🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Hydraulic works
Aflaj of Al Ain Oasis
Iron Age to present ~1000 BCE–present · Omani/Hafit to UAE bedouin oases
Al Ain 3,000-year aflaj-fed palm oasis irrigating 147,000 palms with time-share water law.
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Archaeological wonder
Jebel Hafit Desert Kites (Al Ain piedmont, UAE–Oman border)
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (Hafit, 3200–2600 BCE) · Hafit (early eastern Arabian pastoral)
14 Hafit piedmont kites (3200–2600 BCE) interlocked with beehive tombs — Al Ain UNESCO landscape.
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Aflaj Al Ain — Ancillary Falaj North (Oman/UAE Border)
Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Hydraulic culture
Aflaj Al Ain — Ancillary Falaj North (Oman/UAE Border) in Al Buraimi, Al Ain, Falaj, Oman is a Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) hydraulic attrib…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Gebel al-Ain
Gebel al-Ain is a plateau in Sudan at the border between the Northern State and North Kordofan.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
Deir Qanoun Ras al-Ain
Deir Qanoun Ras al-Ain (Arabic: دير قانون رأس العين, romanized: Dayr Qānūn Raʾs al-ʿAyn, Lit.
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Aflaj al-Ain Nizwa Branch — Daudi Falaj Highland Channel
Sasanian to Islamic · Omani, Sasanian Persian, Ibadi
Nizwa Daudi mother well 30 m with 8-km tunnel and shari'a sharing basin, UNESCO aflaj highland branch.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Fekheriye (Guzana / Sikani) — Bilingual Statue Terrace
Middle Bronze through Neo-Assyrian (2000–600 BCE) · Hurrian Mitanni → Aramaean Guzana → Neo-Assyrian
Tell Fekheriye (Guzana / Sikani) — Bilingual Statue Terrace is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Hasakah Governorate, Khabur source, Ras al-Ain District, Syria — Aramaean city-state Guzana…
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Buraimi Aflaj System (Oman-UAE Border Oasis)
Iron Age to Modern (Hafit to Islamic) · Hajar oasis (Magan to Islamic)
Cross-border aflaj network (320 m, 24°15′N 55°45′E Buraimi) extending the UNESCO Aflaj Irrigation Systems of Oman (1207, 2006) from Nizwa-Sharqiyah to the Hajar-Buraimi piedmont.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Tell Fekheriye (Washukanni?)
Early Bronze to Mitanni to Neo-Assyrian (Jezirah) · Hurrian Mitanni → Aramaean Sikani → Assyrian
Spring-mound town Sikani (Mitanni to Neo-Assyrian) candidate for Mitanni capital Washukanni (hot debate) — 90 ha lower town + 8 ha citadel mound at main Khabur karst spring (Ras al-Ain).
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Archaeological wonder
Bidaa Bint Saud
Bidaa Bint Saud (Arabic: بِدَع بِنْت سُعُوْد, romanized: Bidaʿ Bint Suʿūd) is an archaeological site in Eastern Region of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the U.A.E., notable for its Hafit Period tombs,…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Ain Sokhna
Al-'Ain al-Sokhna (Arabic: العين السخنة, romanized: al-ʿAyn as-Sukhna Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [elˈʕeːn esˈsoxnæ], "the Hot Spring") is a town in the Suez Governorate, lying on the western…
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Archaeological wonder
Sheikh Zayed Palace Museum
Museum in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emireates
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell el-Fekheriye (Sikkan / Washukanni?)
Middle Bronze to neo-Assyrian (c.2000 BCE–700 BCE), peak Middle Assyrian · Mitanni Washukanni? / Sikkan Assyrian
Spring-resurgent mound with 1.5-m deep Middle Assyrian level and 9th-c. bilingual Old Aramaic–Old Assyrian Hadad statue inscription (stated first to transcribe Akkadian into Aramaic).
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Temple complex
Ain Harcha
Ain Harcha ((Arabic: عين حرشة, romanized: ʿAyn Ḥarshah), also spelled Ain Hircha) is a village situated in the Rashaya District and south of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Temple complex
Ain Aata
Ain Aata (Arabic: عين عطا, romanized: ʿAyn ʿAṭā, also spelled Ain Ata, 'Ain 'Ata or Ayn Aata) is a village and municipality situated southwest of Rashaya, 99 kilometres (62 mi) south-east of Beirut,…
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
Ain W Zain
Ain W Zain also known as Ain Wazein (Arabic: عين و زين, romanized: ʿAyn wa Zayn) is a Lebanese village in the Chouf District in the Mount Lebanon Governorate
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Ain Farah
Ain Farah is an archaeological site in Darfur in western Sudan. It was at one time the capital of the last Tunjur ruler, Shau Dorshid. It comprises large-scale area of stone and brick walls.
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Archaeological wonder
Al Sufouh Archaeological Site
Al Sufouh Archaeological Site at Al Sufouh in Dubai is owned and managed by Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, and consists of extensive but scattered areas of ancient occupation by a population known…
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
Ain Qannas
Ain Qannas or Ein Ganas is an archaeological site located near Al-Murah village in Al-Hasa, Eastern Saudi Arabia. It dates to between the late 6th to early 5th millennium BCE.
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Archaeological wonder
Hili Archaeological Park
Hili Archaeological Park (Arabic: حَدِيْقَة آثَار ٱلْهِيْلِي, romanized: Ḥadīqat Āthar Al-Hīlī) is the location of a Bronze Age site in Al Ain, Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Arslan Tash (Hadatu)
Iron Age Neo-Assyrian · Aramaean Hadatu → Assyrian province
Assyrian provincial Hadatu with 2.5 km walls, 11 lion gates and Phoenician ivory hoard.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Ayn Sukhna — Pharaonic Red Sea Harbour (Wadi al-Jarf / Ayn Sukhna Bay)
Old Kingdom to Middle Kingdom (c.2650 – 1700 BCE) · Old Kingdom Egyptian (Snefru–Khufu–Khafra)
Old Kingdom world's oldest harbour 2650 BCE — paired Ayn Sukhna jetty 0.2–1 m submerged and Wadi al-Jarf galleries with Khufu boat caches.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Ayn Sukhna — Southern Old Kingdom Harbour (Galala South Gallery)
Old Kingdom (2650–2200 BCE) · Old Kingdom Egyptian
Southern Pharaonic harbour of Ayn Sukhna — 75 m jetty at –1.5 m and 10 gallery caves with Khufu jars.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Old Town of Ghadames
Roman to Modern (19 BCE–present; medieval ksar 7th c CE onward) · Garamantine / Berber Ibadi / Arab / Ottoman
UNESCO saharan ksar Ghadames — whitewashed roof-terrace oasis fed by Ain Al Faras.