Petra

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1. Story
2. The rock-cut capital of the Nabataean kingdom in southern Jordan, its monumental facades carved directly into sandstone cliffs. Al-Khazneh, the so-called Treasury, is generally dated to the late first century BCE or early first century CE and is often identified as the mausoleum of King Aretas IV. Petra was reintroduced to European scholarship in 1812 by the Swiss traveller Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, who reached it disguised as a pilgrim. It was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1985 and elected a New7Wonder in 2007.
3. Knowledge
4. Petra
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.