The New 7 Wonders of the World 

The New 7 Wonders of the World was a campaign started in 2000 to choose Wonders of the
World from a selection of 200 existing monuments. The popularity poll via free Web-based voting
and small amounts of telephone voting was led by Canadian-Swiss Bernard Weber and organized
by the New 7 Wonders Foundation (N7W) based in Zurich, Switzerland, with winners announced on
7 July 2007 in Lisbon, at Estádio da Luz. The poll was considered unscientific partly because it was
possible for people to cast multiple votes. According to John Zogby, founder and current
President/CEO of the Utica, New York-based polling organization Zogby International, New 7
Wonders Foundation drove "the largest poll on record".
The program drew a wide range of official reactions. Some countries touted their finalist and tried to
get more votes cast for it, while others downplayed or criticized the contest. After supporting the New
7 Wonders Foundation at the beginning of the campaign by providing advice on nominee selection,
the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), by its bylaws
having to record all and give equal status to world heritage sites, distanced itself from the
undertaking in 2001 and again in 2007.
The seven winners were chosen from 21 candidates, which had been whittled down from 77 choices
by a panel in 2006.
The New 7 Wonders Foundation, established in 2001, relied on private donations and the sale of
broadcast rights and received no public funding. After the final announcement, New 7 Wonders said
it did not earn anything from the exercise and barely recovered its investment. Although N7W
describes itself as a not-for-profit organization, the company behind it—the New Open World
Corporation (NOWC)—is a commercial business. All licensing and sponsorship money is paid to
NOWC.
The foundation ran two subsequent programs: New 7 Wonders of Nature, the subject of voting until
2011, and New7Wonders Cities, which ended in 2014.
The campaigns and the organization are sometimes spelled as multiple words and sometimes as a
single word.
1. Great Pyramid of Giza
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid and the tomb of Fourth
Dynasty pharaoh Khufu. Built in the 26th century BC during a period of around 27 years, it is the
oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact. As part
of the Giza pyramid complex, it borders present-day Giza in Greater Cairo, Egypt.
2. Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China (traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; simplified Chinese: 万里长城; pinyin: Wànlǐ
Chángchéng) is a series of fortifications that were built across the historical northern borders
of ancient Chinese states and Imperial China as protection against various nomadic groups from
the Eurasian Steppe. Several walls were built from as early as the 7th century BC, with selective
stretches later joined together by Qin Shi Huang (220–206 BC), the first emperor of China. Little of
the Qin wall remains. Later on, many successive dynasties built and maintained multiple stretches of
border walls. The best-known sections of the wall were built by the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).
3. Petra
ْ romanized: Al-Batrāʾ; Ancient Greek: Πέτρα, "Rock", Nabataean: 𐢈𐢓𐢚𐢛),
Petra (Arabic: ‫ٱل َب ْترَ ا‬, 
originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu or Raqēmō is a historic and archaeological city in
southern Jordan. It is adjacent to the mountain of Jabal Al-Madbah, in a basin surrounded by
mountains forming the eastern flank of the Arabah valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of
Aqaba. The area around Petra has been inhabited from as early as 7000 BC, and
the Nabataeans might have settled in what would become the capital city of their kingdom as early
as the 4th century BC. Archaeological work has only discovered evidence of Nabataean presence
dating back to the second century BC, by which time Petra had become their capital. The
Nabataeans were nomadic Arabs who invested in Petra's proximity to the incense trade routes by
establishing it as a major regional trading hub.
4. The Colosseum 
The Colosseum (/ˌkɒləˈsiːəm/ KOL-ə-SEE-əm; Italian: Colosseo [kolosˈsɛːo]) is an
oval amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the
largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the largest standing amphitheatre in the world
today, despite its age. Construction began under the emperor Vespasian (r. 69–79 AD) in 72 and
was completed in 80 AD under his successor and heir, Titus (r. 79–81). Further modifications were
made during the reign of Domitian (r. 81–96).The three emperors that were patrons of the work are
known as the Flavian dynasty, and the amphitheatre was named the Flavian
Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium; Italian: Anfiteatro Flavio [aɱfiteˈaːtro ˈflaːvjo]) by
later classicists and archaeologists for its association with their family name (Flavius).
5. Chichen Itza  
Chichen Itza  was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Terminal Classic
period. The archeological site is located in Tinúm Municipality, Yucatán State, Mexico.
Chichen Itza was a major focal point in the Northern Maya Lowlands from the Late Classic (c. AD
600–900) through the Terminal Classic (c. AD 800–900) and into the early portion of
the Postclassic period (c. AD 900–1200). The site exhibits a multitude of architectural styles,
reminiscent of styles seen in central Mexico and of the Puuc and Chenes styles of the Northern
Maya lowlands. The presence of central Mexican styles was once thought to have been
representative of direct migration or even conquest from central Mexico, but most contemporary
interpretations view the presence of these non-Maya styles more as the result of cultural diffusion.
6. Machu Picchu 
Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a
2,430-meter (7,970 ft) mountain ridge. It is located in the Machupicchu District within Urubamba
Province above the Sacred Valley, which is 80 kilometers (50 mi) northwest of Cusco.
The Urubamba River flows past it, cutting through the Cordillera and creating a canyon with a
tropical mountain climate.
For most speakers of English or Spanish, the first 'c' in Picchu is silent. In English, the name is
pronounced /ˌmɑːtʃuː ˈpiːtʃuː/ or /ˌmætʃuː ˈpiːktʃuː/, in Spanish as [ˈmatʃu ˈpitʃu] or [ˈmatʃu ˈpiktʃu], and
in Quechua (Machu Pikchu) as [ˈmatʃʊ ˈpɪktʃʊ].
The Incas, in contrast with the Mayans, had no written language, and no European visited the site
until the 19th century, so far as is known. There are, therefore, no written records of the site while it
was in use. The names of the buildings, their supposed uses, and their inhabitants are all the
product of modern archeologists, on the basis of physical evidence, including tombs at the site.
7. The Taj Mahal 
The Taj Mahal (Persian: ‫تاج محل‬ ; /ˌtɑːdʒ məˈhɑːl, ˌtɑːʒ-/; lit. 'Crown of the Palace', [taːdʒ
ˈmɛːɦ(ə)l]), is an Islamic ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in the
Indian city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (r. 1628–1658)
to house the tomb of his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal; it also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan
himself. The tomb is the centrepiece of a 17-hectare (42-acre) complex, which includes
a mosque and a guest house, and is set in formal gardens bounded on three sides by
a crenellated wall.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_7_Wonders_of_the_World
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colosseum
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichen_Itza
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_the_Redeemer_(statue)

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