pyramid | Giza | Egypt | 2580 BC | 4500 (at least!) | Only Wonder to survive |
| Hanging Gardens | Babylon | Iraq | ?600 BC | ? | Perhaps never existed |
| Statue of Zeus (Or Jupiter) | Olympia | Greece | 433 BC | ? | Site of Olympic Games (not Mt Olympus) |
| Temple of Artemis (or Diana) | Ephesus | Turkey | 560 BC | 800 | Largest temple of Classical Times |
| Tomb of King Mausolus | Halicarnassus | Turkey | 353 BC | 1700 | Gives name to "mausoleum" |
| Colossos enormous statue of Helios (Apollo) | Rhodes | Island in Mediterranean | 280 BC | 54 | Gives name to "colossal" |
| Pharos (lighthouse) | Alexandria | Egypt | 280 BC | 1600 | Alexandria was built by Alexander the Great |
The Seven Wonders of the World were described by Antipatros, a Greek historian, in the second century BC. None of them were Roman, but the Romans would have known about them. Only one survives today, one only lasted 54 years, and one may never have existed!