...The pyramids at Giza, the hanging gardens of Babylon, the Colossus, the statue of Zeus at Olympia, the lighthouse of Alexandria, the mausoleum, the Temple of Artemis.

No, really.

Western Europe first gained access to the tradition of lists of world wonders in the very early Renaissance. The known-at-the-time surviving version of the Greek Anthology, containing the poem attributed to Antipater of Sidon with six wonders, was first published in the west in 1494. There were references in other classical texts prized by Renaissance scholars, too. Forty years later, the idea of the Seven Wonders had developed and cystallized in the Renaissance imagination to the point of Maarten van Heemskerck's woodcut series. (Note that although the pyramids were/are very much still around, he clearly hasn't seen them firsthand.)