Stonehenge makes list in new seven wonders vote

Tue Oct 17, 8:34 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Only one of the ancient wonders of the world still survives -- now history lovers are being invited to choose a new list of seven.

Among 21 locations shortlisted for the worldwide vote is Stonehenge, the only British landmark selected.

The 5,000-year-old stones on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, will be up against sites including the Acropolis in Athens; the Statue of Liberty in New York; and the last remaining original wonder, the Pyramids of Giza in Cairo.

An original list of nearly 200 sites nominated by the public was narrowed to 21 by the organizers and experts, including the former director general of Unesco Professor Federico Mayor.

The vote is organized by a non-profit Swiss foundation called New7Wonders which specializes in the preservation, restoration and promotion of monuments, and the results will be announced on July 7, 2007, in Lisbon.

About 20 million votes have already been lodged, including many from India, for the Taj Mahal; China, for the Great Wall and from Peru for Machu Picchu, the fortress city of the Incas.

The other original seven wonders of the ancient world were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon; the Statue of Zeus at Olympia; the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus; the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus; the Colossus of Rhodes and the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

Tia Viering, spokeswoman for New7Wonders, said: "Apart from the Pyramids, the seven ancient wonders of the world no longer exist."

The only criteria for the new list is that the landmarks were built or discovered before 2000.

"People of England, it is now your turn to be heard," added Viering. "Support Stonehenge to become one of the New Seven Wonders of the World."

Votes can be made online, at http://www.new7wonders.com/index.php

roflmao at the Statue of Liberty being on the list!

The statue of Liberty :blink:

I hope the pyramids are going to stay on the list...otherwise it's just stupid.

Anyway the new seven wonder will no way be as good as the old bunch :D

Statue of Liberty? :doh:

Only in America...

Those are ridiculous....I voted for the Colloseum, but most are fairly newish...

Yep, there will only be one '7 wonders of the world' list for me :D

Also, the Eiffel Tower and the Sydney Opera House? They're great, but they're not exactly 'wonders' :wacko:

I'd vote for the statues on Easter Island

Yep to be honest good as these places are they are not awe inspiring in the way the pyramids are.

They're just not old enough for a start!

The Sydney Opera House :yikes: Ye right how is that a 'wonder'? And the Statue of Liberty isn't even that big!

My list would be:

The Acropolis
The Great Wall of China
The Pyramids
The Taj Mahal
Machu Picchu
The Colosseum
Statues of Easter Island

:)

Certainly not the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower or the Sydney Opera House :wacko: :lol:

I totally agree with making a new list, what's the point in having 7 wonders of the world, when 6 of them don't even exist!

Anyway, I voted in that poll actually, and picked the Statue of Liberty as one of my choices :D Unlike most of the other monuments, that one actually has a meaning and a message behind it and is probably the most famous monument in the world, so I think it qualifies :D

How many of these have you guys been to?

I've been to 3 of them

That's a good list LDF but to be fair they are just replacements for the ones that have gone. How fickle are we that we have to replace the seven wonders just because they're gone :lol:

It seems a little stupid to me it's like saying ok well now Winston Churchill is dead we need a new Greatest ever Briton. Just because they're not there anymore I don't see why we need a new list :shrug:

No way, the 7 wonders of the ancient worl were incredible, these just don't have the same aura about them.....I think it's fine to make a new list but really it doesnt mean as much as the original one....

LDF, that is the exact list I picked! Except the Statue of Liberty in place of the pyraminds :unsure: :D

I've been to Rome and lots of Italy so I've seen most of the 'real' wonders of the world or where they were anyway :D

criminal roflmao

I've been to 8

But the old one is completely redundant, 6 don't exist, and yes they were all great, and they will always be part of the 7 'ancient' wonders of the world list, but to most people they don't mean anything, I didn't even know half of them when I looked that list up :lol:

Great minds ;)

I still refuse to put the Statue of Liberty in though :lol:

(By the way, I do think that the Statue of Liberty is a great monument - I just don't think it really can be classed as a 'wonder')

I've been to 3 (Machu Picchu, the Colosseum and the Acropolis) of my 7 picks, plus a few of the others :)

I'm sure most people know what they are, it's just one of those things that you know from a really young age :shrug: I don't think they're redundent either, people still go to visit the sites where they were....

We're not talking about people, we're talking about monuments and landmarks, and they weren't that 'wonderful' if 6 of them went by the wayside :lol:

Anyway, what sort impact did they have? Unlike say a Winston Churchill? Not much :shrug:

I think it's safe to say they had a huge impact dav, many people in the ancient world would spend years travelling to see them all.

Yes, at least we agree in the most part roflmao

Yes, they are all great, I just like it for all it represents and it's in NY roflmao

I'm sure they did SG, but what about this generation? Surely we should have our own list for our own times, and no-one is getting rid of the other list either, they're the 'ancient' wonders, these are the new :)

I guess, I just think it's all a bit pointless really... :shrug:

I think creating a new list is pointless. I like the old wonders of the world. They don't need 'updating' they are a piece of history

It's not being updated or replaced, it's just a poll to see what are the greatest landmarks of our time, what's the harm :shrug:

True. It is harmless.

Oh look what Dav's changed his avatar too :rolleyes: roflmao

The hanging gardens of Babylon were the cradle of civilisation Dav..most of the nations on the earth exist BECAUSE of the impact Babylon had on the ancient world. They were also very beautiful and a feat of engineering millenia ahead of its time. Not many things can say that!

I've been to loads of great and amazing places such as New York and Italy but isn't half of what makes them wonderous is how old they are/were and the fact that we can't see them anymore :shrug:

If we know 'for sure' how something was made and what it is, doesn't that take the wonder away?...thats why Easter Island and places like that are good for the new list but the Sydney Opera House aint :rolleyes:

By the way LDF im so jealous you've been to the Macchu Pichu you bastard :lol:

:lol:

Well, I've got family in Peru, so we're in the country every now and then.

We're actually going for a month or so next year, so we'll aim to go to Machu Picchu again and possibly do the trek! :)

So you don't think that the great wall of China is eligible for such a list? :shrug: The fact is, there are many awesome landmarks around the globe that deserve to be called 'wonders', and this list allows that to happen, I'm sorry, but 6 of those 7 landmarks are not 'wonders of the world', because they don't exist here on earth, they are the 7 ancient wonders of the world, and the pyramids will most certainly make this new list, so it will continue to be a wonder of the world :)

Lucky! I wish I had family in intertesting places like that! Must be fun to go for a month. One of my aims at some point is just go and live somewhere different like in New York for a year; it must be such as experience! Hopefully if it coincides with my academical or professional life at some point.

Im aiming to do the trek before I leave uni so hopefully I'll find some people who want to do it and I can! :lol:

No, what makes a monument a 'wonder' is totally subjective, it can, like you say, be how old it is, it can be that it is an example of incredible engineering, or it can be, like the Statue of Liberty, something that encompasses certain virtues like peace, unity and opportunity...

There is no single way to define a wonder, it can be a variety of things :)

Well yes there are other great wonders of the ancient world still in existence like the pyramdis and the Great Wall; and I would be interested to know how the original list was compiled and when. Even though it is of course harmless either way whatever happens and it isn't going to hurt anyone having two lists or not.

But the fact is they are THE Seven Wonders of the World and it seems pointless to me to come up with a new seven. With Ancient wonders like this it seems a foolish prerequisite that they need to be in current existence to be classified as wonders. With things like this, the fact they existed at all is amazing, and the like of them will never be replicated as long the earth continues so I would've though having a permanent list of them would've been a good way of preserving them :shrug:

I've got family in Milton Keynes, does that count?

:wacko:

roflmao