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World Heritage quarries

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Verified51 Widely accepted3 Contested1 Hypothetical0 Unverified0 Pseudoarchaeology0

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Quarries55 Mines26 Ancient villages6 Hydraulic works6 Submerged sites3 Temple complexes3

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🇪🇬Egypt12 🇹🇷Turkey5 🇸🇩Sudan4 🇵🇰Pakistan3 🇺🇸United States2

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Excavated21 Partially excavated19 Excavation ongoing9 Unexcavated3 Submerged2

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quarry38 harappan6 ancient village4 ancestral pueblo3 chalcolithic3 roman3 submerged city3 yayoi

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Quarries

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✓VerifiedUNESCO

🇨🇱 Chile · Megalith

Rano Raraku Quarry detail

900–1500 CE · Rapa Nui

Cross-ref quarry within Rapa Nui National Park main entry; tuff quarry with 400 moai in situ including El Gigante (~21 m).

✓VerifiedUNESCO

🇮🇱 Israel · Cave

Maresha — Bell Cave Hellenistic Quarry City

Hellenistic (3rd–1st c. BCE) + earlier Iron Edomite Marissa · Idumean / Hellenistic Phoenician polis

Beit Guvrin park excavated by Peters & Thiersch 1902, bell caves industrial 500+, Apollophanes Tomb frescoed.

✓VerifiedUNESCO

🇰🇭 Cambodia · Quarry

Panel Golden Mine

Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo

Panel Golden Mine in Preah Vihear, Cambodia is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) quarry attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.

✓VerifiedUNESCO

🇰🇭 Cambodia · Quarry

Necropolis Quay Mine

Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan

Necropolis Quay Mine in Preah Vihear, Cambodia is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) quarry attributed to Harappan culture.