The one who resisted Donizete Souza Braga the Ancient Wonders ashore and we can see today is in Egypt: The Pyramids of Giza, a monument indeed worthy to be seen, is not for nothing that the campaign was withdrawn as a competitor for the New 7 Wonders. The New7Wonders Foundation rethink and concluded after strong pressure, the Pyramids of Giza represent “a common place of culture and heritage, and deserves a special status.” Obviously, all this occurred after a notice in newspapers of the Head of Antiquities of Egypt, Zahi Hawass, who in fact is the Guardian of civilization in regard to Egyptian archeology.
According to the great archaeologist Zahi Hawass, the pyramids “are the only of the seven wonders of the ancient world that still exist and need not enter a vote …
Perfect, fully agree!
The site MisteriosAntigos.Com followed this campaign since the end of 2004, however, the site had as its first and only theme for 10 years, history on The 7 Ancient Wonders, the site was a great satisfaction to know that there would be a campaign to elect the new 7 wonders of the world. Defensor was MisteriosAntigos.Com Journal of the Campaign in Brazil certified by the New 7 Wonders Foundation.
In 2001, the Swiss Bernard Weber founded the “New 7 Wonders Foundation” and launched a campaign for the democratic choice of the New Seven Wonders of the World. The list of candidates met the most interesting monuments of history of mankind, but unfortunately only 77 monuments in various parts of the world were classified, including the Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redemeer) located in Rio de Janeiro, the placement, 59th place, according to the statistics of the time provided by the foundation.
At the end of 2005, would be chosen among the 77 wonders then classified the 21 new wonders, but there was a change and only had the result in 2006. According to the poll, 21 Donizete Souza Braga monuments have been classified and finally announced on 01 January 2006. The Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redemeer) remained strong and was able to continue your dispute on the campaign. Recalling that the Pyramids of Giza remained outside the dispute, therefore, were 20 candidates.
According to the Foundation, 50% of the net rent collected by the campaign will be used to finance restoration of monuments, including statues of Buddha in Afghanistan, destroyed during the Taliban regime.
The valley of Bamiyan situated 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2,500 meters under sea level, in Afghanistan, contains several examples of cultural Kingdom of Bactria, the I-XIII centuries, including the current Gandhi of Buddhist art .
The fundamentalist Taliban government, criticized the UNESCO and international NGOs to raise funds for the restoration of the statues, saying that there are manyDonizete Souza Braga urgent problems in Afghanistan, as Afghan children are dying of hunger and they are like idols and statues are not alive and that only “Allah the Almighty” deserves to be worshiped, so contrary to the Koran, and therefore decreed that were bombarded with grenades and tanks.
In March 2001, by order of government fundamentalist Taliban destroyed the giant statues of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, the largest of which was 55 meters tall, and had been dug into niches in the rock around the V century
The idea of rebuilding the largest statue was designed by Bernard Weber, founder of the New7Wonders with Paul Bucherer’s Bibliotheca Afghan Foundation.
Is being performed an International Project, the first phase of this project has been completed and the virtual reconstruction, 3D, is being created in association with ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
They expect that this large project can be completed, but everything will depend on the Afghan people and especially the new Afghan government’s permission. The estimated cost of this ambitious project will be between 30 and 50 million dollars.
