Great Wall of China

Assembled from 24 blocks · 3 evidence · 18 related

1. Story
2. Not one wall but a system of walls, watchtowers, passes and garrison works built and rebuilt across northern China over many centuries, most of the surviving masonry dating from the Ming dynasty. A six-year archaeological survey by China's State Administration of Cultural Heritage, announced on 5 June 2012, put the total length of all Great Wall works through all periods at 21,196.18 km across 43,721 recorded heritage sites. It was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1987 and elected a New7Wonder in 2007. Its shape defeats the idea of a wonder as a single object one can stand in front of.
3. Knowledge
4. Great Wall of China
5. New7Wonders Foundation
6. Connections
7. New7Wonders Foundation
8. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
9. China announces the measured length of the Great Wall
10. Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
11. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
12. Petra
13. Machu Picchu
14. Taj Mahal
15. Great Wall of China
16. Chichen Itza
17. Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro
18. Egypt forces the Great Pyramid out of the New7Wonders ballot
19. UNESCO publicly disowns the New7Wonders campaign
20. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
21. Evidence
22. The measured extent of the Great Wall system across all periods, establishing that it is a distributed network rather than a single monument.
23. Inscription years and property identities for the modern-list sites and Olympia.
24. 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.