🇱🇧 Lebanon · Fortress
Anfeh
Anfeh (Arabic: أنفة), also spelled Enfe, Enfeh or Anfe, is a resort town in the Koura District of the North Governorate of Lebanon.
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🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Iron Age IIA · Judahite / Early Israel
Khirbet Qeiyafa Shaaraim at Judean Lowlands, Israel is a Iron Age IIA ancient city of the Judahite / Early Israel tradition, built c. 1020 BCE for two-gated casemate city shaaraim.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Fortress
Anfeh (Arabic: أنفة), also spelled Enfe, Enfeh or Anfe, is a resort town in the Koura District of the North Governorate of Lebanon.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Cumbrian Neolithic
Castlerigg Stone Circle Keswick at Cumbria, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic megalithic of the Cumbrian Neolithic tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for oval stone circle 38 stones.
🇮🇱 Israel · Cave
The Cave of Letters (Hebrew: מערת האיגרות, romanized: Marat Ha-Igerot) is a refuge cave in Nahal Hever in the Judaean Desert where letters and fragments of papyri from the Roman Empire period were…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Clement Town is a cantonment town in Dehradun, Dehradun district, in the state of Uttarakhand, India. Clement Town is seven kilometres (4.3 mi) from the clock tower in main city of Dehradun.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic · Orkney Neolithic
Quoyness Chambered Cairn Sanday at Orkney, United Kingdom is a Neolithic megalithic of the Orkney Neolithic tradition, built c. 2900 BCE for maes howe type 20 m 9 m passage.
Belarus · Temple complex
Brest Fortress formerly known as Brest-Litovsk Fortress, is a 19th-century fortress in Brest, Belarus.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Kadia Dungar Caves are located at Kadia Dungar near Zazpor village of Zagadiya Taluka of in Bharuch district of the Indian state of Gujarat.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Inti Watana, Intiwatana (Quechua, hispanicized spelling Intihuatana) or Pumaqucha (Quechua puma cougar, puma, qucha lake, "puma lake", hispanicized spellings Pomaccocha, Pomacocha, Pumacocha) is an…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Late Urartian Kingdom (early 7th century BCE) · Urartian (Biainili) late imperial
Rusa II's earthquake-collapsed Haldi temple-fortress with 4,000 bronze votives frozen mid-repair.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Fortress
Umayyad dynasty
The desert castles or qasrs, often called Umayyad desert castles, are a series of fortified palaces or castles scattered over the semi-arid regions of north-eastern Jordan, Syria, Israel and the West…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Kesaria, also known as Kesariya, is a town in the district of East Champaran, in the Indian state of Bihar. It is the site of a stupa built by the Mauryan king Ashoka.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hellenistic to medieval (c.400 BCE–1200 CE) · Olbian priest-kings → Isaurian pirates → Roman → Byzantine
Sinkhole-city Kanytelis: 60 m chasm with rim temples, three basilicas and tower-tomb skyline.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Smallest of Semna cluster, 1 km south of Semna West on desert plateau, square 70 m fort built by Senusret III controlling desert track that bypassed cataract, linked to Semna West by 500 m desert…
Republic of Abkhazia · Archaeological wonder
Anakopia Fortress (Georgian: ანაკოფია, romanized: anak'opia) is an ancient military citadel in New Athos (as it is currently known) in the disputed Abkhazia, Georgia located some 22 km (14 miles) by…
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
The Ashland Dam and Spillway is a historic site at the north end of Ashland Reservoir in Ashland State Park in Ashland, Massachusetts.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Dholavira — North Gate West Flanking Tower (Kutch) in Gujarat, Kutch, Dholavira, India is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attribut…
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Temple complex
Kimpulan (Javanese: ꦕꦤ꧀ꦝꦶꦏꦶꦩ꧀ꦥꦸꦭꦤ꧀, romanized: Candhi Kimpulan; also known as Pustakasala temple) is a 9th to 10th century Hindu temple located in the area of Islamic University of Indonesia (UII)…
🇴🇲 Oman · Archaeological wonder
The Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn (Arabic: ٱلْمَوَاقِع ٱلْأَثَرِيَّة فِيْ بَات وَٱلْخُطْم وَٱلْعَيْن, romanized: Al-Mawāqiʿ al-Athariyyah fī Bāt wal-Khuṭm wal-ʿAyn) are a group of…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Bhattiprolu is a village in Bapatla district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the headquarters of Bhattiprolu mandal in Repalle revenue division.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Anjar (meaning "unresolved or running river"; Arabic: عنجر / ALA-LC: ‘Anjar), also known as Hawsh Mousa (Arabic: حوش موسى / Ḥawsh Mūsá), is a town of Lebanon, near the Syrian border, located in the…
🇯🇵 Japan · Temple complex
Chōkoku-ji (長谷寺) is a Buddhist temple located in the Iiyama neighborhood of the city of Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
North Macedonia · Archaeological wonder
Golem Grad (Macedonian: Голем Град), meaning Big City/Town, also known as Snake Island or Pelican Island, is an island in North Macedonia. The island covers an area of more than 20 hectares.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Archaeological wonder
Khirbet Tibnah (also Tibneh) is a tell (archaeological mound) located in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of the West Bank, between the villages Deir Nidham and Nabi Salih.
