🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Autokane
Autokane (Ancient Greek: Αὐτοκάνη) or Autokana (Αὐτοκάνα) was an ancient Greek city of Aeolis located on a mountain of the same name in Asia Minor.
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🇮🇩 Indonesia · Temple complex
Barong temple (Indonesian: Candi Barong; Javanese: ꦕꦤ꧀ꦝꦶꦧꦫꦺꦴꦁ, romanized: Candhi Barong) is a 9th-century Hindu candi (temple) located approximately 800 meters east-southeast from Ratu Boko compound.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Autokane (Ancient Greek: Αὐτοκάνη) or Autokana (Αὐτοκάνα) was an ancient Greek city of Aeolis located on a mountain of the same name in Asia Minor.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Archaeological wonder
Chalcolithic to Late Antiquity (5000 BCE – 400 CE; rock city peak 1500–500 BCE) · Thracian (Bessi tribe) to Roman and Byzantine
Rocky massif on the Perperek gold–bearing ridge where Thracians carved a palace-temple complex into the living rock: hall of prophecies claimed as the sanctuary of Dionysus visited by Alexander…
🇳🇴 Norway · Megalith
Roman Iron Age–Medieval (200–1400 CE) · Norwegian Iron Age / Viking — Sea-kings of Karmsund
Oldest Norwegian royal seat at the narrow Karmsund strait, where saga sources place Harald Fairhair's main manor.
🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex
The Gordon Strong Automobile Objective was a proposed planetarium, restaurant, and scenic overlook designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the top of Sugarloaf Mountain in Maryland.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
Al-Bireh, El Bire, Biré, El Bireh (Levantine Arabic: البيرة, romanized: el-Bīrreh) or Birra (at the time of the Crusades) is a town in the Rashaya District, south-eastern portion of the Bekaa…
🇳🇴 Norway · Temple complex
For the current cathedral in Hamar, see Hamar cathedral. Hamar Cathedral (Domkirkeruinene på Hamar) are the ruins of the medieval era Hamar Cathedral in Hamar, Norway Hamar Cathedral was the see of…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Gala Abu Ahmed is a fortress ruin in lower Wadi Howar, northern Sudan. The 120 by 180 metres (390 ft × 590 ft) facility is located 110 kilometres (68 mi) west of the Nile.
🇪🇸 Spain · Fortress
The Castle of San Servando is a medieval castle in Toledo, Spain, near the Tagus River. It was begun as a monastery, occupied first by monks and later by the Knights Templar.
🇩🇪 Germany · Hydraulic works
The Henrichenburg boat lift facilitates a change in elevation of the Dortmund-Ems-Kanal in Waltrop-Oberwiese.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Cuchi Machay (possibly from in the Quechua spelling Khuchi Mach'ay or Khuchimach'ay, khuchi pig, mach'ay cave, "pig cave") is an archaeological site with rock paintings in Peru.
🇸🇴 Somalia · Ancient city
Damo (Somali: Daamo) is a small coastal settlement in Alula District, Bari region,Puntland, northeastern Somalia, situated approximately 5 km west of Cape Guardafui and facing the Guardafui Channel.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Enfidha (or Dar-el-Bey, Arabic: دار البي ) is a place in north-eastern Tunisia with a population of approximately 10,000. It is visited by tourists on their way to Takrouna.
🇷🇺 Russia · Temple complex
The Chudov Monastery (Russian: Чу́дов монасты́рь, romanized: Chúdov monastýr'; more formally known as Alexius’ Archangel Michael Monastery) was founded in the Moscow Kremlin in 1358 by Metropolitan…
🇦🇺 Australia · Temple complex
Chung Tian Temple (Chinese: 中天寺; pinyin: Zhōng tiān sì; lit. 'Middle Heaven Temple') is a Chan Buddhist temple located at 1034 Underwood Road, Priestdale, Queensland, Australia.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Early Bronze to Neo-Babylonian (c.3000–539 BCE) · Sumerian → Akkadian → OB → Kassite → NB
Dilbat (Tell al-Deylam, ancient Dulbat) is a 30-ha Sumerian town 30 km south of Babylon on the Arahtu canal, centre of the grain-goddess Uraš and later Nabu of...
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
The Kondhana Caves are located in the small village of Kondhane, 33 km (21 mi) north of Lonavala and 16 km (9.9 mi) northwest of Karla Caves. This cave group has 16 Buddhist caves.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Horvat ʽAnim (Hebrew: חורבת ענים) or Khirbet Ghuwein al-Tahta (Arabic: خربة غويين التحتا, “Lower Ghuwein”) is a ruined hamlet and archaeological locality in the southern fringes of the Hebron Hills,…
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Delhi Sarai Rohilla (station code: DEE) is a railway station on the Indian Railways network, located 4 kilometres east of the Delhi Junction railway station.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Aceramic Neolithic to Early Pottery Neolithic · Central/West Anatolian Neolithic
Aceramic Neolithic lakeside tell (c.7500–6500 BCE) on terrace of Lake Suğla near Karadağ, excavated 1965–71 by Jacques Bordaz.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
The Chausath Yogini Temple, Mitaoli, also known as Ekattarso Mahadeva Temple, is an 11th-century temple in Morena district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Chalcolithic Trypillia BI (4100–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia BI (Tomashivka central)
Volodymyrivka — Trypillia BI mega-site (c.4100–3800 BCE, 100 ha, 800 houses) on Synyukha River, Kirovohrad, SBDI central cluster between Nebelivka and Dobrovody.
🇸🇾 Syria · Archaeological wonder
Fafertin (Arabic: فافرتين; Kurdish: Fafirtîn) is a village in northwestern Syria, located in the Jebel Sem'an region of the Dead Cities.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Archaeological wonder
Gokul Medh is an archaeological site in Bangladesh. It is an excavated mound in the village of Gokul in Bogra Sadar Upazila, Bogra, about 2 km southwest of Mahasthangarh.
