The Seven Missing Wonders of the World
November 11th, 2007 Posted in General
Friday’s Wall Street Journal had a fantastic story on the Seven Missing Wonders of the World and for now anyway you can find it online. (Much of their site is behind a paid wall though, so if that link doesn’t work next week, don’t blame me!) Remember, it wasn’t all that long ago in our history that the Dead Sea Scrolls, Machu Picchu, and King Tut’s tomb were the stuff of legend and rumor. There are other mysteries that are still hidden – and will be harder to uncover.
Check out the article to get the full rundown; it’s worth grabbing the November 9 print issue from a library archive if the link disappears. But the online version does have the same impressive graphics and text (for once). Here’s what the obsessive are still looking for:
1) The Tomb of Nefertiti – Egypt
2) Da Vinci’s Battle of Anghiari painting – behind a wall in Florence?
3) The (Russian) Amber Room – packed in boxes somewhere after WWII?
4) Amelia Earhart’s plane – somewhere in the South Pacific?
5) The San Jose shipwreck – off the coast of Colombia
6) The Holy Grail – anywhere or nowhere
7) Genghis Khan’s tomb – somewhere in Mongolia
3 Responses to “The Seven Missing Wonders of the World”
By Bernard on Nov 12, 2007
Grandma is still waiting for them to find that fountain of youth in Florida. And how about Atlantis?
By badamsambuu on Nov 28, 2008
I think that most interesting missing wonder is Genghis khan’s tomb
By Daneil on Nov 12, 2009
yeah..what about Atlantis?…I wonder why no one could fin them…Are they still there somewhere? or gone for lifetime..??