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🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chimu (900-1470 CE) · Chimu
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle in La Libertad, Peru is a Chimu (900-1470 CE) ancient-city.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age (2500–1500 BCE) · Recumbent Stone Circle builders
Gowk Hill stone circle on a ridge west of Insch, Aberdeenshire, an upland circle of eight granitic boulders enclosing a slight interior cairn, part of the Aberdeenshire recumbent circle concentration…
🇰🇪 Kenya · Megalith
Pastoral Neolithic / Sirikwa · Elmenteitan / Sirikwa
Pastoral Neolithic–Sirikwa mound (1500 BCE to 1500 CE) atop tukana hill: stone-walled enclosures, 30-cairn necropolis with Elmenteitan obsidian blades, 20 crouched burials and Nderit ceramics.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Jomon · Jomon
Jomon ancient-city at Haryana.
🇮🇹 Italy · Buried city
Roman (foundation Oscan 6th c BCE, Roman from 80 BCE) · Roman
Roman city of 12,000 buried by Vesuvius eruption 24 August 79 CE under 4–6 m pumice and ash, preserving streets, villas, Forum, amphitheatre, baths and plaster casts of victims.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Fortress
Ertij is a fort built during the 13th century. It is situated upon a hill adjacent to the village of Arpi in the Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
Kfar Tebnit or Kfartebnit (Levantine Arabic: كفرتبنيت, romanized: Kfartebnīt) is a municipality located approximately 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south southeast of Nabatieh, 37 kilometres (23 mi)…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Pharaonic / Graeco-Roman · Egyptian / Greek / Roman
Nome capital whose rubbish mounds yielded 500,000+ Greek papyri (Grenfell & Hunt 1896–1906) – Sappho, Menander, Gospel of Thomas.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman / Byzantine · Roman
Veteran colonia of Nerva (97 CE) raised to capital of Mauretania Sitifensis by Diocletian. Byzantine fortress 548×416 m encloses forum under modern city; museum holds mosaic hoard; centuriation grid…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Almorada (Arabic: الموردة / transliterated: Almo rada) is an ancient district in Omdurman city, Khartoum State, Sudan. Almorada neighborhood is one of the most prestigious districts in the Eastern part of Omdurman city.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Fortress
Castle Kopje is an Iron Age site located in east-central Zimbabwe, dating back to the second millennium. It is believed to have been a smaller settlement during the period when the Kingdom of Zimbabwe was at its height.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bagratuni Armenian Kingdom · Armenian
Medieval Armenian capital (961–1045) at peak 100,000 inhabitants, Bagratuni palaces, Cathedral of Ani (1001), Tigran Honents church with frescoes, double city walls.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Banesh (Persian: بانش) is a village in Banesh Rural District of Banesh District, Beyza County, Fars province, Iran, serving as capital of both the district and the rural district. The village is 60 km north of Shiraz.
🇱🇾 Libya · Fortress
Roman Tripolitania (2nd–7th c. CE) · Roman (Tripolitanian Lim.
Tarhouna centenarium fort (60×40 m) controlling olive terraces.
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Lillebonne (French pronunciation: [lilbɔn]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in Northern France. It lies 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north of the Seine and 24 miles (39 km) east of Le Havre.
Belarus · Temple complex
Byaroza monastery refers to the ruins of the former Carthusian baroque Catholic Monastery of the Holy Cross, constructed in the seventeenth century in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and today situated in Belarus.
🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Claimed 7500 BCE (dated wood not architecture) · Unknown claimed
2001 NIOT sonar detection of putative paleo-river channel structures and rectangular blocks at 20–40 m depth, announced as 9,000-year city; follow-up coring disputed.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Hellenistic to Roman · Greek/Hippocratic
Asclepieion of Kos in Dodecanese, Kos, Greece is a Hellenistic to Roman temple complex attributed to Greek/Hippocratic culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Temple complex
Finchale Priory ( FING-kəl), sometimes referred to as Finchale Abbey, was a 13th-century Benedictine priory. The remains are sited by the River Wear, four miles from Durham, England. It is a Grade I listed building.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Greek / Roman · Greek (Cyrenean)
Agrarian interior capital of Pentapolis founded 560 BCE by Cyrene exiles, mother of Ptolemais port. Agora terrace, Amun temple, theatre and Hellenistic walls.
