🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Faras Cathedral
Faras Cathedral was a cathedral in the Lower Nubian city of Faras. It was the original seat of the Diocese of Faras.
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🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Amol (Persian: آمل [ɒˈmol]; ) is a city in the Central District of Amol County, Mazandaran province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Faras Cathedral was a cathedral in the Lower Nubian city of Faras. It was the original seat of the Diocese of Faras.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1700 BCE) · Old Kingdom Egyptian (Memphite)
Southern Pharaonic harbour of Ayn Sukhna — gallery caves and mole at 0.5–2.5 m in Gulf of Suez south bay.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Archaeological wonder
Aigyr-Zhal 2 is a historical site in Naryn city on the territory of University of Central Asia (UCA), Kyrgyzstan. It is a part of a bigger and more complex site Aigyr-Zhal.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Temple complex
The Ganting Grand Mosque (Indonesian: Masjid Raya Ganting; also written and pronounced Gantiang in Minang) is a Sunni mosque located in Ganting, Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia.
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
The Bandiagara Escarpment (Arabic: منحدرات باندياغارا الصخرية, French: falaise de Bandiagara) is a sandstone cliff in the Dogon country of Mali.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
The Khas Mahal served as the Mughal emperor's private residence in Old Delhi. The structure is located inside the Red Fort, which is a large defensive and governmental complex located inside the city.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
The Chabola de la Hechicera (Spanish for 'The Witch's Hut', Basque: Sorginaren Txabola) is a dolmen in Elvillar, Álava in the Basque Country of Spain.
🇨🇦 Canada · Geoglyph
Battalion Park is a geoglyph site in southwest Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is on Signal Hill, overlooking the Tsuu T'ina Nation (formerly Sarcee Nation), as well as lands formerly known as Camp…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Corycus (Ancient Greek: Κώρυκος, romanized: Korykos) was a Greek port city in ancient Lycia. The location of the city has not been determined with certainty.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Iron Age, Early to Middle La Tene 456-395 BCE · Iron Age La Tene Lincolnshire
456/395 BCE Iron Age timber causeway (175 m) at Fiskerton, Witham Valley with 11 votive swords and logboats.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Hermopolis (Greek: Ἑρμοῦ πόλις), also known as Hermopolis Mikra (City of Hermes/Thoth Small; Latin: Hermopolis Parva), was the Greek name for two cities in ancient Egypt, both in the Nile Delta, and…
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
The château de Neuilly is a former château in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Its estate covered a vast 170-hectare park called "parc de Neuilly" which comprised all of Neuilly that is today to be found…
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Sassanian to Ya'rubi (500–1650 continuous) · Rustaq Batinah tribe communities
Batinah piedmont aflaj swarm: 18 lines (1.2-8 km) feeding Rustaq fortress oasis on Hajar bajada.
🇨🇿 Czech Republic · Archaeological wonder
The Kolowrat Palace (Czech: Kolowratský palác) is a Baroque complex of two Gothic buildings, located at Ovocný trh 4 a 6 in the Old Town part of the Prague 1 district in Prague, Czech Republic.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
Hadath (Arabic: الحدت) is a municipality in the Baabda District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate in Lebanon.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Chaitya Bhoomi, also written as Chaityabhoomi (IAST: Caityabhūmī, Officially: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Chaityabhoomi Memorial) is a Buddhist chaitya and the cremation place of B. R.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Late Bronze Age (Building 2) + Mesolithic footprint shelf · Severn estuarine saltmarsh dwellers (Later Bronze)
Second Severn intertidal brush-hurdle footway 42 m southeast of Goldcliff Iron Age building.
🇸🇰 Slovakia · Cave
Jasov Cave (Slovak: Jasovská jaskyňa, and Hungarian: Jászói barlang) is a speleothem limestone cave and archaeological site in the Slovak Karst in Slovakia.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Anglo-Saxon to Late Medieval (630 – 1350 CE) · Anglo-Saxon / East Anglian / Norman English
England's great medieval port lost to 700 years of North Sea erosion — churches, friary and quay now mapped 300–900 m offshore on Dunwich Bank.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Khirbet en-Nahas, also spelled Khirbat en-Nahas, is one of the largest copper mining and smelting sites of the ancient world, built around 3,000 years ago.
🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex
The Guang Ming temple (Chinese: 光明寺; pinyin: Guāngmíng Sì; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kong-bîng-sī; lit. 'Bright Light Temple') in Orlando, Florida, United States is the largest Buddhist temple in Central Florida.
🇵🇱 Poland · Earthwork
Early Middle Ages (8th c. tribal; Piast 960–1039) · Piast Poland (Mieszko I, Bolesław I)
Ostrów Lednicki – Piast Stronghold on Lake Lednica in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Gniezno County, Lednica lake island near Lednogóra, Poland is a Early Middle Ages (8th c.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Canyon de Chelly National Monument ( də-SHAY) was established on April 1, 1931, as a unit of the National Park Service.
