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Websitewhc.unesco.org

Baiheliang – UNESCO Tentative

UNESCO WHC 18547 · 2006

Baiheliang – White Crane Ridge Hydrological Inscriptions

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2006Open source

Websitewhc.unesco.org

Suakin Tentative WHC

UNESCO · 1994

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Suakin – Coral Island Port of the Red Sea

From the atlas bibliography · Published 1994Open source

Websitewhc.unesco.org

Delos UNESCO 530

UNESCO · 1990

Delos–Rheneia Causeway – Cycladic Sacred Harbour Dromus

From the atlas bibliography · Published 1990Open source

Websitewhc.unesco.org

Portus – UNESCO Tentative WHC 1568

UNESCO · 1990

Portus Claudius & Trajan's Hexagon – Imperial Harbour Basins of Claudius and Trajan

From the atlas bibliography · Published 1990Open source

Websitehistoricengland.org.uk

Pastscape 81448 Ravenser Odd

Historic England · 2023

Ravenser Odd – Humber Estuary Lost Port

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2023Open source

Websitedunwichmuseum.org.uk

Dunwich Museum collections

Dunwich Museum · 2022

Dunwich – England's Lost Medieval Port

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2022Open source

Websitenationalgeographic.com

Shi Cheng – China's Atlantis

National Geographic · 2011

Shi Cheng – Lion City of Qiandao Lake

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2011Open source

Websiteen.wikipedia.org

Buto–Maadi culture — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia

Culture context for Khilgan

Kom el-Khilgan (Khilgan)

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

Websiteen.wikipedia.org

Catacomb culture — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia

The Catacomb culture (Russian: Катакомбная культура, romanized: Katakombnaya kul'tura, Ukrainian: Катакомбна культура, romanized: Katakombna kul'tura) was a Bronze Age archaeological culture which…

Sukhaya Termista — Catacomb Culture Kurgan Field

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

Websiteen.wikipedia.org

Dereivka — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia

Sredny Stog and horse debate

Dereivka (Sredny Stog / Dereivka site)

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

Websiteen.wikipedia.org

Khvalynsk culture — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia

The Khvalynsk culture is a Middle Copper Age Eneolithic culture (c. 4900 – 3500 BCE) of the middle Volga region. It takes its name from Khvalynsk in Saratov Oblast.

Khvalynsk Cemetery (Khvalynsk I-II)

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

Websiteen.wikipedia.org

Kostromskaya (kurgan) — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia

Kostromskaya Kurgan (Kuban Scythian)

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

Websiteen.wikipedia.org

Maykop culture — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia

The Maykop culture or Maikop culture (Russian: майкоп, [mɐjˈkop], scientific transliteration: Majkop,), c.

Ostadniy Kurgan (Maykop / Maikop)

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

Websiteen.wikipedia.org

Novocherkassk treasure — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia

Novocherkassk (Russian: Новочерка́сск, lit. 'New Cherkassk') is a city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located near the confluence of the Tuzlov and Aksay Rivers, the latter a distributary of the Don River.

Khokhlach Kurgan (Sarmatian Novocherkassk Hoard)

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

Websiteen.wikipedia.org

Novosvobodnaya — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia

Novosvobodnaya (Russian: Новосвободная; Adyghe: Мамрыкъуай) is a rural locality (a stanitsa) in Abadzekhskoye Rural Settlement of Maykopsky District, Russia. The population was 591 as of 2018.

Novosvobodnaya (Maïkop Dolmens)

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

Websiteen.wikipedia.org

Pithom — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia

Pithom (Ancient Egyptian: pr-jtm; Biblical Hebrew: פִּתֹם, romanized: Pīṯōm; Koine Greek: Ἡρώπόλις, romanized: Hērṓpólis or Ἡρώωνπόλις Hērṓōnpólis, and Πατούμος Patoúmos) was an ancient city of Egypt.

Tell el-Maskhuta (Pithom)

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

Websiteen.wikipedia.org

Samara culture — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia

The Samara culture is an Eneolithic (Copper Age) culture dating to the turn of the 5th millennium BCE, at the Samara Bend of the Volga River (modern Russia).

Samara Culture (Sokol Povolzhye Sites)

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

Websiteen.wikipedia.org

Srubnaya culture — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia

Pokrovka — Srubnaya (Timber Grave) Cemetery

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

Websiteen.wikipedia.org

Tanis — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia

Tanis (Sân el-Hagar)

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

Websiteen.wikipedia.org

Tell El Yahudiyeh — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia

Tell el-Yahudiya

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

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