…. this story has been around the blogosphere before. There is an organization that is trying to create a new list of the “Seven Wonders of the World” and they are pretty much talking ancient world here.

Here’s the thing. The “Seven Wonders of the World” was a list made up in the actual ancient world itself. Philon of Byzantium came up with this about 2,200 years ago. In my mind, changing this list is obnoxious. If we want to come up with a new list of cool things in the ancient world, we can do that. But the original list of the Seven Wonders is not a David Letterman list, it is in and of itself a document, an historical thing, a bit of a wonder in and of itself. The “Seven Wonders of the Ancient World” … the list … cannot be changed any more than you can go back and change a speech given by Thomas Jefferson.

So I oppose this new list.

Here’s the thing. You can vote on what you think should be on the new list. (There is less than two weeks time before the vote is to be finished.) I would suggest going to this site and voting on the original seven, but they won’t let you. It seems that they are only letting you vote on things that still exist, and are therefore tourist attractions.

There are two ways to vote. One is by paying them $2.00 . The other way is by giving them information about yourself that they will likely use to sell you tourist packages to, who knows, maybe the very sites you voted for. As far as I can tell, this is all a trick to get you to visit their site and maybe click on an ad. Or at least, it looks that way to me.

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World are:

1. Great Pyramids of Giza
2. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
3. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
4. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
5. Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
6. Colossus of Rhodes
7. Lighthouse of Alexandria

This will always be true.

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