Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said on Monday 7/5/2007 that Egypt paid no heed to the New Seven Wonders of the World list, which removed the Giza Pyramids and gave them an honourary status.

Hosni said Egypt had rejected the new list and its choices, noting that UNESCO had backed Egypt's stance. He further said that the matter of choosing the seven wonders should be the responsibility of top architects and astrologists not amateurs.

He added that his personal opinion on the pyramids is the same as that of every fonder of the Egyptian monuments. He said he received a letter from the founder of the so-called New Seven Wonders of the World Society in which he said an online competition had removed the Giza Pyramids from the list of modern-age wonders.

The Minister said the society's contest is profit-seeking and has nothing to do with culture.

"The Pyramids have no match in history and it is archeologists who should decide the world's wonders," he added.

Although he received a letter lately from the founder of the so-called New Seven Wonders of the World Society in which he said that the committee of the competition has chosen the Giza pyramids on top of the old and modern -age wonders, this change of mind makes no difference to Egypt which does not believe out from the beginning in a competition that is not based on scientific measures. Hosni added that this change of words is a result of Egypt's firm stand against the competition.