New 7 Wonders of the World

[Christina]

Updated: 5:38 a.m. PT July 8, 2007LISBON, Portugal - Monuments in three Latin American countries were named among the new seven wonders of the world Saturday.Brazil's Statue of Christ Redeemer, Peru's Machu Picchu, and Mexico's Chichen Itza pyramid were chosen alongside the Great Wall of China, Jordan's Petra, the Colosseum in Rome and India's Taj Mahal.The sites were selected according to a tally of around 100 million votes cast by people around the world over the Internet and by cell phone text messages, the nonprofit organization that conducted the poll saidAmong the places left out were the Acropolis in Athens, Greece; the Statues of Easter Island, Chile; Cambodia's Angkor; Turkey's Hagia Sophia; and Russia's Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral.Those major attractions were on the shortlist of 21 before the announcement of the results at a ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal.The Great Pyramids of Giza, the only surviving structures from the original seven wonders of the ancient world, kept their status in addition to the new seven.