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🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Kawa, known as Gematon ("Aten is perceived") in ancient Egyptian texts and as Patigga or Patinga during Greco-Roman times, is a town and archaeological site in Sudan, located between the third and…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Archaeological wonder
The Alvastra pile-dwelling (Swedish: Alvastra pålbyggnad or Alvastraboplatsen) is a pile dwelling (also called a stilt house) from ca 3000 BC in Alvastra, Ödeshög Municipality, Östergötland County,…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Temple complex
ISKCON Leicester is a Hare Krishna temple located in central Leicester, in the East Midlands region of England.
🇳🇦 Namibia · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period rock art
Apollo 11 Cave Rock Art Layer 4 Namibia in Karas, Apollo 11 Cave, Namibia is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Multi-period rock art.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Gebel al-Ain is a plateau in Sudan at the border between the Northern State and North Kordofan.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Temple complex
The Badshahi Mosque is a Mughal-era imperial mosque located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It was constructed between 1671 and 1673 by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, opposite to the Lahore Fort in the…
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Bronze Age
Kinneret (Hebrew: כִּנֶּרֶת, romanized: Kīnnereṯ) is the name of an important Bronze and Iron Age city of the ancient Levant situated on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Khirbet Qana (Arabic: خربة قانا), is an archaeological site in the Lower Galilee of Israel. It has remains of a settlement from the Hellenistic period to the Early Arab period.
🇶🇦 Qatar · Archaeological wonder
Al Khor Island (Arabic: جزيرة الخور), also known as Jazirat bin Ghanim or Purple Island, is an island located in the municipality of Al Khor on the northeast coast of Qatar.
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient village
Iron Age (800 BCE-100 CE) · Castro Culture
Castro de Baroña Coastal Annex Terrace — Eastern Outlier in Galicia, A Coruna, Spain is a Iron Age (800 BCE-100 CE) ancient village attributed to Castro Culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Temple complex
Cwmhir Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Cwm Hir), near Llandrindod Wells in Powys, is a Welsh Cistercian monastery founded in 1176 by Cadwallon ap Madog.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Ancient city
Checua is a preceramic open area archaeological site in Nemocón, Cundinamarca, Colombia. The site is located 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north of the town centre.
🇳🇪 Niger · Ancient village
Early to Middle Holocene (7700–2500 BCE) · Kiffian/AA foragers → Tenerian pastoralists
Gobero lakeside cemeteries tracking 5,000 years of Sahara greening and desertification.
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina · Fortress
Blagaj Fortress or Old Town of Blagaj (Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: Stari grad Blagaj, Serbian Cyrillic: Стари Град Благај; pronounced [blaːgaj]), locally known as Stjepan-grad (Стјепан-град), or…
🇰🇷 South Korea · Ancient village
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Gyeongju Cheomseongdae South Stone 12 in Gyeongbuk, Gyeongju, South Korea is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇨🇱 Chile · Ancient village
Late Pleistocene 14,800–13,000 BP (MV-II 14,800 BP; MV-I earlier claim 33,000 BP contested) · Late Paleoindian (pre-Clovis; Monte Verde culture, Austral–Magellanic hunter-gatherers)
Earliest securely dated settlement in Americas (14,800–14,500 BP) – late Pleistocene campsite on paleo-channel terrace in southern Chile with preserved tent floors (3 structures 30 m² total,…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) · Chalcolithic–EBA
Troy Buried Citadel VIh North Bastion in Çanakkale, Hisarlık Troy, Turkey is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) tell attributed to Chalcolithic–EBA.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Archaeological wonder
Inka Raqay (Quechua Inka Inca, raqay ruin, a demolished building; shed, storehouse or dormitory for the laborers of a farm; a generally old building without roof, only with walls) is an…
🇺🇸 United States · Cave
Great Basin Desert Culture (9000 BCE – 500 CE) · Desert Archaic / Fremont
Danger Cave in Utah, United States is a Great Basin Desert Culture (9000 BCE – 500 CE) cave attributed to Desert Archaic / Fremont culture.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Tumulus
Early Medieval (800-1000 CE) · Igbo-Ukwu
Igbo-Ukwu Workshop Mound South Annex — Western Terrace in Anambra, Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria is a Early Medieval (800-1000 CE) tumulus attributed to Igbo-Ukwu.
🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
Fractio Panis (English: Breaking of Bread) is the name given to a fresco in the Greek Chapel (Capella Greca) in the Catacomb of Priscilla, situated on the Via Salaria Nova in Rome.
🇱🇻 Latvia · Ancient city
Middle Ages (1214–16th c. with Iron Age hillfort substratum 5th–12th c.) · Livonian Brothers of Sword / Archbishop of Riga, Livs
Turaida Castle and Livonian Settlement in Vidzeme, Sigulda Municipality, Turaida (formerly Treiden), Latvia is a Middle Ages (1214–16th c.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Late Bronze Go Mun 1100–500 BCE (bridge Dong Dau → Dong Son) · Go Mun (Red River Late Bronze)
Red River Go Mun foundry-burial hamlet (1100–700 BCE) — 300 moulds at Xóm Rên, Phú Thọ.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Early to Late Bronze via Early Iron · Kura-Araxes, Trialeti, Lchashen-Metsamor, Urartian fringe
Lower southeast lava field 1.1 km from crater lake with 380 boulders and vishap cart motifs.
