Europe architecture history cheat sheet

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300s-Current Portland Stone · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Allington Quarry · Geographics + Legend
hard grey limestone in Kent, England, drawn from the geological sequence known as the Hythe Beds of the Lower Greensand. For millennia it has been quarried for use both locally and further afield.
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Brenner Pass 1370m · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Gotthard Pass · Geographics + Legend
2,106 m (6,909 ft)
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Great St Bernard Pass 2469m · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Mount Centis Pass 2083m · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Schöllenen Gorge · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Mount Olympus · Geographics + Legend
highest mountain in Greece, 2,917 m (9,570 ft)
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Mount Vesuvius · Geographics + Legend
1,281 m
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Silicy Mount Etna unesco · Geographics + Legend
Prominence 3,357 m (11,014 ft) In Greek mythology, the deadly monster Typhon was trapped under this mountain by Zeus, the god of the sky and thunder and king of gods, and the forges of Hephaestus were said also to be underneath it.[7] Mount Etna is one of the world's most active …
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Mount Athos, Greece unesco · Geographics + Legend
important centre of Eastern Orthodox monasticism in northeastern Greece. The mountain along with the respective part of the peninsula have been governed as the monastic community of Mount Athos, an autonomous region within the Hellenic Republic, ecclesiastically under the direct …
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Matterhorn · Geographics + Legend
Gornergrat
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Lovćen · Geographics + Legend
1,749 m (5,738 ft) It is the inspiration behind the names Montenegro and Crna Gora, both of which mean "Black Mountain" and refer to the appearance of Mount Lovćen when covered in dense forests
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0000 Externsteine · Geographics + Legend
In a popular tradition going back to an idea proposed to Hermann Hamelmann in 1564, the Externsteine are identified as a sacred site of the pagan Saxons, and the location of the Irminsul idol reportedly destroyed by Charlemagne; there is however no archaeological evidence that wo…
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Passo Della Cisa · Geographics + Legend
1,041 m (3,415 ft
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1000s ++... Rammelsberg Metals Mines unesco · Geographics + Legend
The mountain is the location of an important silver, copper, and lead mine. When it closed in 1988, it had been the only mine still working continuously for over 1,000 years.[1] Because of its long history of mining and testimony to the advancement and exchange of technology over…
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Montmartre, Paris · Geographics + Legend
130 m (430 ft) high
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Várhegy · Geographics + Legend
Castle Hill (Hungarian: Várhegy) i 175 metres (574 ft) All Hungarian kings have added something to the fort or the palace. King Béla IV built the first fort on Castle Hill between 1247 and 1265 after a first Mongol invasion of Hungary in 1242.[6] Béla surrounded the settlement wi…
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Monte Morello · Geographics + Legend
Monte Morello is the highest mountain (934 m.) in the Florentine valley, Italy. It is located to the north-west of Florence and it spreads across the borders of the municipalities of Florence, Vaglia, Sesto Fiorentino and Calenzano.
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Dikti Mtns · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Tourist Cave of Panzoult · Geographics + Legend
example of Loire Valley renaissance Tuffeau stone in its natural state
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Mt Ararat · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Srebarna Nature Reserve unesco · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Pirin National Park unesco · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Ex Wine,Beer,Spirits,Etc · Geographics + Legend
in case you need something to eat: I didn't want to clutter the maps with food - beverage info. Champagne Region of France is a unesco area
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Col de Montgenèvre Pass, 1860 m · Geographics + Legend
1,860 m (6,102 ft)
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Reschen Pass 1,504m · Geographics + Legend
the border between South Tyrol, Italy and Tyrol, Austria has approximately followed the watershed, the pass summit at a height of 1,504 metres (4,934 ft) being completely on Italian territory.
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Unesco · Geographics + Legend
note: on phistoric-classical-early middleages layers Unesco sites are marked with Palace symbol. anything before year 1000AD. Unesco sites are particularily well documented in wikipedia. High relevence and detailed analysis.
