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Sat Sep 17, 2016, 01:13 PM Sep 2016

Nanjing's Porcelain Tower: Ancient 'world wonder' brought back to life

Nanjing's Porcelain Tower: Ancient 'world wonder' brought back to life
By Elaine Yu, CNN Updated 1117 GMT (1917 HKT) September 16, 2016

Nanjing, China (CNN)More than 150 years after rebels destroyed it, Nanjing's famed "Porcelain Tower" -- one of the Seven Medieval Wonders of the World -- has been brought back to life.

Sort of.

A modern, steel reconstruction of the pagoda now sits by the Yangtze River in the same area as the original, which was built in the early 15th century.



http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/16/travel/nanjing-china-reconstructed-porcelain-tower/index.html
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