The New7Wonders Foundation, set up by the Swiss filmmaker Bernard Weber, opened a worldwide vote in 2000 to pick seven wonders for our time, because only one of the seven wonders of the ancient world is still standing. The results were announced in Lisbon on 7 July 2007, after a campaign that claimed around 100 million votes online and by phone.
The Great Pyramid of Giza, the only ancient wonder that survives, was left out of the vote and given honorary status instead. UNESCO kept its distance from the campaign, but all eight are World Heritage sites.
I have been to six of the seven, and to Giza. Only three caught me dead: the rest belong to the years before 2007, when I still took the typical boring photo.
In 2023 I told RAC1 I would like to die at all seven. Read the interview
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