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Chichen Itza

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A large Maya city in the northern Yucatán whose best-known structure, El Castillo or the Temple of Kukulcan, is a step pyramid about 24 m high with a further 6 m of temple on top and a square base of some 55.3 m. Its four stairways carry 91 steps each, which with the top platform give 365. At the equinoxes the stepped edge of the northern balustrade casts a serpentine shadow down the stair. The site was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1988 and elected a New7Wonder in 2007.

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  2. A large Maya city in the northern Yucatán whose best-known structure, El Castillo or the Temple of Kukulcan, is a step pyramid about 24 m high with a further 6 m of temple on top and a square base of some 55.3 m. Its four stairways carry 91 steps each, which with the top platform give 365. At the equinoxes the stepped edge of the northern balustrade casts a serpentine shadow down the stair. The site was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1988 and elected a New7Wonder in 2007.
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  4. Chichen Itza
  5. New7Wonders Foundation
  6. Connections
  7. New7Wonders Foundation
  8. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
  9. Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
  10. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
  11. Petra
  12. Machu Picchu
  13. Taj Mahal
  14. Great Wall of China
  15. Chichen Itza
  16. Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro
  17. Egypt forces the Great Pyramid out of the New7Wonders ballot
  18. UNESCO publicly disowns the New7Wonders campaign
  19. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
  20. Evidence
  21. Inscription years and property identities for the modern-list sites and Olympia.
  22. 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.
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