Egypt
- The Very Last On The New 7 Wonders
IOL Egypt has one last dig at the contest: Egypt said on Sunday that the pyramids of Giza remained the only wonder of the world, snubbing a contest in which seven "new" wonders were selected by Internet and telephone voters as having "no value."Seven...
- New 7 Wonders Announced
BBC News The BBC News website has the "New 7 Wonders" listing, in pictures (rather better photographs than those on the New 7 Wonders site, linked to below). If you haven't been bored/horrified to death with the whole thing, or if you just can't...
- Egypt Pays No Heed To List Of New Seven Wonders Of The World
http://tinyurl.com/2dvpba (sis.gov.eg)"Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said on Monday 7/5/2007 that Egypt paid no heed to the New Seven Wonders of the World list, which removed the Giza Pyramids and gave them an honourary status. Hosni said Egypt had...
- More Re Removal Of Giza Pyramids From New 7 Wonders
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6776The pyramids of Giza have been removed from an Internet competition to name the new seven wonders of the world, but the anger of Egypt's antiquities chief remained unmollified on Thursday. Swiss-Canadian...
- More Re Egypt's Response To The New 7 Wonders
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7169"No contest: The Pyramids of Giza are one of the great wonders of the world. That’s the view of both Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni and Supreme Council of Antiquities head Zahi Hawass, who have...
Egypt
More re New 7 Wonders
http://www.timesnow.tv/To_wonderful_to_be_a_wonder/articleshow/1775063.cms
"The new wonders of the world are being voted for in a global contest. But one of the top contenders, whom voters have placed at the top of the list, doesn’t care for the distinction because ancient Egypt's Great Pyramids are undeniably ''wonder'-ful. Down the rambling deserts of age-old Egypt is one of mankinds most majestic creations -- the Great Pyramids of Giza. Built by Egyptians in 2500 BC as tombs for their pharos, the structures are the oldest and only surviving wonder of the ancient world drawn and documented up by Philo of Byzantium. But today, as the world votes the seven wonders of the modern world, Egypt says it wants no part of the latest contest."
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"Maybe it simply feeds modern society’s obsession with lists and rankings, but more than 2000 years after ancient Greeks identified the Seven Wonders of the World, millions of people around the globe are casting internet ballots to update the list.
Whether motivated by nationalism, conservation, curiosity or sheer boredom, more than four million Chinese, Indians, Mexicans, Brazilians, Americans and others have cast 28 million votes, organisers say. They have generated 21 wonder finalists, including the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, the Acropolis in Athens, Jordan’s ancient city of Petra and the pyramids of Giza in Egypt. "
Whether motivated by nationalism, conservation, curiosity or sheer boredom, more than four million Chinese, Indians, Mexicans, Brazilians, Americans and others have cast 28 million votes, organisers say. They have generated 21 wonder finalists, including the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, the Acropolis in Athens, Jordan’s ancient city of Petra and the pyramids of Giza in Egypt. "
- The Very Last On The New 7 Wonders
IOL Egypt has one last dig at the contest: Egypt said on Sunday that the pyramids of Giza remained the only wonder of the world, snubbing a contest in which seven "new" wonders were selected by Internet and telephone voters as having "no value."Seven...
- New 7 Wonders Announced
BBC News The BBC News website has the "New 7 Wonders" listing, in pictures (rather better photographs than those on the New 7 Wonders site, linked to below). If you haven't been bored/horrified to death with the whole thing, or if you just can't...
- Egypt Pays No Heed To List Of New Seven Wonders Of The World
http://tinyurl.com/2dvpba (sis.gov.eg)"Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said on Monday 7/5/2007 that Egypt paid no heed to the New Seven Wonders of the World list, which removed the Giza Pyramids and gave them an honourary status. Hosni said Egypt had...
- More Re Removal Of Giza Pyramids From New 7 Wonders
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6776The pyramids of Giza have been removed from an Internet competition to name the new seven wonders of the world, but the anger of Egypt's antiquities chief remained unmollified on Thursday. Swiss-Canadian...
- More Re Egypt's Response To The New 7 Wonders
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7169"No contest: The Pyramids of Giza are one of the great wonders of the world. That’s the view of both Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni and Supreme Council of Antiquities head Zahi Hawass, who have...