Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

There are plenty of submerged wonders still waiting to be discovered

The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, which is one of the seven wonders of the world and whose ruins were looted after being destroyed by the Goths in 263 and which no one could see as a whole, has been revived in the digital world.

Another vandal act with a Bulgarian origin on one of the Seven Wonders of the World has outraged users of social networks.

The inscription "Loko 2019" appeared on the The Great Pyramid of Giza. This shocked Bulgarian tourists who visited the tourist landmark in Egypt on January 5th. and they make photographs of the inscription carved in the ancient stone.

A project prepared by the Culture and Tourism Ministry to transform the area of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World, into an open air museum, was presented at a meeting on July 14. 

The island of Rhodes, the “Kállisti” (trnslt. “the most beautiful”) of the Greek cities as ancient historians liked to call it, has long attracted the attention of the world due to its beautiful beaches, rich history and advanced civilization.

Rhodes was a city with philosophical and ritual schools, conservatories, markets, stadiums, harbours and at least 3,000 statues.

I attended a banquet the other evening within the framework of the Bodrum International Mausoleum Workshop held in Bodrum, in the southwestern province of Muğla. The talk of the evening was the restitution project of King Mausolus' tomb that is listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, also known as the tomb of King Mausolus, located in the western province of Muğla's Bodrum district and listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is set to be restituted along with works to open the way from Bodrum Harbor to the tomb have been initiated. 

In western Peloponnese, in the beautiful valley of the Alpheios river, lies the most celebrated sanctuary of ancient Greece.

Dedicated to Zeus, the father of the gods, it sprawls over the southwest foot of Mount Kronios, at the confluence of the Alpheios and the Kladeos rivers, in a lush, green landscape.

The ambitious Colossus of Rhodes project has brought together young professionals from Greece, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom in the hope of reviving one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that had been erected on the Greek island of Rhodes in 280 BC to celebrate the island’s victory of the ruler of CyprusCyprus, Antigonus I Monophthalmus.

The 9th International Sand Sculpture Festival has opened in the southern province of Antalya's Lara beach. This year the festival was organized around the theme of the Seven Wonders of the World and mythology.