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World Heritage places tagged “necropolis”

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🇵🇪Peru

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex

Notion Necropolis-Agora — Apollo Claros Necropolis Grid

Archaic to Roman (700 BCE – 300 CE) · Aeolian to Ionian Notians

Necropolis-agora with painted tombs and Apollo sacred way 600 m from temple.

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🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Temple complex

Shāh-i-Zinda Necropolis

Qarakhanid to Timurid 11th–15th century CE · Qarakhanid / Timurid Islamic

Eleven medieval mausolea (11th–15th c) lining narrow alley on Afrasiyab tell above Samarkand, enshrining Kusam ibn Abbas (cousin of Prophet) and Timurid royal women and generals.