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OCR: SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: The original Seven Wonders of the World were the foremost sights of the ancient world H listed by the second -century-BC writer Antipater of Sidon. What the criterion were for their choice and who picked the wonder unknown The magnificent seven were Pyramids of Giza: Includes the pyramids of Cheops (The Great P yramid) Chephren and Mycerinus a.s well as the Great Sphinx They are the oldest of the wonders and the only one of the seven substantially in existence today Hanging Gardens of Babylon: series of landscaped terraces built within the walls of the roval palace at Babylon (in southern lrac The gardens did not actually hang rather they were roof gardens laid out on series of terraces irrigated from the Euphrates River with pumps The gardens were built by eith ...