Archaeological

Phanom Rung Sanctuary

Chaloem Phra Kiat, Buri Ram, Thailand

Phanom Rung is an archaeological Shaiva sanctuary built on an extinct volcano in Buriram....

Philadelphia (Asia Minor)

Alaşehir, Manisa, Turkey

Ancient Philadelphia survives only in fragments — three worn pillars of a Byzantine basilica, a stretch of city wall, an unexcavated theater — scattered through the...

Phimai Sanctuary

Phimai, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand

Phimai Sanctuary is the monumental center of an ancient Khmer city in northeast Thailand....

Phong Nha Cave and Tiên Sư Cốc Tự

Phong Nha, Quảng Trị, Vietnam

According to official park history, Phong Nha Cave and Tiên Sư Cốc Tự join an exact river-cave identity with a living guardian-deity shrine beside its entrance....

Phu Phra Bat Sacred Landscape

Ban Phue, Udon Thani, Thailand

Phu Phrabat is a sacred landscape rather than a single monument. Eroded sandstone shelters, prehistoric paintings, Dvaravati Sīma stones, and continuing Buddhist use...

Phuyupatamarca

Machu Picchu district, Cusco, Peru

Phuyupatamarca sits at roughly 3,600 meters, often wreathed in cloud, its terraced slopes and stone fountains still fed by an underground water system that has functioned...

Pisac Incan Archaeological Complex

Pisac, Cusco, Peru

Pisac sprawls across a mountain ridge at the entrance to the Sacred Valley, its terraces forming an inverted triangle that descends toward the Urubamba River....

Prasat Sa Kamphaeng Yai

Uthumphon Phisai, Si Sa Ket, Thailand

Prasat Sa Kamphaeng Yai is a Khmer-period sanctuary enclosed within the grounds of a present Buddhist temple in Si Sa Ket....

Proto-urban Site of Sarazm

Sarazm / Panjakent, Sughd Region, Tajikistan

Proto-urban Site of Sarazm is a documented archaeological site in Sarazm / Panjakent, Sughd Region, Tajikistan, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....

Pulemelei Mound

Palauli, Savai'i, Palauli, Samoa

Pulemelei is a stepped stone mound roughly 65 by 60 meters at its base, the largest ancient structure known in Polynesia, built by pre-contact Samoan communities and left...

Puma Punku

Part of Tiwanaku Archaeological Site

Tiwanaku, La Paz, Bolivia

Puma Punku is the unfinished masterwork of the Tiwanaku civilization, a 6th-century platform mound in the Bolivian altiplano whose stonework defies easy explanation....

Radimlja Stećak Necropolis

Near Stolac, Near Stolac, Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Radimlja Stećak Necropolis is a documented archaeological site in Near Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, interpreted through ancient ritual and archaeological evidence....

Ravattula Ristimäki

Kaarina, Southwest Finland, Finland

A low hillside above the Aurajoki river in Kaarina holds the stone footprint of Finland's oldest known church, built by the 1170s over a burial ground already a century...

Roman City of Pollentia

Alcúdia, Balearic Islands, Spain

Pollentia is the excavated Roman city on the edge of Alcúdia's old town — a forum, a theatre, and a residential quarter that together form the fullest surviving record of...

Roman Ruins of Milreu

Estoi, Faro, Portugal

At Milreu, a Roman temple to a water deity became a Christian basilica with its own baptismal font, and, tradition holds, later a mosque, before the whole structure...

Roman Ruins of São Cucufate

Vidigueira, Beja, Portugal

São Cucufate is the largest known Roman villa in Portugal, an unusually vertical estate whose vaulted rear gallery still stands two stories high....

Roman Temple of Diana, Mérida

Mérida, Badajoz, Spain

Standing at the heart of Mérida's ancient forum, this 1st-century temple takes its popular name from a 17th-century historian's mistaken comparison to a Greek temple of...

Ruins of Montegrande

Jaén, Cajamarca, Peru

Rising from the rice paddies outside Jaén, a mound as tall as a five-story building conceals one of Peru's most ancient mysteries: a spiral temple built around 3000 BCE by...

Runkurakay

Machu Picchu district, Cusco, Peru

Runkurakay is a compact, unusually circular Inca structure perched near a high pass on Day 2 of the Classic Inca Trail....

Sakafuneishi Site

Asuka, Nara Prefecture, Japan

In the hills of Asuka, Japan's ancient capital, water once flowed through a turtle-shaped stone basin in ceremonies conducted for Empress Saimei nearly fourteen centuries...

San Agustín Archaeological Park

Huila, Huila, Colombia

In the Colombian highlands where the Andes split and the Magdalena River begins, a civilization whose own name is lost created the largest collection of megalithic...

San Augustin Terrace A

Part of San Agustín Archaeological Park

Huila, Huila, Colombia

Mesita A is among the first places the San Agustin people chose to bury their important dead, approximately 2,300 years ago....

San Augustin Terrace B

Part of San Agustín Archaeological Park

Huila, Huila, Colombia

Mesita B is where the San Agustin culture speaks most fluently. Three burial mounds, approximately one hundred and six tombs, and sixty-three statues constitute the most...

San Augustin Terrace C

Part of San Agustín Archaeological Park

Huila, Huila, Colombia

Where Mesitas A and B communicate through monumental guardians and cosmic programs, Mesita C speaks through intimacy....

Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidauros

Epidauros, Peloponnese, Greece

Epidauros was the principal sanctuary of Asklepios, Greek god of healing, and the mother-shrine from which all other Asklepieia drew their authority....

Sanctuary of Panóias

Vila Real, Vila Real, Portugal

In the late 2nd to early 3rd century CE, the Roman senator Gaius Calpurnius Rufinus inscribed the granite outcrops of Panóias with an unusually explicit sacred law: the...

Sannai-Maruyama Site

Aomori, Aomori Prefecture, Japan

For seventeen centuries, the Jomon people lived at Sannai-Maruyama, cultivating chestnuts, trading jade across hundreds of kilometers, and building structures that still...

Sarmishsay Petroglyphs

Sarmishsay, Navoiy Region, Uzbekistan

Sarmishsay Petroglyphs is a documented archaeological site in Sarmishsay, Navoiy Region, Uzbekistan, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....

Sayacmarca

Machu Picchu district, Cusco, Peru

Sayacmarca clings to a narrow ridge above the Aobamba valley, accessible only by a steep stone staircase, its labyrinthine plan combining what may be ceremonial baths,...

Sayil Archaeological Zone

Santa Elena, Yucatán, Mexico

Sayil—Place of the Leafcutter Ants—was once home to 10,000 people in a region with no surface water....

Saymaluu-Tash Petroglyphs

Kazarman, Jalal-Abad Region, Kyrgyzstan

Saymaluu-Tash Petroglyphs is a documented archaeological site in Kazarman, Jalal-Abad Region, Kyrgyzstan, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....

Segóbriga Archaeological Park

Saelices, Cuenca, Spain

Segóbriga crowns a mesa in the Spanish Meseta, its theatre, amphitheatre, forum, and Visigothic basilica still largely standing after two millennia of near-continuous...

Seongjusa Temple Site, Boryeong

Boryeong, Boryeong, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea

Seongjusa Temple Site, Boryeong is a protected archaeological temple site in Boryeong, South Korea....

Seyit Jemaleddin Mosque Ruins

Anau, Ahal Region, Turkmenistan

Seyit Jemaleddin Mosque Ruins is a documented archaeological site in Anau, Ahal Region, Turkmenistan, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....

Si Thep Ancient Town

Si Thep, Phetchabun, Thailand

Si Thep is a UNESCO-inscribed serial cultural property whose moated twin town, Khao Klang Nok monument, and Khao Thamorrat cave document Dvaravati religious exchange....

Sito Archeologico Lu Brandali - Mostra di Archeologia Nuragica

Santa Teresa Gallura, Sassari, Italy

Lu Brandali preserves a nuragic village, tower, and Giants' Tomb on a granite promontory in northeastern Sardinia....

Smbataberd Fortress and Chapel Landscape

Artabuynk / Yeghegis, Vayots Dzor, Armenia

Smbataberd Fortress and Chapel Landscape is a documented archaeological site in Artabuynk / Yeghegis, Vayots Dzor, Armenia, connected with Historical regional religious...

Tambomachay Archaeological Complex

Cuzco, Cusco, Peru

At 3,700 meters above Cusco, water emerges from underground springs and flows through channels carved five centuries ago by Inca engineers....

Tamgaly Archaeological Landscape

Karabastau, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan

Tamgaly Archaeological Landscape is a documented archaeological site in Karabastau, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....

Teatro di Segesta

Calatafimi-Segesta, Trapani, Italy

The Theatre of Segesta sits atop Monte Barbaro in northwestern Sicily, carved from the hillside above a cave that held a sacred spring over a thousand years before the...

Teishebaini Fortress

Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia

Teishebaini Fortress is a documented archaeological site in Yerevan, Armenia, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....

Templo Mayor Archaeological Zone and Museum

Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

Templo Mayor Archaeological Zone and Museum preserves the principal ceremonial complex of Mexico-Tenochtitlan....

Terekti Aulie Petroglyphs

Terekty, Ulytau Region, Kazakhstan

Terekti Aulie Petroglyphs is a documented archaeological site in Terekty, Ulytau Region, Kazakhstan, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....

The Archaeological Park of Alto de las Piedras

Huila, Huila, Colombia

On a hilltop in the Colombian highlands, eleven monumental statues and painted burial chambers preserve the San Agustin culture's understanding of death as transformation....

The Archaeological Park of Alto de los Ídolos

Huila, Huila, Colombia

The San Agustin people found a horseshoe-shaped hill near Isnos and remade it. They leveled the summit, terraced the slopes, and filled the resulting platform with seven...

Thyatira

Akhisar, Manisa, Turkey

Thyatira was the smallest of the seven cities addressed in the Book of Revelation, yet it received the longest of Christ's seven letters — commended for endurance,...

Tierradentro Pyramid

Inza, Cauca, Colombia

Near the town of Inza, a pyramidal stone formation rises from the Cauca mountainside, bearing the marks of two vastly different encounters....

Tiwanaku Archaeological Site

Tiwanaku, La Paz, Bolivia

Tiwanaku rises from the Altiplano at nearly 4,000 meters, the spiritual and political capital of a pre-Inca civilization that unified architecture, astronomy, and worship...