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🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Pleistocene · Oldowan
prehistoric site in Israel
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
The Lower Germanic Limes (Latin: limes ad Germaniam inferiorem, Dutch: Neder-Germaanse Limes, German: Niedergermanischer Limes) is the former frontier between the Roman province of Germania Inferior…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
The Durham University Observatory is a weather observatory owned and operated by the University of Durham.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
Cave of Gentio is a parietal art-bearing archaeological site situated about 30 km from Unaí, Minas Gerais, 180 km away from the Federal District.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
The Government Palace (Spanish: Palacio de Gobierno), also known as the House of Pizarro (Spanish: Casa de Pizarro), is the seat of the executive branch of the Peruvian government, and the official…
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Schloss Köpenick (English: Köpenick Palace) is a Baroque water palace of the Hohenzollern electors of Brandenburg which stands on an island in the Dahme River surrounded by an English-style park and…
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Gamla (Imperial Aramaic: גמלא, lit. 'the camel'), also Gamala, was an ancient Jewish town on the Golan Heights.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Khanileh (Persian: خانيله, also Romanized as Khānīleh; Kurdish: Xaníle) is a village in Dowlatabad Rural District, in the Central District of Ravansar County, Kermanshah province, Iran.
🇦🇹 Austria · Archaeological wonder
The Hofburg (German: [ˈhoːfbʊʁk]) is the former principal imperial palace of the Habsburg dynasty in Austria.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
Khinnis is an Assyrian archaeological site, also known as Bavian (its neighbouring village), in Duhok Governorate in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Archaeological wonder
The Kondoa Rock-Art Sites or Kondoa Irangi Rock Paintings are a series of ancient paintings on rockshelter walls in central Tanzania.
🇷🇺 Russia · Archaeological wonder
The Pazyryk burials are a number of Scythian (Saka) Iron Age tombs found in the Pazyryk Valley and the Ukok plateau in the Altai Mountains, Siberia, south of the modern city of Novosibirsk, Russia;…
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Lake Turkana () is a saline lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, predominantly in northern Kenya; the far northern end crosses into Ethiopia.