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Places that defy a simple label.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Earthwork
Bronze Age to Early Iron Age · Kura-Araxes to Trialeti pastoralists
20 high-altitude kites on Mount Aragats (3000–800 BCE)—Caucasus extension 1,200 km from Levant.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
The European Archaeological Park at Bliesbruck-Reinheim, in the German municipality of Gersheim (Saarland) and the French municipality of Bliesbruck (Département Moselle), is a cross-border project…
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Archaeological wonder
Barus is a town and kecamatan (district) in Central Tapanuli Regency, North Sumatra Province, Sumatra, Indonesia.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Archaeological wonder
The Reserva Provincial Castillos de Pincheira (Spanish: Pincheira's Castles Provincial Reserve) is a natural area protected in Argentina.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Archaeological wonder
Büyük Han (lit. 'Great Inn') (Greek: Μεγάλο Πανδοχείο, romanized: Megálo Pandocheío) is the largest caravansarai on the island of Cyprus and is considered to be one of the finest buildings on the…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Archaeological wonder
The Greby grave field (Swedish: Greby gravfält) is an Iron Age grave field in western Sweden. It is located north of Grebbestad, Tanum Municipality in Västra Götaland County.
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
The Lerma Ducal Palace is the palace of the dukes of Lerma in Lerma (Burgos) in Spain, occupying the whole of one side of the city's Plaza.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
The Eremitage Maria Reizenborn, or Räzebore, is a former hermitage in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (Hunsrück mountain range).
🇿🇦 South Africa · Archaeological wonder
Diepkloof Rock Shelter is a rock shelter in Western Cape, South Africa in which has been found some of the earliest evidence of the human use of symbols, in the form of patterns engraved upon ostrich…
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Amin od-Dowleh Plaza (Persian: تیمچه امین الدوله) is one of several timchehs in the grand Bazaar of Kashan, Iran.
🇷🇺 Russia · Archaeological wonder
Etoko (Russian: Этоко; Kabardian: Ятӏэкъуэ, romanized: Yat’eqwe) is a village (selo) in Zolsky District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Russia, located 6 kilometers (3.7 mi) from Zalukokoazhe.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Archaeological wonder
Godavaya or Godawaya is a small fishing hamlet located at the mouth of the Walawe river, between Ambalantota and Hambantota in the Hambantota District in southern Sri Lanka.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Archaeological wonder
The Alvastra pile-dwelling (Swedish: Alvastra pålbyggnad or Alvastraboplatsen) is a pile dwelling (also called a stilt house) from ca 3000 BC in Alvastra, Ödeshög Municipality, Östergötland County,…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Gebel al-Ain is a plateau in Sudan at the border between the Northern State and North Kordofan.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Bronze Age
Kinneret (Hebrew: כִּנֶּרֶת, romanized: Kīnnereṯ) is the name of an important Bronze and Iron Age city of the ancient Levant situated on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Khirbet Qana (Arabic: خربة قانا), is an archaeological site in the Lower Galilee of Israel. It has remains of a settlement from the Hellenistic period to the Early Arab period.
🇶🇦 Qatar · Archaeological wonder
Al Khor Island (Arabic: جزيرة الخور), also known as Jazirat bin Ghanim or Purple Island, is an island located in the municipality of Al Khor on the northeast coast of Qatar.
🇳🇪 Niger · Ancient village
Early to Middle Holocene (7700–2500 BCE) · Kiffian/AA foragers → Tenerian pastoralists
Gobero lakeside cemeteries tracking 5,000 years of Sahara greening and desertification.
🇨🇱 Chile · Ancient village
Late Pleistocene 14,800–13,000 BP (MV-II 14,800 BP; MV-I earlier claim 33,000 BP contested) · Late Paleoindian (pre-Clovis; Monte Verde culture, Austral–Magellanic hunter-gatherers)
Earliest securely dated settlement in Americas (14,800–14,500 BP) – late Pleistocene campsite on paleo-channel terrace in southern Chile with preserved tent floors (3 structures 30 m² total,…
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Archaeological wonder
Inka Raqay (Quechua Inka Inca, raqay ruin, a demolished building; shed, storehouse or dormitory for the laborers of a farm; a generally old building without roof, only with walls) is an…
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Early to Late Bronze via Early Iron · Kura-Araxes, Trialeti, Lchashen-Metsamor, Urartian fringe
Lower southeast lava field 1.1 km from crater lake with 380 boulders and vishap cart motifs.
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
The Fabra Observatory (Catalan: Observatori Fabra, IPA: [upsəɾβəˈtɔɾi ˈfaβɾə]; obs. code: 006) is an astronomical observatory located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain pointed towards the south at 415…
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Archaeological wonder
Khiva (Uzbek: Xiva, Хива, خیوه; other names) is a district-level city of approximately 93,000 people in Khorazm Region, Uzbekistan.
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Archaeological wonder
Julfar (Arabic: جلفار) was an Islamic-era port, trading entrepôt and settlement, which formed a key element in the Arab trading networks that straddled East and West throughout the Islamic period…
