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Inka Raqay or Inkaraqay (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 a…
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Intikancha (Quechua inti sun, kancha enclosure, enclosed place, yard, a frame, or wall that encloses, "sun yard", Hispanicized spelling Inticancha) is a mountain with an archaeological site of the…
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Isunigu (also called Seneca, Esseneca, and Sinica) was a Cherokee town on the Keowee River. It was on the west side of the Keowee River, near the mouth of Coneross Creek, in today's Oconee County,…
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Killa Mach'ay (Quechua killa moon, mach'ay cave, "moon cave", also spelled Killa Machay, Killamachay, Quillamachay) is an archaeological site with rock paintings and petroglyphs in Peru.
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The Abrigo de Santa Elina is a rocky archaeological site located in the Serra das Araras mountain range, in the municipality of Jangada, Mato Grosso, 82 km from Cuiabá, and is considered the second…
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Aethalidae or Aithalidai (Ancient Greek: Αἰθαλίδαι) was a deme of ancient Attica, originally of the phyle of Leontis but after 307/6 BCE, of the phyle of Antigonis, sending two delegates to the…
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The Agrour Amogjar is a 690 m high peak near the Amogjar Pass, in the Adrar plateau of central Mauritania. Its small natural shelters house a rich collection of rock paintings in a damaged state.
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Anraku-ji (安楽寺) is a Buddhist temple of the Kōyasan Shingon-shū in Kamiita, Tokushima, Japan. Temple 6 on the Shikoku Pilgrimage, the main image is of Bhaisajyaguru (Yakushi Nyōrai).
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Assandh, historically known as Āsandīvat, is a town and municipal committee in the Karnal district of the Indian state of Haryana. Assandh is located in 45 km south-west of Karnal.
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Qalaat al Thaqab (Arabic: قلعة الثقاب) is an abandoned village in Qatar, in the municipality of Al Shamal, approximately 110 km (68 mi) away from the capital Doha.
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Binnayaga Buddhist Caves also known as Vinayaka or Vinayaga are located at village Binnayaga in the state of Rajasthan, India.
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Blagaj (Serbian Cyrillic: Благај) is a historic village and protected heritage site in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Boudha Stupa (Nepali: बौद्ध; Newari: खास्ति चैत्य), Boudhanath Stupa (Standard Tibetan: བྱ་རུང་ཁ་ཤོར།, Wylie: bya rung ka shor), also known as Khasti Chaitya or Khāsa Chaitya, is a stupa and major…
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Boundary Stones is an archaeological site in Ukraine since the Late Neolithic located in Kropyvnytskyi Raion of Kirovohrad Oblast.
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Brittenburg was a Roman ruin site west of Leiden between Katwijk aan Zee and Noordwijk aan Zee, presumably identical to the even older Celtic Lugdunum fortress.
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Bukit Bunuh is a 180 m (590 ft) hill located within an oil palm plantation in Perak, Malaysia. The site is of geological and palaeoarchaeological interest.
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Celathara was a town of Ancient Thessaly. Livy relates that the retreat of Philip V of Macedon after the Battle of the Aous (198 BC) allowed the Aetolians to occupy much of Thessaly, and these latter…
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The China pavilion at Expo 2010 (simplified Chinese: 中国国家馆; traditional Chinese: 中國國家館; pinyin: Zhōngguó guójiā guǎn) in Pudong, Shanghai, colloquially known as the Oriental Crown (东方之冠; 東方之冠;…
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The Cojines del Zaque (English: "Cushions of the Zaque") is an archeological site of the Muisca located in the city of Tunja, Boyacá, which in the time of the Muisca Confederation was called Hunza.
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The Con Moong cave (Vietnamese: Hang Con Moong, "beast" cave) is located in the Cúc Phương National Park, just south of Mọ village, in the Thanh Hóa Province, northern Vietnam.