Hello everyone, There's a reason Antipater named the Seven Wonders of the World. The seven vital holes in the human body, the seven colors of the rainbow, the seven tones that make music, seven are the main number in everything created by nature, so the Greeks considered the number seven as a magic word, and that is why Antipater stopped with seven to let miracles be seven. It is noteworthy that there are only seven wonders of the world since then.
Until the sixteenth century the wonders listed by Antipater were the usual wonders of the world. After the sixteenth century some writers began to suggest other places as wonders of the world, as all but the pyramids of Egypt were destroyed. In this case, Cobhan Brewer, an English writer, published Brewers Dictionary of Phrase in 1870, which includes definitions of foreign language words, proverbs, anecdotes, and some historical statistics.
Brewer's dictionary includes some buildings built in the Middle Ages and some buildings built in the modern era (Stone Henge (England), Chichen Itza Pyramid (Mexico), Colosseum (Italy, Rome), Great Wall of China (China), Leaning Tower of Pisa, Taj Mahal (India), The Empire State Building (America) and Eiffel Tower (France) were newly nominated as World Wonders, while India's Taj Mahal was the first to be nominated for the World Wonders list. An unofficial list of wonders of the world followed for a few centuries.
In this case, in 1999, Bernard Weber, a film director from Canada, worked on preparing the official list of the new seven wonders of the world. For this he established a foundation called New 7 Wonders. In 2001, a website was launched for the purpose of creating a new catalogue. Applications for monuments competing for the New World Wonders from around the world were accepted until November 24, 2005. The New 7 Wonders Foundation announced on January 1, 2005 that 177 monuments from around the world were considered and only 21 sites were selected as worthy of the competition by the world's leading architects. , reported in 2006.
Among these 21-sites, one of the ancient wonders of the world, the Pyramid of Egypt, was removed from the list because the Egyptians objected to the inclusion of the pyramid in the list. Only the remaining 20-sites were left for public voting. The contest ended in June 2007 and the new Seven Wonders of the World won on July 7, 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal: Chichen Itza (Mexico), Christ the Redeemer (Brazil), Colosseum (Rome), Great Wall of China (China). , Machu Picchu (Peru), Petra (Jordan), Taj Mahal (India) were announced.