Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)

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1. Story
2. The tomb built for the Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu on the Giza plateau, and the only one of the seven ancient wonders still standing. It rose originally to about 146.6 m and now stands at roughly 138.5 m, the loss being the stripped outer casing and the eroded apex. It is by far the oldest entry on the ancient list, older than the other six by roughly two thousand years. In 2007 it was removed from the New7Wonders ballot at Egypt's insistence and given the invented status of Honorary Candidate.
3. Knowledge
4. Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
5. New7Wonders Foundation
6. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
7. Corbelling (the false arch and false dome)
8. Burj Khalifa
9. Connections
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. Load path
20. The safety elevator
21. Reinforced concrete
22. Fazlur Rahman Khan
23. Burj Khalifa opens at 828 m
24. Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
25. The voussoir arch
26. The voussoir arch
27. Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae
28. The Great Pyramid is built as mass, not span
29. The corbelled tholos at Mycenae sets a record that stands for fourteen centuries
30. Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
31. Hanging Gardens (of Babylon, or of Nineveh)
32. Lighthouse of Alexandria (the Pharos)
33. Colossus of Rhodes
34. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision)
35. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
36. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
37. Philo of Byzantium (the Paradoxographer)
38. Antipater of Sidon
39. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
40. Antipater of Sidon writes the earliest surviving list of seven wonders
41. UNESCO publicly disowns the New7Wonders campaign
42. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
43. Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
44. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
45. Petra
46. Machu Picchu
47. Taj Mahal
48. Great Wall of China
49. Chichen Itza
50. Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro
51. Egypt forces the Great Pyramid out of the New7Wonders ballot
52. UNESCO publicly disowns the New7Wonders campaign
53. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
54. Evidence
55. The earliest surviving text assembling seven marvels into a single list, and evidence that the canon originally included the walls of Babylon rather than the Lighthouse of Alexandria.
56. The fullest ancient description of the wonders as a set, written centuries after most had been ruined, and by a later Paradoxographer rather than the 3rd-century BCE engineer Philo Mechanicus.
57. Inscription years and property identities for the modern-list sites and Olympia.
58. 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.