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Xpuhil
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Campeche)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2017
Xpuhil submitted by davidmorgan on 9th Feb 2009. Structure I - also known as the Building of the Three Towers. It constitutes an atypical example of the Rio Bec style due to the presence of the third, or central, tower. It has a maximum height of 18m and its centre line runs more than 53m along a perfect north-south alignment.
From the site information board. (It looks a few degrees off on Google Earth).
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Wupatki Pueblo
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes
Wupatki Pueblo submitted by davidmorgan on 26th May 2009. Wupatki Pueblo. Photo by JW.
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Uxmal
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Yucatan)
Visited: Would like to visit
Uxmal submitted by davidmorgan on 22nd Feb 2007. The Adivino or Pyramid of the Magician at Uxmal.
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Tulum
Date Added: 31st Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Quintana Roo)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2017
Tulum submitted by davidmorgan on 28th May 2007. The Temple of the Frescoes.
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Theatre of Dionysus
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece
Visited: Yes
Theatre of Dionysus submitted by AlexHunger on 20th Aug 2006. Ancient theatre just below the Acropolis in Athens.
There are neolithic caves in the cliff-side just above.
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Taos Pueblo
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes
Taos Pueblo submitted by jeffrep on 23rd Jan 2016. Taos Pueblo's most prominent architectural feature is a multi-storied residential complex of reddish-brown adobe. New Mexico. U.S. Southwest.
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Sounion Temple of Poseidon
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes
Sounion Temple of Poseidon submitted by AlexHunger on 23rd Aug 2006. 5th century BCE Temple of Poseidon on the the southernmost point of Attica surounded by the Aegean on 3 sides.
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Sounion Temple of Athena
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes
Sounion Temple of Athena submitted by AlexHunger on 23rd Aug 2006. Foundations of destroyed 5th century BCE Temple of Athena, near Temple of Poseidon.
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Serpent Mound, Ohio
Date Added: 29th Jul 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 1998
Serpent Mound, Ohio submitted by eforrest25 on 31st Aug 2015. Taken from the viewing platform toward the tail of the snake. It isn't possible to take the entire length of the snake in a photo. One change from earlier photos are the markers showing lunar and solar alignments.
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Sakkara Pyramid
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1978
Sakkara Pyramid submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Mar 2006. The world's first large stone structure built under Pharao Djoser founder of the 3rd Dynasty of the Old Kingdom.
Under the Architect Imhotep, the original small mastaba was expanded in all directions to a height of 62 Meters, a length of 123 Meters and a width of 107 Meters. The stone blocks are much smaller than those of the later pyramids.
The pyramid had a casing eventually, though this is now lost.
There are numerous passages under the pyramids where a mummified leg bone of Djoser was ...
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Prambanan
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Indonesia
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1988
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Place de la Concorde Obelisk
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Ile-de-France:Paris (75))
Visited: Yes
Place de la Concorde Obelisk submitted by AlexHunger on 8th Jul 2005. Place de la Concorde Obelisk
Taken from Egypt and placed in the center of Paris. It originaly stood in front of the temple of Luxor, where its twin remains. Similar to Cleopatra's needle in London, there are more captured obelisks of this kind in Central Park New York or Rome etc. It received a Gold cap on the Pyramidon tip for the year 2000.
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Petra, Nabataean Town
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Jordan
Visited: Yes
Petra, Nabataean Town submitted by neolithique02 on 11th Apr 2012. The Deir.
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Parthenon
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes
Parthenon submitted by Antonios on 30th Jul 2008. Site in Attica/Central Greece: Parthenon
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Palenque
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Chiapas)
Visited: Would like to visit
Palenque submitted by LivingRocks on 14th Apr 2007. The Temple of the Sun.
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Newspaper Rock State Park
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes
Newspaper Rock State Park submitted by baz on 5th Jun 2011. Newspaper Rock
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Newgrange Stone Circle
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Meath)
Visited: Yes
Newgrange Stone Circle submitted by AlexHunger on 21st Oct 2004. Remains of the Newgrange stone circle at the south of the Cairn.
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Newgrange
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Meath)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2009
Newgrange submitted by McDeil on 8th Jan 2002. Entry at Newgrange showing massive carved stone which once blocked the entry. Not shown are the tourists who in Summer would queue for up to an hour to be taken through the tomb!
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National Museum Cardiff
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Museum
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Would like to visit
British Museum submitted by h_fenton on 29th Mar 2008. The Mold Cape (Bronze Age), in the British Museum.
The Mold Gold Cape found by workmen quarrying for stone in a burial mound in Mold, Flintshire, North Wales in 1833. In the centre of the mound there was a stone lined cist containing an inhumation burial and the cape was found on the shoulders of the skeleton, pieces of sheet bronze were also recovered which may have formed a backing to the gold cape. Additionally in the grave were numerous amber beads, some estimates put the number of bea...
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Muyil
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Quintana Roo)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2016
Muyil submitted by karolus on 26th Jan 2018. Muyil main pyramid
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