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Derinkuyu underground city — Wikipedia

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Derinkuyu Underground City

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Great Pyramid of Cholula — Wikipedia

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Great Pyramid of Cholula

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Great Zimbabwe — Wikipedia

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Great Zimbabwe was a city in the south-eastern hills of the modern country of Zimbabwe, near Masvingo.

Great Zimbabwe

From the atlas bibliography · Sep 22, 2026Open source

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Harappa — Wikipedia

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Harappa (Punjabi pronunciation: [ɦəɽəˈpaː]) is an archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, about 24 kilometres (15 miles) west of Sahiwal, that takes its name from a modern village near the former…

Harappa

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Herculaneum — Wikipedia

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Herculaneum

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Ilion — Wikipedia

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Ilion may refer to: Ilion (Ἴλιον) or (Latinized) Ilium, an Archaic name for the pre-classical city of Troy, hence the title of Homer's Iliad, also a Byzantine city and bishopric, which remains a…

Troy (Hisarlik)

From the atlas bibliography · Sep 22, 2026Open source

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Mesa Verde National Park — Wikipedia

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Mesa Verde National Park is a national park of the United States and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, and the only World Heritage Site in Colorado.

Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings

From the atlas bibliography · Sep 22, 2026Open source

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Mohenjo-daro — Wikipedia

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Mohenjo-daro (; Sindhi: موهن جو دڙو, lit. 'Mound of the Dead Men'; Urdu: موئن جو دڑو [muˑənⁱ dʑoˑ d̪əɽoˑ]) is an archaeological site in the Larkana District of Sindh, Pakistan. Built c.

Mohenjo-daro

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Petra — Wikipedia

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Petra (Arabic: ٱلْبَتْراء, romanized: Al-Batrāʾ; Ancient Greek: Πέτρα, lit. 'Rock'), originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu (Nabataean Aramaic: 𐢛𐢚𐢒‎ or 𐢛𐢚𐢓𐢈‎, *Raqēmō), is an ancient…

Petra

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Pompeii — Wikipedia

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Pompeii

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Pyramid of the Moon — Wikipedia

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Pyramid of the Moon

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Pyramid of the Sun — Wikipedia

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Pyramid of the Sun

From the atlas bibliography · Sep 22, 2026Open source

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Tikal Temple IV — Wikipedia

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Tikal Temple IV

From the atlas bibliography · Sep 22, 2026Open source

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Çatalhöyük — Wikipedia

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Çatalhöyük (English: Chatalhoyuk; , cha-tal-HOO-yuhk; Turkish pronunciation: [tʃaˈtaɫhœjyc]; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük; from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") is a tell (a mounded…

Çatalhöyük

From the atlas bibliography · Sep 22, 2026Open source

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Almendres Cromlech — Wikipedia

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Almendres Cromlech

From the atlas bibliography · Sep 22, 2026Open source

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Bent Pyramid — Wikipedia

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Bent Pyramid

From the atlas bibliography · Sep 22, 2026Open source

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Dowth — Wikipedia

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Dowth

From the atlas bibliography · Sep 22, 2026Open source

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Göbekli Tepe — Wikipedia

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Göbekli Tepe (Turkish pronunciation: [ɟœbecˈli teˈpe] 'Potbelly Hill'; Kurdish: Girê Mirazan or Xerabreşkê, 'Wish Hill') is a Neolithic archaeological site in Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira) in…

Göbekli Tepe

From the atlas bibliography · Sep 22, 2026Open source

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Karahan Tepe — Wikipedia

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Karahan Tepe

From the atlas bibliography · Sep 22, 2026Open source

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Mnajdra — Wikipedia

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Mnajdra

From the atlas bibliography · Sep 22, 2026Open source

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