Why was the great wall of china not on the original seven wonders of the world?

Question

Why was the great wall of china not on the original seven wonders of the world?

Answer 1

The very first list of wonders of the world were written before the Wall was even built.  It was written by  Herodotus.  There have been many lists.  The Great wall of China is on the seven greatest wonders of the medieval world.

Answer 2

The Great Wall of China was not on the original seven wonders of the world, because the ORIGINAL Seven Wonders of the World (what we today refer to as "The  Seven Wonders of the Ancient World"), were selected before the Greeks were familiar with the Far East and China. In addition, although it was begun as early as the 7th century B.C.,  a good bit of the present Great Wall was yet to be constructed in that time (completed in the 14th through the 17th century.)

"The historian Herodotus (484 BC–ca. 425 BC), and the scholar Callimachus of Cyrene (ca 305–240 BC) at the Museum of Alexandria, made early lists of "seven wonders" but their writings have not survived, except as references. The earliest extant version of a list of seven wonders was compiled by Antipater of Sidon, who described the structures in a poem around 140 BC."