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🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 585 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 779 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 858 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Late Period to Byzantine (6th c BCE – 8th c CE) · Egyptian / Greek
Legendary port of entry to Egypt before Alexandria, submerged after earthquake/liquefaction 6th–8th century CE, rediscovered 2000 by Franck Goddio (IEASM) with stele of Nectanebo I, temples of…
🇮🇷 Iran · Cave
Ghar-e-Pariyan is a cave near Isfahan. It is situated at an altitude of 2967 m above sea level. Its entrance measures approximately 1.6 x 1.2 meters. It is located in Iran, not Iraq.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 51 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Pre-Harappan to Late Harappan (2800–1500 BCE) · Harappan
Banawali excavated by Bisht 1973–, with barracks and seal of unicorn.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Harappan · Harappan
Harappan megalithic at Aomori.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Temple complex
Al-Zaqura Palace (Arabic: قصر الزقورة) is an Iraqi government building situated in the Green Zone in the capital Baghdad.
🇳🇵 Nepal · Temple complex
The Bhimsen Mandir or Bhimsen Temple is an 18th-century Hindu temple located in Nalamukh, Pokhara, Nepal. Bhimsen is the patron deity of people of Newari ethnicity.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Ancient city
According to inscription on the stele of Sdok Kok Thom, Indrapura (Khmer: ឥន្ទ្របុរៈ) or Amarendrapura (Khmer: អមរិន្ទ្របុរៈ) was the first capital of Jayavarman II reign about 781, before the…
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Bronze Age to Early Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Turkic
South-facing Yaloman cliff 5 km west of Kalbak-Tash main, with Andronovo two-spoked chariots and 12 Turkic tamga slabs overlaying earlier elk.
🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
The Catacombs of San Valentino (Italian: Catacombe di San Valentino) is one of the catacombs of Rome (Italy), placed at the 2nd mile of the via Flaminia, now in Viale Maresciallo Pilsudski, in the…
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
Kfar Abida_Fadous (Arabic كفرعبيدا _فدعوس), sometimes spelled Kfar Aabida_Fadaous or Kfaraabida_Fad'ous, is a village located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of Batroun in the Batroun District of the…
🇵🇪 Peru · Tomb
The Catacombs of Lima (Spanish: Catacumbas de Lima) are underground ossuaries in the historic centre of Lima, Peru.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Ghar el-Melh (Arabic: غارالملح, Ghar al-Milh, "Salt Grotto"), the classical Rusucmona and Castra Delia and colonial Porto Farina, is a town and former port on the southern side of Cape Farina in…
🇬🇧 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…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hydraulic works
The Caledonian Canal connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William in Scotland.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (4500–3000 BCE) Lusit-Protugal menhir row · Setúbal Neolithic Quinta alignment
Quinta do Anjo row.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock shelter
Late Pleistocene
The Abrigo de la Quebrada is an archaeological site in the municipality of Chelva, in the Spanish Province of Valencia, ca. 65 km northwest of the city of Valencia.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Guellayhuasin (possibly from Quechua q'illay iron, wasi house) is an archaeological site in Peru.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Geoglyph
Craigmillar (from Gaelic Creag a' Mhaol Àird, "rock of the bare summit") is an area of Edinburgh, Scotland, about 3 miles (4.8 km) south east of the city centre, with Duddingston to the north and…
🇯🇵 Japan · Temple complex
Joraku-ji (Joraku Temple) (Japanese: 常楽寺) is a Koyasan Shingon temple in Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. Temple # 14 on the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage.
