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28 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Kafr Kanna (Arabic: كفر كنا, Kafr Kanā; Hebrew: כַּפְר כַּנָּא) is an Arab town in the Galilee, part of the Northern District of Israel.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Bir al-Maksur or Beer el-Maksura (Arabic: بئر المكسور; Hebrew: בִּיר אל-מַכְּסוּר) is an Arab Bedouin local council in the Northern District of Israel located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) north-west of…
🇮🇱 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.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Khirbet Qana (Arabic: خربة قانا), is an archaeological site in the Lower Galilee of Israel. It has remains of a settlement from the Hellenistic period to the Early Arab period.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Khirbet Shema is an archaeological site located in Israel at the foot of Mount Meron. It features the ruins of a large Jewish village of the Roman and Byzantine periods, including the remains of an…
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Beth Alpha (Hebrew: בֵּית אַלְפָא, romanized: bēṯ alp̄āʾ) is an ancient former Jewish synagogue, located at the foot of the northern slopes of the Gilboa mountains near Beit She'an, in the Northern…
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Kafr Yasif (Arabic: كفر ياسيف, Kufr Yasīf; Hebrew: כַּפְר יָסִיף) is an Arab town in the Northern District of Israel.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
The Kfar Bar'am Synagogue (Hebrew: כְּפַר בַּרְעָם), also known as the Kafar Berem Synagogue, is the archaeological ruins of two former ancient Jewish synagogues, located at the site of Kafr Bir'im,…
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
The Maoz Haim Synagogue was a former ancient Jewish synagogue and now archeological site, that is located near Maoz Haim, in the Beit She'an region, in the Jezreel Valley area of the Galilee district…
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Begusarai is a city in the Indian state of Bihar and the administrative headquarters of the Begusarai district.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Khorramabad (Persian: خرمآباد; [xorræmɒːˈbɒːd]; Northern Luri: خۉرمۊه, Northern Luri pronunciation: [xoɾˈmʉ.æ]) is a city in the Central District of Khorramabad County, Lorestan province, Iran,…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
Eski Mosul (Arabic: أسكي موصل) is a village in Mosul District, in present-day northern Iraq. Located just downstream from the Mosul Dam, Eski Mosul is the site of the ancient and medieval city of Balad.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Archaeological site in the northern Negev, Israel
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Germanic people
The Kalkrieser Berg (also called the Schmittenhöhe) is a hill, 157 m high, between the villages of Venne and Engter in the district of Osnabrück.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park is a national park in the Judaean Foothills of central Israel, containing a large network of caves recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Abeen (Arabic: عبين) is a Jordanian village located in Ajloun Governorate in northern Jordan. Administratively, it is part of the Sakrah District within the Qasabah Ajloun Brigade.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Kalkriese is a village now administratively part of the city of Bramsche in the district of Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Inka Raqay or Inkaraqay (Quechua Inka Inca, raqay ruin, a demolished building; shed, storehouse or dormitory for the laborers of a farm; a generally old building without roof, only with walls) is a…