🇸🇮 Slovenia · Archaeological wonder
Carli Mansion
The Carli Mansion (Slovene: palača Carli; Italian: palazzo Carli) is a mansion in Koper, a port town in southwestern Slovenia.
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🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Panel Qasr Ancient City in Aswan Governorate, Egypt is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) ancient city attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇸🇮 Slovenia · Archaeological wonder
The Carli Mansion (Slovene: palača Carli; Italian: palazzo Carli) is a mansion in Koper, a port town in southwestern Slovenia.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Early Bronze IVA–B (2400–1600 BCE) · Eblaite Semitic (Northwest Semitic)
Syrian superpower Ebla (c.3500–1600 BCE) with double-walled city (60 ha) and Royal Palace G — where Paolo Matthiae 1975 found the Ebla archive: 17,000 cuneiform tablets in Sumerian and Eblaite…
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Cave
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Kala Town Grotto in Northern Tigray, Ethiopia is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) cave attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Rock-cut tradition
Longmen — Binyang Central Cave North Wall in Henan, Luoyang, Longmen, China is a Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) rock_cut attributed to Rock-cut tradi…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Early Pandya origins 6th c., current Nayak 1623–1655 CE · Hindu (Shavite-Shakti) under Nayak kingdom of Madurai
Sprawling Nayak temple-city with 14 colourful gopurams and musical stone pillars.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Padri — Gulf of Khambhat Harappan in Gujarat, Gulf of Khambhat, India is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) ancient city attributed to Harappan culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Quarry
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Quarry of Terramare Bajada Farm in River Nile State, Sudan is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) quarry attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Rock art
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Rock Art of Cross-Cliff in Northern Tigray, Ethiopia is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) rock art attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Hyksos to Ptolemaic (1720 BCE – 73 CE) · Hyksos / Egyptian / Ptolemaic Jewish (Onias)
Northern spur of the classic double-tell of Yahudiya, with Hyksos rampart extension and Onias-period Jewish cemetery north of the temple platform where Petrie found inverted pots a...
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Archaeological wonder
Choto Katra (Bengali: ছোট কাটারা; Small Katra) is one of two Katras built during Mughal rule in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was constructed in 1663 by Subahdar Shaista Khan.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic–Chalcolithic (7040–5400 BCE) · Hacılar culture (Lake District)
Neolithic–Chalcolithic (7040–5400 BCE) Hacılar culture (Lake District) tell at Burdur Province, Lake District – painted pottery type-site with burnt houses (dims Mound 150×120 m, 9 m Late Neolithic–Chalcolithic).
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Ileret (also spelled Illeret) is a village in Marsabit County, Kenya. It is located in Northern Kenya, on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana, north of Sibiloi National Park and near the Ethiopian…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Neolithic to Abbasid (6000 BCE–present; Assyrian capital 705–612 BCE) · Assyrian / Babylonian / Persian / Hellenistic / Parthian
Great Assyrian capital under Sennacherib (705–681 BCE) extended by Ashurbanipal (668–630 BCE), Nineveh at fall (612 BCE) was world's largest city (~15 km walls, 100,000 inhabitants).
🇹🇭 Thailand · Rock-cut
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Chashma Dara Rock-Cut Complex in Buriram Province, Thailand is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) rock_cut attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Fortress
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Fortress of Kurgan Ton in Catamarca, Argentina is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) fortress attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Archaeological wonder
Freienbach–Hurden Rosshorn, more often called Hurden Rosshorn or simply Rosshorn, is one of the 111 serial sites of the UNESCO World Heritage Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, of which are…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Furnace Ancient Village in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) ancient village attributed to Harappan culture.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
The Gawhar Shad Mausoleum, also known as the Tomb of Baysunghur, is a former Islamic burial structure located in what is now Herat, Afghanistan.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Middle Neolithic to Bronze Age · Funnel Beaker → Corded Ware → Bronze Age
Lüneburg Heath megalithic necropolis of four Funnel Beaker long dolmens spanning 3400-1000 BCE on heath ridge.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Late Horizon Inca Imperial 1440–1536 CE · Inca
Qhapaq Ñan tambo with 28-niche polygonal usnu platform of perfectly fitted octagonal andesite.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Tumulus
Vendel Period to Early Middle Ages (c.500–1150 CE) · Vendel Period Scandinavia / Early Swedish Kingdom
Magnate complex with three monumental Vendel Period royal burial mounds (Östhögen, Mellanhögen, Västhögen, 50–75 m diameter, 8–11 m high, c.550–600 CE), Thing mound and a 12th-century church on the…
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Temple complex
Grand Mosque of Medan or Masjid Raya Al-Mashun ("Al-Mashun Grand Mosque") is a mosque located in Medan, Indonesia. The mosque was built in the year 1906 and completed in 1909.
🇦🇹 Austria · Ancient city
The ruins of Aguntum are an ancient Roman site in East Tirol, Austria, located approximately four kilometres (2.5 mi) east of Lienz in the Drau valley.
