The ancients have been method forward of us. Pondering what we now name the Seven Wonders of the Historical World, the Greek author Philo of Byzantium (circa fifth or sixth century CE, and the second author to name himself that) was an early proponent of not going there. Alexander the Nice’s Close to East conquests, between 330 and 323 BCE, whetted Greek appetites for journey — or at the least a craving for it. Writers and thinkers of historical Greece tended to restrict their groupings of admired monuments to seven — a preoccupation derived from Mesopotamian civilization, which seen that quantity as possessed of mystical properties. Get At present in…