🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Aniba (Nubia)
Aniba was a village in Nubia, about 230 km south of Aswan. The place is today flooded by Lake Nasser. In ancient times it was an important town called Miam.
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🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Aniba was a village in Nubia, about 230 km south of Aswan. The place is today flooded by Lake Nasser. In ancient times it was an important town called Miam.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Zilum is a settlement of the Gajiganna culture located in the Chad Basin of northeastern Nigeria, 72 km north of Maiduguri in Borno State and is dated to ca 600-400 BCE.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
Ard Tlaili or Tell Ard Tlaili is a small tell mound archaeological site in a plain at the foot of the Lebanon Mountains 11 km (7 mi) northwest of Baalbeck, in the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon.
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Arles (French: [aʁl]; Provençal: Arle [ˈaʀle]) is a coastal city and commune in southern France, a subprefecture in the Bouches-du-Rhône department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, in the…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Ashdod (Hebrew: אַשְׁדּוֹד, romanized: ʾašdōḏ, pronounced [ʔaʃˈdod]; Arabic: أسدود, romanized: ʾasdūd, pronounced [ʔasˈduːd], or إسدود, ʾisdūd [ʔɪsˈduːd]; Philistine: 𐤀𐤔𐤃𐤃, romanized: *ʾašdūd)…
🇧🇿 Belize · Ancient city
Baking Pot is a Maya archaeological site located in the Belize River Valley on the southern bank of the river, northeast of modern-day town of San Ignacio in the Cayo District of Belize; it is 6…
🇲🇾 Malaysia · Archaeological wonder
The Bujang Valley (originally in Sanskrit: Scholars' Valley, now in modern Malay: Lembah Bujang) is a sprawling 5th to 14th century CE Indianised Hindu-Buddhist historical complex, which is the…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Deekshabhoomi, also written as Deeksha Bhoomi, is a sacred monument of Navayana Buddhism located in Nagpur city in the state of Maharashtra in India; where Dr.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Archaeological wonder
Fes el Bali (Arabic: فاس البالي, romanized: Fās al-Bālī, lit. 'Old Fes') is the oldest part of Fez, Morocco.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
The Inca road system (also spelled Inka road system and in Quechua: Qhapaq Ñan meaning "royal road") was the most extensive and advanced transportation system in pre-Columbian South America.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Isunigu (also called Seneca, Esseneca, and Sinica) was a Cherokee town on the Keowee River. It was on the west side of the Keowee River, near the mouth of Coneross Creek, in today's Oconee County,…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Karanog (Meroitic: Nalote) was a Kushite town in Lower Nubia on the west bank of the Nile (near Qasr Ibrim).
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Temple complex
Gedong Songo (Indonesian: Candi Gedong Songo) is a group of Hindu temples located near Bandungan, Semarang Regency, in north Central Java, Indonesia.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
The Hitzacker Archaeological Centre (German: Archäologisches Zentrum Hitzacker) is an archaeological open-air museum in Hitzacker in the German state of Lower Saxony.
🇫🇮 Finland · Ancient city
Kierikki is an area located in Yli-Ii by the Ii River in Finland. It is about ten kilometres southeast and towards Pudasjärvi from Yli-Ii's centre.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
The Center for American Archeology, or CAA, is an independent non-profit 501(c)(3) research and education institution located in Kampsville, Illinois, USA, near the Illinois River.
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient city
Apollonia (Greek: Ἀπολλωνία) was an ancient city of Magna Graecia in Sicily, which, according to Stephanus of Byzantium, was situated in the neighbourhood of Aluntium and Calacte.
🇨🇱 Chile · Archaeological wonder
Chan-Chan is an archaeological site and beach on the coast of the commune of Mehuín in southern Chile.
🇩🇪 Germany · Tumulus
The Frankleben hoard is a significant hoard deposit of the European Bronze Age, associated with the Unstrut group (itself associated with the Tumulus or early Urnfield culture (ca. 1500–1250 BC)).
🇸🇪 Sweden · Archaeological wonder
Alby is a village on the Baltic Sea in the Hulterstad district at the western fringe of the Stora Alvaret on the island of Öland, Sweden.
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Archaeological wonder
Al Sufouh Archaeological Site at Al Sufouh in Dubai is owned and managed by Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, and consists of extensive but scattered areas of ancient occupation by a population known…
🇸🇻 El Salvador · Ancient city
Joya de Cerén (Jewel of Cerén in the Spanish language) is an archaeological site in La Libertad Department, El Salvador, featuring a pre-Columbian Maya farming village.
🇷🇴 Romania · Fortress
Bran Castle (Romanian: Castelul Bran; German: Schloss Bran or Die Törzburg; Hungarian: Törcsvári kastély) is a castle in Bran, 25 kilometres (16 mi) southwest of Brașov.
🇦🇱 Albania · Fortress
Gjirokastër Castle (Albanian: Kalaja e Gjirokastrës or Kalaja e Argjirosë) is a fortress in Gjirokastër, Albania (during Ottoman rule it was historically known as Ergiri while Greeks referred to it…