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Excerpt from The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 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 Won ders ought to have looked were chiey imaginary. Research among their ruins has not only revealed their history, and made their reconstruction possible, but has taught us why they were the wonders of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.