Thank God, the whole campaign of "Vote for Taj" has come to an end after Taj has ben selected as one of the New Wonders of the world. I really never understood the need for this campaign or neither did I understand what good it would do to the citizen of India except for a seasonal craze of Indians.I always loved watching the shows on Roman Empire, the Mysteries of World History on The History Channel. My long lasting dream has always been visiting Rome and Egypt and also the former land of peace and the present land of conflict, Jerusalem. The world has been really wonderful, but always depends on the person who i s observing it. As the saying goes "Beauty lies in the eyes of the onlooker "
Since I always follow a notion ' if you can't change them join them' so even I have joined the seasonal craze of the world...'their sudden love for the wonders in the world'..
The wonders are classified as 'Ancient', 'Medieval', 'Modern' and 'New'( UN does consider New as official choice).
The 'Seven Wonders of the Ancient World' were based on guide-books popular among Hellenic sight-seers and only includes works located around the Mediterranean rim.
The historian Herodotus (484 BC–ca. 425 BC), and the scholar Callimachus of Cyrene (ca 305–240 BC) at the Museum of Alexandria, made early lists of "seven wonders" but their writings have not survived, except as references. The earliest extant version of a list of seven wonders was compiled by Antipater of Sidon, who described the structures in a poem around 140 BC:
I have set eyes on the wall of lofty Babylon on which is a road for chariots, and the statue of Zeus by the Alpheus, and the hanging gardens, and the Colossus of the Sun, and the huge labour of the high pyramids, and the vast tomb of Mausolus; but when I saw the house of Artemis that mounted to the clouds, those other marvels lost their brilliancy, and I said, 'Lo, apart from Olympus, the Sun never looked on aught so grand.'
– Antipater, Greek Anthology IX.58
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World are
The Greek category was not "Wonders" but "theamata", which translates closer to "must-sees".
The list that we know today was compiled in the Middle Ages—by which time many of the sites were no longer in existence. Since the list came mostly from ancient Greek writings, only sites that would have been known and visited by the ancient Greeks were included. Even as early as 1600 BC, tourist graffiti was scrawled on monuments in the Egyptian Valley of the Kings.
Antipater's original list replaced the Lighthouse of Alexandria with the Ishtar Gate. It was not until the 6th century AD that the list above was used. Of these wonders, the only one that has survived to the present day is the Great Pyramid of Giza. The existence of the Hanging Gardens has not been definitively proven. Records show that the other five wonders were destroyed by natural disasters. The Temple of Artemis and the Statue of Zeus were destroyed by fire, while the Lighthouse of Alexandria, Colossus, and Mausoleum of Maussollos were destroyed by earthquakes. There are sculptures from the Mausoleum of Maussollos and the Temple of Artemis in the British Museum in London.
Great Pyramid of Giza(Honorary Candidate)
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