🇶🇦 Qatar · Archaeological wonder
Al Da'asa
Al Da'asa (Arabic: دعسة) is an archaeological site located on the western coast of Qatar. It is the most extensive Ubaid site in the country. It was excavated by a Danish team in 1961.
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🇶🇦 Qatar · Archaeological wonder
Al Da'asa (Arabic: دعسة) is an archaeological site located on the western coast of Qatar. It is the most extensive Ubaid site in the country. It was excavated by a Danish team in 1961.
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Archaeological wonder
The archaeological site of Al Ashoosh is a third-millennium BC settlement located 70 km (43 mi) south of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Archaeological wonder
Halych (Ukrainian: Галич, IPA: [ˈɦɑlɪtʃ]; Romanian: Halici; Polish: Halicz; Russian: Галич, romanized: Galich; German: Halytsch, Halitsch or Galitsch; Yiddish: העליטש, romanized: Heylitsh) is a…
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Kenacheh Cave (Persian: کناچه, Kurdish:مرو کناچی) is an archaeological site in the southwest of Kurdistan Province, in west Iran.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
Jubail Church (Classical Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ ܕܐܬܘܖ̈ܝܐ, romanized: ʿĒḏtā ḏ-Maḏnḥā ḏ-ʾĀṯūrāyē; Arabic: كنيسة الجبيل) is an ancient church building near Jubail, a city in the Eastern province on the…
🇸🇾 Syria · Archaeological wonder
Tall Al-Hamidiya (also Tell Hamidiya, Tell Hamidiye, and Tell Hamidi) is an ancient Near Eastern archeological site the upper Hābūr region of modern-day Syria in the Al-Hasakah Governorate on a loop…
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
The Caixa de Rotllan (meaning "Roland's Tomb" in Catalan) is a dolmen in Arles-sur-Tech, Pyrénées-Orientales, southern France, dating back to the Neolithic period, during the second half of 3rd…
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Archaeological wonder
Bimaran is a locality, 11 km west of Jalalabad in Afghanistan. It is well known for the discovery of the Bimaran casket in one of the stupas (stupa Nb 2) located at Bimaran.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Archaeological wonder
Kaljaja is an archaeological site, which is located southeast of the village of Balovac, in municipality of Podujevo.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
The Katra Masjid is a former Shia caravanserai, mosque and tomb, in a partial ruinous state, located in the north eastern side of the city of Murshidabad, in the state of West Bengal, India.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Archaeological wonder
Amberd (Armenian: Ամբերդ) is a 10th-century fortress located 2,300 meters (7,500 ft) above sea level, on the slopes of Mount Aragats at the confluence of the Arkashen and Amberd rivers in the…
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Chartres (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁtʁ] ) is the prefecture of the Eure-et-Loir department in the Centre-Val de Loire region in France. It is located about 90 km (56 mi) southwest of Paris.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Archaeological wonder
Jach'a Phasa (Aymara, jach'a big, phasa edible earth, Hispanicized spellings Jachapasa, Jachapaza, Jachaphasa, Jachcha Paza) is an archaeological site in Bolivia located in the La Paz Department,…
🇶🇦 Qatar · Archaeological wonder
Freiha (Arabic: فريحة, romanized: Furayḥah) is a small deserted village on the north-western coast of the Qatar Peninsula in the Al Shamal municipality.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Archaeological wonder
Absalon's Castle, (Danish: Absalons borg) was a fortification on the island of Slotsholmen in Copenhagen, located at the site of the later Copenhagen Castle and Christiansborg Palace.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
Douwara is a Heavy Neolithic archaeological site of the Qaraoun culture located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) southwest of Ain Ebel in the Bint Jbeil District of Nabatieh Governorate in Lebanon.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Archaeological wonder
The Archaeology Museum of Pasca (Spanish: Museo Arqueológico de Pasca) is an archaeological museum located in Pasca, Colombia.
🇷🇺 Russia · Archaeological wonder
Ekven is an archaeological site in the Russian Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. It is located 30 km from the village of Uelen.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Durbi Takusheyi (or Durbi-ta-kusheyi, meaning "tombs of the chief priest") is a burial site and major archaeological landmark situated about 32 km east of Katsina in northern Nigeria.
🇶🇦 Qatar · Archaeological wonder
Lehsain (Arabic: لحصين; also spelled Al-Hussayn and Al Husain) is an abandoned village in Qatar located in the municipality of Al-Shahaniya.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
Jdeideh (Arabic: جديدة المتن, al-Judaydat; also Jdayde, Jdaideh or Jdeidet el-Matn), is a coastal municipality and the administrative capital of the Matn District in the Mount Lebanon Governorate.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Hu, Huw or Hiw (Arabic: هُو, Coptic: ϩⲱ, ϩⲟⲩ) is the modern name of an Egyptian town on the Nile, which in more ancient times was the capital of the 7th Nome of Upper Egypt.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
The European Archaeological Park at Bliesbruck-Reinheim, in the German municipality of Gersheim (Saarland) and the French municipality of Bliesbruck (Département Moselle), is a cross-border project…
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Archaeological wonder
Barus is a town and kecamatan (district) in Central Tapanuli Regency, North Sumatra Province, Sumatra, Indonesia.