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4 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Roman Imperial (18 CE–4th c. CE; peak Hadrianic 130–200 CE) · Roman
Mons Porphyrites (Jabal Abu Duhhan) is the world's only imperial porphyry source, 950 m Red Sea mountain, producing purple leucocratic andesine porphyry monolithic columns and sarcophagus of…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Roman Imperial (1st–4th c. CE; peak Trajan–Hadrian 98–138 CE) · Roman (Imperial quarrying)
Mons Claudianus is a remote Eastern Desert granodiorite (quartz-diorite) imperial quarry, 700 m altitude between Nile and Red Sea, source of grey column shafts for Pantheon, Trajan's Forum and Villa…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Roman Imperial (29 BCE–211 CE, active to 4th c) · Roman Imperial
Mons Porphyrites (Gebel Dokhan) is the only imperial porphyry quarry in Roman Empire (29–211 CE) producing purple porphyry for Diocletian and Hadrian pillars, sarcophagi and Pantheon.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Ancient city
Gondarine (1632–1864 CE) · Ethiopian Solomonic / Gondarine
Fasil Ghebbi is the 70,000 m² Royal Enclosure of Gondar, Ethiopia's 17th–18th c imperial capital (1632–1864).
