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Dilberjin Tepe, also Dilberjin or Delbarjin (Persian: دلبَرجین), is the modern name for the remains of an ancient town in modern (northern) Afghanistan.
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The Dolmen de la Pastora (also known as Cueva de la Pastora) is a prehistoric passage grave at Valencina de la Concepción near Seville, Spain. It has been dated to the Chalcolithic Age.
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Enkorika is a village and neolithic site in Kenya's Rift Valley Province. It is located in an upslope area, about 100 by 130 m. It was an Iron Age smelting site.
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Freienbach–Hurden Rosshorn, more often called Hurden Rosshorn or simply Rosshorn, is one of the 111 serial sites of the UNESCO World Heritage Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, of which are…
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Gamleborg, also known as Gamleborg Viking Fortress, was the first fortification on the Danish island of Bornholm.
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Garakopaktapa (Armenian: Գարակոպակտապա; Azerbaijani: Qaraköpəktəpə) is an ancient multilayer settlement of the Middle Bronze Age epoch, located in a basin of the Guruchay and Kondalanchay Rivers,…
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The Gaulstown Portal Tomb or Gaulstown Dolmen is a megalithic portal tomb situated in Gaulstown, Butlerstown in County Waterford, Ireland. It lies about 7 km south west of Waterford City.
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Hoedjiespunt is a Middle Pleistocene aged hominid fossil-bearing site on the West coast of South Africa, near the town of Saldanha Bay.
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Holtun, originally named La Máquina, is a Maya archaeological site located in the Petén Department of northern Guatemala on the road to Melchor de Mencos from Flores.
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Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks are a World Heritage Site in the United States preserving eight monumental earthworks constructed by the Hopewell tradition.
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Idomenae or Idomenai (Ancient Greek: Ἰδομεναί, possibly from Ἰδομενεύς - Idomeneus), also known as Eidomene (Εἰδομενή) or Idomene (Ἰδομένη), or Eidomenae or Eidomenai, or Idomenia, was a town of…
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Iñaq Uyu (Aymara, iñaqa a woman of noble caste of the Incas, uyu pen (enclosure), yard, cemetery, "pen of the iñaqa, the woman of the noble caste of the Incas", other spellings Iñac Uyu, Iñac Uyo,…
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Kadisoka (Indonesian: Candi Kadisoka) is a partially excavated temple, thought to be Hindu, in Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
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Kata Farm (Swedish: Kata Gård) is the remains of a large Viking-age farming estate, located in Varnhem, Västra Götaland.
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Aadloun, Adloun or Adlun (Arabic: عدلون, romanized: ʿAdlūn) is a coastal municipality in South Lebanon, 17 kilometres (11 mi) south of Sidon famous for its cultivation of watermelons.
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Ali Pasha Castle (Albanian: Kalaja e Ali Pashës) is a castle in Albania. It is named after Ali Pasha of Tepelenë who resided there until 1820.
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Anjar (meaning "unresolved or running river"; Arabic: عنجر / ALA-LC: ‘Anjar), also known as Hawsh Mousa (Arabic: حوش موسى / Ḥawsh Mūsá), is a town of Lebanon, near the Syrian border, located in the…
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Aswan is a city in Upper Egypt and the capital of the Aswan Governorate. The city of Aswan is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities, with its recorded history spanning over 2,600 years.
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Barda Balka is an archeological site near the Little Zab and Chamchamal in the Iraqi Kurdistan, north of modern-day Iraq.
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The Baroque fortifications in the Black Forest (German: Barocke Verteidigungsanlagen im Schwarzwald), also called Baroque Schanzen (Barockschanzen) or Black Forest lines (Schwarzwaldlinien), are…