Terrace of the Lions, Delos belongs to the years before the Common Era — dated here to c. 600 BCE at Delos, Greece. The date is a scholarly centre of gravity, not a foundation-stone timestamp.
Naxian marble lions once lined the Sacred Lake, a row of guardians for Apollo’s birth-island.
How it was made
Archaic stiffness, weathered manes. Originals are indoors; replicas hold the wind.
Why it still counts as a wonder
It never needed a Greek list to be a wonder: the labour, the alignment, or the survival is enough.
Delos as a whole is the wonder — a sacred freeport. The lions are its remaining pack.
On dating
BCE in this series means years before the traditional birth of Christ, counted backward. A monument listed as c. 600 BCE may have been founded earlier, rebuilt later, or famous only in one phase. Where ancient writers disagree — as they do for Babylon’s gardens — we say so.
This is story 64 of 100 in The Trend Ledger’s illustrated desk on world wonders raised before the Common Era.