Egypt forces the Great Pyramid out of the New7Wonders ballot

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1. Story
2. Egyptian officials reacted angrily to the inclusion of the Giza pyramids among the twenty-one finalists announced on 1 January 2006. The culture minister Farouk Hosni called the contest absurd and the antiquities chief Zahi Hawass called it a silly idea that risked commercialising irreplaceable heritage. Egypt demanded the pyramids' removal, and the foundation resolved the dispute by inventing the status of Honorary New7Wonders Candidate, after which no votes could be cast for them.
3. Knowledge
4. Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
5. New7Wonders Foundation
6. Egypt forces the Great Pyramid out of the New7Wonders ballot
7. Connections
8. Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
9. New7Wonders Foundation
10. Burj Khalifa
11. Corbelling (the false arch and false dome)
12. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
13. New7Wonders Foundation
14. Antipater of Sidon writes the earliest surviving list of seven wonders
15. Egypt forces the Great Pyramid out of the New7Wonders ballot
16. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
17. The Great Pyramid is built as mass, not span
18. Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
19. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
20. Petra
21. Machu Picchu
22. Taj Mahal
23. Great Wall of China
24. Chichen Itza
25. Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro
26. Egypt forces the Great Pyramid out of the New7Wonders ballot
27. UNESCO publicly disowns the New7Wonders campaign
28. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
29. Evidence
30. The campaign's own account of the seven elected sites, the reported vote volume, and the special status given to the Great Pyramid after Egypt's objection.