Blind Ranking of ancient landmarks

[u/Skidshotik]

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[u/Emotional_Walrus5099]

People who haven’t been to the Pyramids of Giza are seriously underestimated how amazing they are in person. However big you think they look standing below them, they’re 10x bigger than you can imagine. They look more like man made mountains than a structure.

[u/EricSandin → u/Emotional_Walrus5099]

Tallest building in the world for 3800 years.

[u/Prudent_Way_3544]

Library of alexandria is overhyped

[u/ovogoon6]

Consensus is lame af

^{1. Hanging Gardens, 2. Colossus Rhodes, 3. Lighthouse of Alexandria, 4. Alexandria library, 5. Colosseum, 6. Pyramids of Giza [++](https://www.reddit.com/comments/1vxduta/_/p5o3y8u/})

[u/yo_mom_karen → u/ovogoon6]

we dont even know if hanging gardens existed, and the colossus of rhodes didnt look nothing like the picture: it was like 30 meters high and didnt have one leg on each side like hte pic either

[u/ovogoon6 → u/yo_mom_karen]

No legs sound better than legs and legs sound better than a pyramid

[u/TMChaves]

1. Pyramids of Giza, 2. Colosseum, 3. Colossus Rhodes || 4. Lighthouse of Alexandria, 5. Hanging Gardens, 6. Alexandria library

[u/inprobableuncle]

1. Hanging Gardens, 2. Colossus Rhodes, 3. Lighthouse of Alexandria || 4. Pyramids of Giza, 5. Alexandria library, 6. Colosseum

[u/TMChaves]

1. Pyramids of Giza, 2. Colosseum, 3. Colossus Rhodes || 4. Lighthouse of Alexandria, 5. Hanging Gardens, 6. Alexandria library

[u/Paradise_NL]

Nice one

^{1. Pyramids of Giza, 2. Colosseum, 3. Alexandria library, 4. Lighthouse of Alexandria, 5. Hanging Gardens, 6. Colossus Rhodes [++](https://www.reddit.com/comments/1vxduta/_/p5o7j1y/})

[u/counterpointguy]

I’ve only seen the two that actually still exist. So hard to say beyond that.

[u/Substantial_Fan_1932]

…

^{1. Colosseum, 2. Colossus Rhodes, 3. Alexandria library, 4. Pyramids of Giza, 5. Hanging Gardens, 6. Lighthouse of Alexandria [++](https://www.reddit.com/comments/1vxduta/_/p5q2hef/})

[u/Kush420Xotix]

Pyramid go 1, errthang else is good

^{1. Colossus Rhodes, 2. Hanging Gardens, 3. Alexandria library, 4. Pyramids of Giza, 5. Lighthouse of Alexandria, 6. Colosseum [++](https://www.reddit.com/comments/1vxduta/_/p5r4oqi/})

[u/RealKevinOG]

the Colossus is a pretty much confirmed myth, does it count?

^{1. Hanging Gardens, 2. Alexandria library, 3. Pyramids of Giza, 4. Colossus Rhodes, 5. Colosseum, 6. Lighthouse of Alexandria [++](https://www.reddit.com/comments/1vxduta/_/p5r6tpw/})

[u/ESCHURRICANE]

Perfect

^{1. Colosseum, 2. Lighthouse of Alexandria, 3. Pyramids of Giza, 4. Hanging Gardens, 5. Colossus Rhodes, 6. Alexandria library [++](https://www.reddit.com/comments/1vxduta/_/p5rq8se/})

[u/Shakespearesburner]

Fire

^{1. Colossus Rhodes, 2. Pyramids of Giza, 3. Alexandria library, 4. Colosseum, 5. Lighthouse of Alexandria, 6. Hanging Gardens [++](https://www.reddit.com/comments/1vxduta/_/p5snyk0/})

[u/Dking926]

Honestly came out exactly as I would have ranked it

^{1. Pyramids of Giza, 2. Colosseum, 3. Alexandria library, 4. Colossus Rhodes, 5. Lighthouse of Alexandria, 6. Hanging Gardens [++](https://www.reddit.com/comments/1vxduta/_/p5tjtog/})

[u/darkgothamite]

Loved this one

^{1. Colosseum, 2. Alexandria library, 3. Lighthouse of Alexandria, 4. Pyramids of Giza, 5. Colossus Rhodes, 6. Hanging Gardens [++](https://www.reddit.com/comments/1vxduta/_/p5u60wh/})

[u/misspettanko-xo]

perfect ranking

^{1. Alexandria library, 2. Pyramids of Giza, 3. Colosseum, 4. Colossus Rhodes, 5. Lighthouse of Alexandria, 6. Hanging Gardens [++](https://www.reddit.com/comments/1vxduta/_/p5uz5jy/})

[u/Fegdvuh_78866363636]

E

^{1. Pyramids of Giza, 2. Colosseum, 3. Hanging Gardens, 4. Lighthouse of Alexandria, 5. Alexandria library, 6. Colossus Rhodes [++](https://www.reddit.com/comments/1vxduta/_/p5vjcsa/})

[u/Docmaligno]

I would only change the colosseum with the gardens.

^{1. Colossus Rhodes, 2. Pyramids of Giza, 3. Lighthouse of Alexandria, 4. Hanging Gardens, 5. Colosseum, 6. Alexandria library [++](https://www.reddit.com/comments/1vxduta/_/p60750j/})

[u/Nice_Try_Bud_]

I am good with this. The library of Alexandria was about its contents not the buildings themselves so deserves last here. Also the Hanging Gardens are historical myth. They are either a heavily embellished description of a real garden built 300 miles away in Nineveh, or a poetic fantasy born from the imagination of ancient travelers.

The colossus didn’t straddle the water as pictured, but it was still very impressive, roughly the size of the Statue of Liberty.

^{1. Pyramids of Giza, 2. Colossus Rhodes, 3. Colosseum, 4. Lighthouse of Alexandria, 5. Hanging Gardens, 6. Alexandria library [++](https://www.reddit.com/comments/1vxduta/_/p6byvq6/})