Here is a list of the current (Up to date in 2012) seven man-made wonders of the world. These seven wonders were announced as the results to a poll held by the Canadian/Swiss Bernard Weber in Zurich, Switzerland. Bernard is a member of the New7Wonders Foundation which is regulated by the Swiss Federal Foundation Authority. Below are the seven wonders as they currently stand.
I have organised them below in alphabetical order, they are not and do not get, ranked. All wonders are of equal merit.
Chichen ItzaQuick Facts:
Located in Yukatan, Mexico.
Remains of the Mayan civilization who lived around 600 – 900 AD.
The site is made of hundreds of paved roads and dozens of stone buildings.
Several of the buildings have been restored.
The stone buildings have a large variety of archaeological styles, indicating that the city may have had the most diverse Mayan population in the world.
The site covers an area of at least 5sqkm.
Christ The RedeemerQuick Facts:
Located in Tijuca Forest National Park in Rio de Jeniero.
It stands atop Corcovado mountain.
The tallest part stands at 130 feet tall.
It weighs 635 tonnes.
The statue is made of reinforced concrete and soapstone.
Construction too place from 1922 to 1931.
Restoration has had to be carried out several times due to weather and occasionally vandalism. In 2008 the fingers, head and eyebrows were damaged after being struck by lightening during a ferocious electrical storm.
ColosseumQuick Facts:
Located in the center of Rome, Italy.
It is an elliptical amphitheater and is the largest ever built in/by the Roman empire.
Construction started in 72 AD and was completed in 80 AD.
When opened it could seat 50,000 people.
It hosted gladiatorial contests, public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles and drama’s based on classical mythology.
The majority of damage that has happened to the Colosseum is from earthquakes, however some is due to stone robbers.
The Great Wall of ChinaQuick Facts:
Located, as you may have thought, in China.
Has been around for nearly 2500 years.
The wall is around 3,460km long, with 2,860km of branches and spurs.
It is the longest man made structure in the world.
The wall was built by several Chinese dynasties to protect China’s northern boundary.
The wall ranges from 15 – 30m wide.
The highest point of the wall is in Beijing, at Heita mountain reaching 5,033 feet.
Machu PicchuQuick Facts:
Located in the mountain range of the Urubamba valley, in Peru, 70km northwest of Cuzco the former capital of the Inca civilization.
It rest over 8,000 feet above see level.
Believed to have been made in the 15th century. It was then rediscovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911.
When Bingham rediscovered it the jungle had literally swallowed it up, hence the nickname, The Lost City.
Some of the building blocks weigh up to 50 tonnes.
Despite the weight, the blocks are precisely slotted together with such precision that the mortarless joints will not even permit the insertion of a thin knife blade.
PetraQuick Facts:
Located on the slopes of mount Hor, in the Arabah section of Jordan.
Petra means ”rock” in Greek and Arabic.
It was discovered by a Swiss explorer, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1812.
It’s said to have been around from before 106 AD.
Being made mostly of red sandstone, and with it’s beauty and age, Petra earned the title ”A rose red city half as old as time”.
Petra was once a thriving trading center and capital of the Nabataean empire.
Several scenes from Indiana Jones and the last Crusade were filmed here.
Taj MahalQuick Facts:
Located in Agra, India.
It was built as a mausoleum where the Mughal Emperor known as Shah Jahan was to bury his wife Mumtaz Mahal.
Construction began in 1632 and it was completed in 1653.
The architectural style is a combination of Persian, Islamic and Indian.
20,000 workers helped in the build.
28 varieties of semi-precious and precious stones were used to adorn the Taj for an exquisite finish.
During the Indian rebellion of 1857, many of these stones were ripped of its wall by the British.
The Honorary Candidate
The Great Pyramid are considered a natural wonder, so when the Egyptian government heard that it would have to compete with such modern man-made objects such as the Sydney Opera House (even though it didn’t make the cut), a compromise was met and it was named as the honorary candidate after the seven (relatively) modern wonders of the world.
The Great Pyramid of GizaQuick Facts:
The particular pyramid is the the Great Pyramid of Giza, the largest of the three in the Giza Necropolis.
It is located in what is now El Giza, Egypt.
The pyramid is estimated to have some 2,300,000 stone blocks.
The blocks range in weight with most generally 2 – 30 tonnes, however a few weigh upwards of 70 tonnes.
The base of the pyramid cover 592,000 square feet.
The average stone on the lowest level is 5 feet high, long and deep.
The four sides are indented to a very precise degree and was the only pyramid built this way, making it the only 8 sided pyramid. This effect is only visible from the air.
The Other 14 Finalists
On the website of the link below, more information on when the next announcement of the seven man-made wonders of the world can be found. The link itself will take you to the other 14 finalists of the last poll. So you can see if any of your guesses got down to the last 21!
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