🇿🇦 South Africa · Archaeological wonder
Klasies River Caves
The Klasies River Caves are a series of caves located east of the Klasies River Mouth on the Tsitsikamma coast in the Humansdorp district of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Archaeological wonder
Golden Acre (Cape Town)
Golden Acre is a shopping mall on the corner of Adderley and Strand Streets in the central business district of Cape Town, South Africa.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Hydraulic works
Zaghouan Aqueduct — Carthage Water Supply
Roman Imperial (Hadrianic, 2nd c. CE) · Roman Africa Proconsularis (Latin-Tunisian)
Hadrianic 132-km aqueduct Zaghouan to Carthage with 17-km arcade, Rome's longest.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
Blaauboschkraal stone ruins
The Blaauboschkraal stone ruins are a provincial heritage site in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. Its neighbouring town, Emgwenya, is 10 kilometres away.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Boomplaas Cave
Boomplaas Cave is located in the Cango Valley in the foothills of the Swartberg mountain range, north of Oudtshoorn, Eden District Municipality in the Western Cape Province, South Africa.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Archaeological wonder
Border Cave
Border Cave is an archaeological site located in the western Lebombo Mountains in Kwazulu-Natal.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Cango Caves
The Cango Caves are located in Precambrian limestones at the foothills of the Swartberg range near the town of Oudtshoorn, in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Archaeological wonder
Canteen Kopje
Canteen Kopje is an archaeological site, formally protected as a grade 2 provincial heritage site, and approved in 2017 for re-grading to national status, situated outside Barkly West in the Northern…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Cooper's 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…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Archaeological wonder
Drimolen
The Drimolen Palaeocave System consists of a series of terminal Pliocene to early Pleistocene hominin-bearing palaeocave fills located around 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Johannesburg, South…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Elands Bay Cave
Elands Bay Cave is located near the mouth of the Verlorenvlei estuary on the Atlantic coast of South Africa's Western Cape Province.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Archaeological wonder
Eye of Kuruman
The Eye of Kuruman (Afrikaans: Die Oog) is a spring in the town of Kuruman (part of the Ga-Segonyana Local Municipality) in the province of Northern Cape, South Africa.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Gladysvale Cave
Gladysvale Cave is a fossil-bearing breccia filled cave located about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) northeast of the well-known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Swartkrans and about…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Archaeological wonder
Groote Schuur
Groote Schuur (pronounced [ˈɣroːtə ˈsxyːr]; Dutch for 'big shed') is an estate in Cape Town, South Africa.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Archaeological wonder
Hoedjiespunt
Hoedjiespunt is a Middle Pleistocene aged hominid fossil-bearing site on the West coast of South Africa, near the town of Saldanha Bay.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Archaeological wonder
Howieson's Poort Shelter
Howieson's Poort Shelter is a small rock shelter in South Africa containing the archaeological site from which the Howiesons Poort period in the Middle Stone Age gets its name.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Archaeological wonder
Kromdraai fossil site
Kromdraai (Afrikaans for "crooked turn") is a fossil-bearing breccia-filled cave located about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) east of the well-known South African hominid-bearing site of Sterkfontein and…
🇸🇴 Somalia · Archaeological wonder
Laas Geel
Neolithic Pastoral (c.5000–3000 BCE; dated by stratum ceramics) · Early Cushitic Pastoral Neolithic / Horn of Africa pastoralists
Exceptionally preserved Neolithic rock art shelters discovered 2002 by French team (Xavier Gutherz): 10 granite alcoves with polychrome paintings 5000–3000 BCE – long-horned cattle with udders,…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Archaeological wonder
Makapansgat
Makapansgat () (or Makapan Valley World Heritage Site) is an archaeological location within the Makapansgat and Zwartkrans Valleys, northeast of Mokopane in Limpopo province, South Africa.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape
Early to Middle Iron Age (K2 culture 1000–1220; Mapungubwe phase 1220–1290 CE) · Gokomere-Zhizo / Kalanga-Shona precursor / Mapungubwe culture
Iron Age kingdom (900–1290 CE) on Shashe–Limpopo confluence, Mapungubwe was southern Africa's earliest class-stratified state: elite on Mapungubwe Hill, commoners at foot, gold working – famous gold…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Archaeological wonder
Melville Koppies
Melville Koppies is a nature reserve and a Johannesburg City Heritage Site in Johannesburg, South Africa. The word 'koppie' means small hill. Iron Age artifacts can still be found at the site.
