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🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Adullam-France Park (Hebrew: פארק עדולם-צרפת), also known as Parc de France-Adoulam, is a sprawling park of 50,000 dunams (50 km2; 19 sq mi)(ca.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Late Middle Kingdom (13th Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian
Unfinished Southern South Saqqara pyramid 100 m south of Khendjer — late 13th-Dynasty 52–60 m mudbrick trench c.1730 BCE, abandoned without burial chamber.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
The archaeological site of Herxheim, located in the municipality of Herxheim in southwest Germany, was a ritual center and a mass grave formed by people of the Linear Pottery culture (LBK) in…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Hydraulic works
Early Modern on Iron Age antecedent (Achaemenid wad?) · Baloch / Brahui oasis with Afghan karez diffusion
Balochistan karez (fog-qanat) field (1,680 m, 30°12′N 67°03′E 30.20,67.05) in Pishin Lora valley between Khwaja Amran and Takht-i-Sulaiman ranges; twin karez Tara (1.8 km) and Burj (2.3 km) with…
🇭🇺 Hungary · Archaeological wonder
Aquincum Civil Amphitheatre is an ancient structure in Budapest, Hungary, the lesser of two located in Obuda. The other is the Aquincum Military Amphitheatre. It was built between 250 AD and 300 AD.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Roman (647 BCE – 300 CE) · Milesian Greek / Scythian
Southern Black Sea harbour of Olbia Pontica below acropolis — 140 m curved mole at –1.8 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
The Berenice pet cemetery is a pet cemetery in Berenike, Egypt, dating from the 1st–2nd century CE. It contains the remains of more than 580 individual animals including cats, dogs, and monkeys.
🇴🇲 Oman · Archaeological wonder
Izki (Arabic: إِزْكِي) is a town in the Ad Dakhiliyah region of northeastern Oman. It is located at c. 544 m (1,785 ft) altitude, and has a population of 35,173 (2003 census).
🇨🇱 Chile · Rock art
Archaic to Formative (4000 BCE – 500 CE) · Taltal-Chango maritime foragers (Caleta Huelén) of coastal Atacama
Chilean coastal boulders 2,500 balsa-whale fishing petroglyphs 4000 BCE–500 CE, earliest American mariners.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder
The Dikika is an area of the Afar Region of Ethiopia. A hominin fossil named Selam, a specimen of the Australopithecus afarensis species, was found in this area.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate Tarapaca phase · Tarapaca and Arica caravan cultures
120+ Huara pampa geoglyphs (800-1400 CE) featuring unique 5-m footprint effigies on salar silt.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Temple complex
Aksumite to Zagwe (6th c–12th c; core 6th c Nine Saints) · Ethiopian Orthodox (Aksumite Christian) monastic
Amba-top monastery accessible only by 15 m leather rope, founded 6th c by Nine Saint Aregawi on precipice with Aksumite wood-monkey-head church.
🇧🇿 Belize · Ancient city
Cerros is an Eastern Lowland Maya archaeological site in northern Belize that functioned from the Late Preclassic to the Postclassic period.
🇺🇸 United States · Tomb
The Indianapolis Catacombs are approximately 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2) of underground passageways on the northeast corner of Market and Delaware streets in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Iron Age I–III (1500–600 BCE) · Iron Age Urmia
Iron Age I–III (1500–600 BCE) tell of Iron Age Urmia in West Azerbaijan, Lake Urmia SE (c.1300 BCE).
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Upper Palaeolithic (35000–12000 BP) · Upper Palaeolithic
Klasies River Cave 1A Howiesons Poort Layer in Eastern Cape, Klasies River, South Africa is a Upper Palaeolithic (35000–12000 BP) cave attributed to Upper Palaeolithic.
🇻🇪 Venezuela · Lost civilisation
Holocene oolitic pearl bank shoal (14th c. Spanish fishery) onto Churchward 1926 Mu continent myth Holocene reef + modern pseudo-projected · Natural pearl oolitic shoal terraced by 1543 hurricane storm + Mu/Lemuria continental myth (Churchward 1926)
Churchward Mu Lemuria fantasy on Cubagua pearl bank — oolitic shoal 3 m terraced by storm claimed as Mu motherland tablet terrace off Nueva Cádiz ruins.
🇩🇪 Germany · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
Rungholt Submerged Wadden Church Foundations in Schleswig-Holstein, Rungholt, Germany is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.
🇷🇴 Romania · Archaeological wonder
Isaccea (Romanian: [iˈsak.tʃe̯a]) is a small town in Tulcea County, in Northern Dobruja, Romania, on the right bank of the Danube, 35 km north-west of Tulcea.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Archaeological wonder
The Magura Cave (Bulgarian: пещера Магура) is located in north-western Bulgaria close to the village of Rabisha, 25 km (16 mi) from the town of Belogradchik in Vidin Province.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient village
Mezhyrich (Ukrainian: Межиріч, also referred to as Mezhirich) is a village (selo) in central Ukraine.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Temple complex
Mohra Muradu (Urdu: موہرا مرادو) is the place of an ancient Buddhist stupa and monastery near the ruins of Taxila, in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Tasmola (Early Saka) · Northern Tasmola network
Northern Tasmola horseshoe kurgan 55 km south of Astana: 42-m mound with 18-m mustache avenue to solstice.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic (Lysimachus to Seleucid) · Hellenistic Macedonian-Anatolian
29-m Diadochi mausoleum 14 km NE Ephesus for Lysimachus/Antiochus II with 28 columns and griffin coffers, 301–246 BCE.
