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🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
The Museum of the American Man (Portuguese: Museu do Homem Americano) is a museum located in the municipality of São Raimundo Nonato, in the state of Piauí, which is also home to the Serra da…
🇮🇹 Italy · Archaeological wonder
The Apostolic Palace of the Lateran (Latin: Palatium Apostolicum Lateranense), informally the Lateran Palace (Latin: Palatium Lateranense; Italian: Palazzo del Laterano), is an ancient palace of the…
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
The Little St Bernard Pass (French: Col du Petit Saint-Bernard, Italian: Colle del Piccolo San Bernardo) is a mountain pass in the Alps on the France–Italy border.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Kedesh (alternate spellings: Qedesh, Cadesh, Cydessa) was an ancient Canaanite and later Israelite settlement in Upper Galilee, mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Archaeological wonder
The Kingdom of Mapungubwe (pronounced mah-POON-goob-weh) was an ancient state located at the confluence of the Shashe and Limpopo rivers in present day South Africa, south of Great Zimbabwe.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Archaeological wonder
Groote Schuur (pronounced [ˈɣroːtə ˈsxyːr]; Dutch for 'big shed') is an estate in Cape Town, South Africa.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Archaeological wonder
Luxmanda is an archaeological site located in the north-central Babati District of Tanzania. It was discovered in 2012.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
Akkad was the capital of the Akkadian Empire, which was the dominant political force in Mesopotamia during a period of about 150 years in the last third of the 3rd millennium BC.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Archaeological wonder
Roman Empire
Cividade de Terroso was an ancient city of the Castro culture in North-western coast of the Iberian Peninsula, situated near the present bed of the Ave river, in the suburbs of present-day Póvoa de…
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Bronze Age
Lotz Cisterns (Hebrew: בורות לוץ, Borot Lotz; the spelling Loz is used, too) is an archaeological site in Negev Mountains, Israel, where 17 ancient water cisterns are located.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Al-Abbasiyya (Arabic: العباسية, romanized: al-Abbāsiyya, lit. 'the Abbasid place'), also known as Qasr al-Aghaliba (قصور الأغالبة, 'the Aghlabid palaces') and al-Qasr al-Qadim (القصر القديم, 'the old…
🇦🇹 Austria · Archaeological wonder
Czartoryski-Schlössel (Schlössel is roughly translatable as "small palace") was a palace called Weinhaus in the Währing district of Vienna, Austria.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
Deir al-Ashayer (Arabic: دير العشائر) is a village located in the Rashaya District of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Kagara is a community in Niger State, Nigeria, the headquarters of the Rafi Local Government Area.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Archaeological wonder
Kamphaeng Phet Historical Park is an archeological site in Kamphaeng Phet, Thailand. Along with Sukhothai Historical Park and Si Satchanalai historical park, it is a part of the UNESCO World Heritage…