New Seven Wonders of the World selection.

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THE COMMONLY KNOWN Seven Ancient Wonders of the World were all man-made monuments, selected by Philon of Byzantium. All of them had been built between 2500 and 200 BC. An ambitions campaign to select the world's new wonders is underway. This time, rather than one person selecting them, millions of people all over the globe will decide the New Seven Wonders of the World

"The renowned ancient wonders belong to antiquity and with the exception of the pyramids of Egypt, none remain in existence. There has never been any true public consensus of opinion on the last; 2,000 years of human achievement," says Bernard Weber, founder of the New7Wonders (N7W) Foundation. The N7W Foundation has the express aim of documenting, maintaining, restoring, and reconstructing world heritage sites trader the motto "Our Heritage is our Future." They are devoted to guarding against threats to Earth's...