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🇮🇷 Iran · Fortress

Bastam — Urartian Fortress

Urartian (685–612 BCE Rusa II) · Urartian Kingdom

Bastam — Urartian Fortress in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran is a Urartian (685–612 BCE Rusa II) fortress attributed to Urartian Kingdom.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Temple complex

Fishbourne Roman Palace

Roman (75–270 CE) · Romano-British (Atrebates)

Fishbourne Roman Palace in West Sussex, South Coast, United Kingdom is a Roman (75–270 CE) temple complex attributed to Romano-British (Atrebates) culture.

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city

Apollonos Hydreium

Apollonos Hydreium (Plin. vi. 26; It. Anton.) or Apollinopolis or Apollonopolis (Greek: Ἀπόλλωνος πόλις), was an ancient city of Egypt that stood upon the high road from Coptos, in the Thebaid, to…

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🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city

Aidhab — Red Sea Desert Port

Fatimid to Mamluk (10th–15th c CE) · Beja–Islamic port

Aidhab — Red Sea Desert Port in Red Sea State, Sudan is a Fatimid to Mamluk (10th–15th c CE) ancient-city attributed to Beja–Islamic port.

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Dominican Republic · Rock art

Las Caritas

Las Caritas ("The faces") is a collection of Indigenous inscriptions in a rock formation looking out over Lake Enriquillo in the Dominican Republic.

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🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Poverty Point (Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point)

Late Archaic 1700–1100 BCE (peak 1500–1200 BCE) · Poverty Point culture

Late Archaic earthwork complex (1700–1100 BCE) with six concentric C-shaped ridges (1.2 km outer diameter) and six mounds, including 22 m-high Mound A – one of largest Archaic earthworks in North…

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🇨🇱 Chile · Ancient city

Cueva Fell

Cueva Fell or Fell's Cave is a natural cave and archaeological site in southern Patagonia. Cueva Fell is in proximity to the Pali Aike Crater, another significant archaeological site.

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🇬🇷 Greece · Cave

Klisoura Cave 1

Middle Palaeolithic to Mesolithic · Mousterian / Aurignacian / Epigravettian

Collapsed karstic cave and rockshelter in the Klisoura Gorge, Argolis, with 5 m deep trench divided into 14 stratigraphic units covering Middle Palaeolithic to Mesolithic (40,000–9,000 BP).

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🇫🇷 France · Megalith

Cour-Maugis sur Huisne

Cour-Maugis sur Huisne (French pronunciation: [kuʁ moʒi syʁ ɥin]) is a commune in the department of Orne, northwestern France.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Quoyness Chambered Cairn Sanday

Neolithic (c.2900 BCE) · Maes Howe tradition

Finest Maes Howe-type cairn on Sanday, excavated 1867, with six side chambers off central cell and cross-shaped plan, near beach dunes.

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🇺🇸 United States · Mound

Lewiston Mound

Lewiston Mound is a prehistoric burial mound built by the indigenous peoples of the Hopewell tradition. It is located on the grounds of the Earl W.

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🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder

Kefraya (Arabic: كفريا / ALA-LC: Kifrayā) is a village in the Western Beqaa District of the Beqaa Governorate in the Republic of Lebanon, approximately 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) northwest of Joub Jannine.

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🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid

La Campana — Colima Capital

Classic (100–500 CE) · Capacha / Colima

La Campana — Colima Capital in Colima, Mexico is a Classic (100–500 CE) pyramid attributed to Capacha / Colima.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork

Windmill Hill Causewayed Camp Wiltshire

Neolithic (3650–3000 BCE) · Early Neolithic / Peterborough

Avebury's northern causewayed camp excavated by Keiller 1925–29, 3650 BCE basal layer with Ebbsfleet ceramics.

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🇲🇱 Mali · Temple complex

Great Mosque of Niono

The Great Mosque of Niono (French: Grande Mosquée du Vendredi de Niono) is an architecturally significant mosque located in the city of Niono, in the Ségou Region of southern Mali.

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🇬🇷 Greece · Cave

Kleidi Cave

Upper Palaeolithic (Epigravettian) · Epigravettian

Epigravettian rock shelter in the Voidomatis Gorge, Konitsa, excavated 1983–1990 revealing Late Glacial hunter-gatherer occupations (16,000–10,000 BP) with microliths, faunal remains and early art…

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith