🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
K'ipakhara
K'ipakhara (Quechua k'ipa decomposed rests of plants in the field used as fertilizer, khara dung, Hispanicized spelling Quepacara) is an archaeological site in Peru.
Search places, or jump to a section
The catalogue
3,212 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.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
K'ipakhara (Quechua k'ipa decomposed rests of plants in the field used as fertilizer, khara dung, Hispanicized spelling Quepacara) is an archaeological site in Peru.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Horvat Maʿon (Hebrew) or Tell Maʿin / Khirbet el-Maʿin (Arabic) is an archaeological site located 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Gaza and 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) southeast of Kibbutz Nirim in the…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Temple complex
The Dormition Monastery of the Caves (Russian: Успенский пещерный монастырь; Ukrainian: Успенський печерний монастир), otherwise known as Bakhchysarai Cave Monastery, or Uspensky Cave Monastery is…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Al-'Ain al-Sokhna (Arabic: العين السخنة, romanized: al-ʿAyn as-Sukhna Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [elˈʕeːn esˈsoxnæ], "the Hot Spring") is a town in the Suez Governorate, lying on the western…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Junagadh Cave Groups are located in Junagadh district of the Indian state of Gujarat. These caves group includes Uparkot Caves, Khapra Kodiya Caves and Baba Pyare Caves.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Charax Spasinu, also called Charax Spasinou, Charax Pasinu, Spasinu Charax (Koine Greek: Σπασίνου Χάραξ, romanized: Spasínou Kháraks), Alexandria (Ἀλεξάνδρεια) or Antiochia in Susiana (Ἀντιόχεια τῆς…
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
The Palace of the Goyeneche (Spanish: Palacio de los Goyeneche) is a baroque palace located in Illana, Spain.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Bagai was a Roman–Berber city in the province of Africa Proconsularis. It must have been of some reasonable size, as it was also the seat of an ancient Catholic bishopric.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Cusae (Ancient Greek: Κοῦσαι or Κῶς; Coptic: ⲕⲱⲥⲉⲓ or ⲕⲟⲥⲉⲓ) was a city in Upper Egypt. Its Ancient Egyptian name was qjs (variant qsy), conventionally rendered Qis or Kis, with many further…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient village
Kulb is a village on the Nile in northern Sudan. It has been inhabited since the time of the Christian kingdom of Makuria.
🇶🇦 Qatar · Archaeological wonder
Qalaat al Thaqab (Arabic: قلعة الثقاب) is an abandoned village in Qatar, in the municipality of Al Shamal, approximately 110 km (68 mi) away from the capital Doha.
🇦🇱 Albania · Ancient city
Antigonia (Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνεια), also transliterated as Antigonea and Antigoneia, was an ancient Greek city in Chaonia, Epirus, and the chief inland city of the ancient Chaonians.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Cave of Horrors ('Ma'arat Ha'eimim') or Cave of Horror (Hebrew: מערת האימה, lit. 'Me'arat Ha'Eima') is the nickname given to a refuge cave that archaeologists have catalogued as Nahal Hever Cave 8…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Cooper's Cave is a series of fossil-bearing breccia filled cavities. The cave is located almost exactly between the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Kromdraai and…
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Archaeological wonder
Inkachaka or Inka Chaka (Quechua Inka Inca, chaka bridge, "Inca bridge", hispanicized spellings Incachaca, Inca Chaca) is an archaeological site in Bolivia.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Archaeological wonder
Cojitambo is an Inca and pre-Inca archaeological ruin, a popular rock climbing site, and a small village west of Azogues, capital of Canar province of Ecuador.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
The Petroglyphs of Eshkiolmes (Kazakh: Ешкіөлмес петроглифтері, romanized: Eşkiölmes petroglïfteri) are located throughout the Eshkiolmes mountain range in the Almaty region of Kazakhstan.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
The Ganjali Khan Complex (Persian: مجموعه گنجعلیخان, romanized: Majmou'e-ye Ganjali Khan) is a Safavid era building complex, located in the old city center of Kerman in Iran.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Aethalidae or Aithalidai (Ancient Greek: Αἰθαλίδαι) was a deme of ancient Attica, originally of the phyle of Leontis but after 307/6 BCE, of the phyle of Antigonis, sending two delegates to the…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Gharandal (Arabic: غرندل) is a town in the Tafilah Governorate in southern Jordan, located about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south-southeast of the governorate capital Tafilah.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Henchir Ziane is an archaeological site in southern Tunisia, located in the middle of the Zarzis peninsula, approximately 9 km west of the modern town.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Kfar Giladi (Hebrew: כפר גלעדי, lit. 'Giladi Village') is a kibbutz in the Galilee Panhandle of northern Israel.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Colcampata (Quechua qullqa, qulqa deposit, -n a suffix, pata elevated place / above, at the top / edge, bank (of a river), shore) is an archaeological site in Peru.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Hundersingen is a village within the municipality of Herbertingen and is part of the administrative district of Sigmaringen in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.