Name the 7 wonders? There’s the pyramids... and, er...

Just 6 per cent can list the lot and three quarters call them ‘boring’

THEY were the remarkable creations that dazzled the ancients.

But in modern Britain, one in ten people cannot name a single one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

Some 61 per cent managed to name one – usually the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt – according to a survey. A paltry 21 per cent were capable of coming up with a second and 12 per cent could not name any at all. Only 6 per cent of Britons can name them all.

However, it is probably not surprising that many are left flummoxed as most of the sites were destroyed by earthquakes and only the Great Pyramid of Giza still stands. The pharaoh’s tomb, completed around 2550Bc, is the largest pyramid ever built, incorporating around 2.3million stone blocks.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were said to have been laid out on an artificial mountain in Iraq on the east bank of the Euphrates from around 600Bc. Legend has it that they were destroyed by an earthquake, but some experts doubt whether they ever existed.

Just under half of those questioned by travel agency Bonvoyage.co.uk said they had learned all seven wonders at school but had forgotten them. More than three quarters of the 2,486 participants said they found the ancient monuments ‘boring’.

As a result the company asked people to come up with seven new modern wonders. They included the Statue of Liberty, the Grand canyon, Niagara Falls, the Great Barrier Reef, Table Mountain, the Northern Lights and Mount Vesuvius.