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Wonder |
Location |
Image |
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Chichen Itza |
Yucatán, Mexico |
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Christ the
Redeemer |
Rio de Janeiro Brazil |
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Colosseums |
Rome, Italy |
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Great Wall of
China |
People's Republic of China |
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Machu Picchu Machu Pikchu |
Cuzco Region, Peru |
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Petra |
Ma'an Governorat, Jordan |
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Taj Mahal |
Agra, India |
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The "New Seven Wonders of the World" have been announced by the nonprofit organization New 7 Wonders.org. All but one of the old Seven Wonders has disappeared--some of which may have been fictional anyway--and Swiss entrepreneurs Bernard Weber and Bernard Piccard decided it was time to renew the list. Six of the seven are archaeological sites, and those six and the leftover from the last seven--the Pyramids at Giza--are there in this photo essay. In 2001 an initiative was started by the Swiss corporation New 7 Wonders Foundation to choose the New Seven Wonders of the World from a selection of 200 existing monuments for profit.Twenty-one finalists were announced January 1, 2006. Egypt was not happy with the fact that the only original wonder would have to compete with the likes of the Statue of Liberty, the Sydney Opera House, and other landmarks; and called the project absurd. To solve this, Giza was named an honorary Candida. The results were announced on July 7, 2007.
