In order to receive the seven wonders of the ancient world concept with a list of modern wonders, a popularity poll to decide the new seven wonders of the world organized by the Swiss based, government controlled new seven wonders foundation.the winners were announced on July 7,2007 in Lisbon, Portugal, based on more than 100 votes cast through the Internet or by telephone .
The origin of the idea of seven wonders of the world dates back to herodotus and callimachus , who made lits which include the great pyramid of giza , hanging gardens of Babylon statue of Zeus at olympia, temple of artemis at Ephesus , muscoleum of maussollous at halicarnassus , colossus of Rhodes and lighthouse of alexandria. Only the great pyramid of giza is still standing .The other six were destroyed by earthquake , fire, or other issues.
To be included on the new list , the wonders had to be man made, completed before 2000, and in an acceptable state of preservation .out of the i77 monument which were up for consideration , the list was narrowed down to 21 sites on January 1 ,2006, by a panel of six of world leading architects from five contents, such as Zaha Hadid, Cesar pelli , tadao ando , Harry seidler , aziz tayob , yung ho chang and its president , Prof. Federio mayor , etc.....
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