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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Why 7 wonders of the world? In ancient times, the number seven held a special symbolic value. As a prime number, it represented perfection and completeness. The number is also associated with the ...