New Seven Wonders of the World

[alferret]

Personal favorites of mine are...
The Colosseum in Rome, Jordan's Petra - the famed Rose City.



BBC LINK

[Russ]

Petra is amazing, a whole city carved out of a mountain. Pretty impressed with number 2 as well

[TheDaddy]

Oh dear, no British ones, I'd like to nominate the Millennium Dome if poss

Wasn't stonehenge in the running at some point for inclusion might be wrong.

[danielf]

I'm a little surprised by #2 (which really doesn't look that impressive to me). I'm also surprised that the pyramids and Angkor didn't make the list. Angkor Wat itself is pretty impressive, but with all the other temples that make up the complex it is without a doubt the most impressive thing (structure wise) I've seen in my life. We spent 5 day there. Four days visiting the main temples, one day to revisit the really special ones, and one day visiting the 'outlying temples'. I'd go back at the drop of a hat.

Some nice photos here

[punky]

I'm glad Chichen Itza made the list... Its an amazing place and well worth visiting. Sad that Stonehenge didn't make it.

[deathtrap3000]

I dont know why they dont just scrap the whole 'seven' thing and go for a higher number like 8 or 9.

Frankly mankind hasn't anything on mother nature.As far as I'm concerned the seven wonders of the world are all natural..There's the Grand Canyon to name one...She's also a better sculptor and artist as well.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Incognitas

Frankly mankind hasn't anything on mother nature.As far as I'm concerned the seven wonders of the world are all natural..There's the Grand Canyon to name one...She's also a better sculptor and artist as well.

Hmm Grand Canyon, we need British ones, how about the Watford Gap

[fizgog]

I think Petra is probably the best of the lot in that list.


Anyone remember what the original 7 wonders were?

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by fizgog

I think Petra is probably the best of the lot in that list.


Anyone remember what the original 7 wonders were?

Hanging gardens
Temple of Artimis aka Diana
Pyramid at Giza
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse at Alexandria
Some dudes mausoleum
and something else

[Shadow Demon UK]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Hanging gardens
Temple of Artimis aka Diana
Pyramid at Giza
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse at Alexandria
Some dudes mausoleum
and something else

The last two are the Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus and the Statue of Zeus at Olympia.

[danielf]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Hanging gardens
Temple of Artimis aka Diana
Pyramid at Giza
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse at Alexandria
Some dudes mausoleum
and something else

The Mausoleum is of king Mausollos apparently. I wonder where the word mausoleum comes from

The last one is the statue of Zeus at Apollo.

http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/list.html

Edit: beaten to it.

[TheDaddy]

Nice work gents, does anyone know the one (apart from the pyramid) that escaped complete destruction?

[danielf]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Nice work gents, does anyone know the one (apart from the pyramid) that escaped complete destruction?

The palace at babylon?

http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/gardens.html

More recent archaeological excavations at the ancient city of Babylon in Iraq uncovered the foundation of the palace. Other findings include the Vaulted Building with thick walls and an irrigation well near the southern palace. A group of archaeologists surveyed the area of the southern palace and reconstructed the Vaulted Building as the Hanging Gardens. However, the Greek historian Strabo had stated that the gardens were situated by the River Euphrates. So others argue that the site is too far from the Euphrates to support the theory since the Vaulted Building is several hundreds of meters away. They reconstructed the site of the palace and located the Gardens in the area stretching from the River to the Palace. On the river banks, recently discovered massive walls 25 m thick may have been stepped to form terraces... the ones described in Greek references.