This series of posts was originally sent to This Modern World in the summer of 2004, as I visited the sites of six of Pliny's original "seven wonders" of the ancient world:


The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which supposedly sat in what is now smack-dab in the center of Iraq, got a pass for now, thanks all the same.

Along the way, I also got to visit the Acropolis in Athens, the excavation site which is supposedly ancient Troy, Istanbul, modern Cairo, and a whole bunch of neat stuff.

The entries here aren't specific to the above sites (and barely even mention several), but are simply a few short notes sent home in the middle of all the running around. I'm still putting together all the notes and emails and photos from the main events, which I hope to get published as a book in the coming year.