New Seven Wonders of the World is being published in book form

Prague - The new seven wonders of the world, which have been added to those known for over two thousand years, have their book form. The title New Most Beautiful Wonders of the World includes texts and photographs of the new world landmarks, as well as other candidates who competed in the survey, and adds seven wonders of the Czech Republic, as chosen by the readers of one of the Czech newspapers. The book was published by XYZ Publishing, and the editor is Lucie Bártová.
    The results of the survey for the seven new wonders, in which around 100 million people from around the world voted via the internet and mobile phones, were announced this year on July 7 in Lisbon.
    The survey was organized by the New7Wonders Foundation, which was founded six years ago by Swiss-Canadian filmmaker and traveler Bernard Weber. He promised that half of the proceeds would be used to restore world cultural heritage, including the Buddha statues in Afghanistan that were destroyed during the rule of the fundamentalist Taliban movement.
    Among the new seven wonders of the world are the Great Wall of China, the Jordanian rock city of Petra, the Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil, the Inca fortress of Machu Picchu in Peru, the Mayan city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico's Yucatán, the Colosseum in Rome, and the Indian mausoleum Taj Mahal.
    Twenty-one world monuments made it to the final nomination. Strong candidates for a place in the new list also included the Cambodian temple of Angkor Wat and the Japanese temple of Kiyomizu. The list also featured modern structures such as the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Statue of Liberty in New York, and the Sydney Opera House in Australia.
    Two years ago, the news server idnes.cz attempted to select the seven wonders of the Czech Republic. The survey received significant feedback, with tens of thousands of votes cast. Ultimately, the pumped-storage power plant Dlouhé Stráně was designated as a wonder of the Czech Republic. Also included were the transmitter with a hotel on Ještěd, Prague Castle, Karlštejn, Hluboká Castle, Český Krumlov, and Charles Bridge.
    The original list of seven wonders was likely compiled by the Hellenistic philosopher Philo of Byzantium in the 2nd century BC. Of the remarkable landmarks he identified, only the oldest of them - the Egyptian pyramids at Giza - has survived to this day.
    The existence of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon is never completely proven, the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus and the statue of Phidias's Zeus at Olympia were destroyed by fire, and the remaining three structures - the lighthouse on the island of Pharos near Alexandria, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the mausoleum at Halicarnassus in Asia Minor - succumbed to earthquakes.
    From the beginning, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee has disagreed with Weber's project, stating that its own list of unique world monuments has little in common with the public survey. Egypt also agreed with UNESCO's stance. It was unhappy that the pyramids at Giza, being the only monuments from the original list, had to compete once again for a place among the chosen ones and were not automatically included among the wonders of the world.