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Bhagwati Temple or Chandi Bhagwati Temple (Nepali language:चण्डी भगवती मन्दिर) is a famous Hindu temple situated in the heart of Rajbiraj, Saptari.
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There are two funerary hypogea in Biniai Nou (Mahón), which were built in the Chalcolithic period (the oldest phase with human presence known so far for the island of Menorca).
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The Bogoda Wooden Bridge was built in the 16th century during the Dambadeniya era. This is said to be the oldest surviving wooden bridge in Sri Lanka.
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Cerros is an Eastern Lowland Maya archaeological site in northern Belize that functioned from the Late Preclassic to the Postclassic period.
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Chandavaram Buddhist site is an ancient Indian Buddhist site in Chandavaram village in Prakasam district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
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Cloghanmore (translated as "the great stone heap" is a megalithic chamber tomb of the court tomb (or court cairn) type located about 8 km east from Carrick in Malin More, Glencolmcille, in County…
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Cocev Kamen (Macedonian: Цоцев Камен) is a hilltop cave site of volcanic origin near the town of Kratovo in the north-east of North Macedonia.
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Built in murus dacicus style, the six Dacian Fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains (Romanian: Cetăți dacice din Munții Orăștiei), in Romania, were created in the 1st centuries BC and AD as protection…
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Daisen-ji (大山寺) is a Buddhist temple located in the town of Daisen, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. It belongs to the Tendai sect of Japanese Buddhism, and its honzon is a statue of Jizo Bosatsu.
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Dongtalede (Ch: 东塔勒德) is an archaeological site in Xinjiang with numerous artifacts riminescent of the Scytho-Siberian art of Central Asia. It is dated to the 9th-7th century BCE.
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Fes el Bali (Arabic: فاس البالي, romanized: Fās al-Bālī, lit. 'Old Fes') is the oldest part of Fez, Morocco.
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Haibat Khan's Mosque is a mosque in Ahmedabad, in the state of Gujarat, India. The structure is a Monument of National Importance.
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Huaca de Chena, also known as the Chena Pukara, is an Inca site on Chena Mountain, in the basin of San Bernardo, at the edge of the Calera de Tango and Maipo Province communes in Chile.
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ISKCON Leicester is a Hare Krishna temple located in central Leicester, in the East Midlands region of England.
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Inkachaka or Inka Chaka (Quechua Inka Inca, chaka bridge, "Inca bridge", hispanicized spellings Incachaca, Inca Chaca) is an archaeological site in Bolivia.
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Juhor (Serbian Cyrillic: Јухор, pronounced [jûxɔr]) is a mountain in central Serbia, near the city of Paraćin. Its highest peak, Veliki Vetren, is at an elevation of 774 metres above sea level.
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Jumba la Mtwana is the site of historical structures and archaeological relics on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya, lying close to the Mtwapa Creek, in Kilifi county, north of Mombasa.
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Kaminahu (Arabic: مملكة كمنه; Old South Arabic: 𐩫𐩣𐩬𐩠𐩥 kmnhw; modern Kamna) is the name of an ancient South Arabian city in the northern al-Jawf region of present day Yemen, 107 km north-east of…
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The site of ancient settlement at Kanka (Uzbek: Qanqa), Uzbekistan, is located in 80 km southwest of Tashkent, in the southeastern outskirts of the Eltamgali settlement.
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The archaeological site of Abu Salabikh (Tell Abū Ṣalābīkh), around 20 km (12 mi) northwest of the site of ancient Nippur and about 150 kilometers southeast of the modern city of Baghdad in…