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Monte Cinto · Geographics + Legend
The elevation of the mountain is 2,706 metres (8,878 ft) and so is its prominence, making it one of the most prominent peaks in Europe. It is the highest peak of the Monte Cinto massif, one of the four main massifs in Corsica. Its location gives it a theoretical panorama of mount…
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Puy de Dôme unesco · Geographics + Legend
lava dome and one of the youngest volcanoes in the Chaîne des Puys region of Massif Central in central France. This chain of volcanoes including numerous cinder cones, lava domes and maars is far from the edge of any tectonic plate.[5] Puy de Dôme was created by a Peléan eruption…
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0000 Phlegraean Fields, Rock Quarry · Geographics + Legend
The area was the site of quarries for piperno stone, an ignimbrite (welded tuff), a stone that was used to build much of Naples; piperno "is probably the most important building stone of Naples, used over a time-span from at least the Roman age until the beginning of the 20th cen…
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900s Q Caen stone Quarry?? · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
0000 Carrara Marble Quarry · Geographics + Legend
Cava Museo Fantiscritti
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500BC Aliki Marble Quarry · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
0000 Mount Pentelicus Quarry · Geographics + Legend
Mount Pentelicus has been famous for its marble since antiquity. Pentelic marble was used for the construction of buildings in ancient Athens, particularly the Acropolis. The ancient quarry is protected by law, and used exclusively to obtain material for the Acropolis Restoration…
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1000BC Paros Marble · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
500BC Q Naxos Marble · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Istrian stone · Geographics + Legend
major source of stone for venice between Portorož and Pula.[1][2][3]
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0000 Tašmajdan Roman Quarry · Geographics + Legend
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0000 Pozzuoli Sand · Geographics + Legend
Vitruvius, writing around 25 BC in his Ten Books on Architecture, distinguished types of materials appropriate for the preparation of lime mortars. For structural mortars, he recommended pozzolana (pulvis puteolanus in Latin), the volcanic sand from the beds of Pozzuoli, which ar…
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1000 Saint-Leu d'Esserent caves · Geographics + Legend
STONE QUARRIESby John H. Lienhard The limestone quarries of Northern France produced more stone during 300 years in the High Middle Ages than was used in all of ancient Egypt. Those magnificent Gothic cathedrals and other late medieval buildings ate an enormous amount of rock. So…
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0000 Quarry of El Mèdol unesco · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
1700s Ruskeala · Geographics + Legend
The quarries, as well as some other marble deposits of Karelia, the Urals, and Italy, supplied various projects in St. Petersburg, including St. Isaac's Cathedral, Marble Palace, St. Michael's Castle, the interiors of the Winter Palace, New Hermitage and Kazan Cathedral, and deco…
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1200s --- Banská Štiavnica, Silver Mining, unesco · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
1830s The Oak plantings on Visingsö · Geographics + Legend
*Much history on island due to secure location early royal castle, russian prisoner camp, royal tree farm.
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Beşparmak Mountains, Mount Latmus · Geographics + Legend
Latmus is probably alluded to by Homer, when he speaks of the mountain of the Phthirians, in the neighbourhood of Miletus.[9] Latmus appears in Greek mythology as the site of the cave where Selene's consort Endymion lies forever young and beautiful in blissful sleep.[10]
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Hortobágy National Park unesco · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
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Lake Balaton · Geographics + Legend
In January 846, the Slavic prince Pribina began to build a fortress as his seat of power and several churches in the region of Lake Balaton, in the territory of modern Zalavár surrounded by forests and swamps along the Zala River.[9][10][11] His well-fortified castle and capital …
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Bastei · Geographics + Legend
The Bastei has been a tourist attraction for over 200 years. In 1824, a wooden bridge was constructed to link several rocks for the visitors. This bridge was replaced in 1851 by the present Bastei Bridge made of sandstone. The rock formations and vistas have inspired numerous art…
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Salina Turda, Salt Mines · Geographics + Legend
Salina Turda was ranked in 2013 by Business Insider as among the "25 hidden gems around the world that are worth the trek".[3] Salt was first extracted here during the antiquity. The mine continuously produced table salt from the Middle Ages, the mine being first mentioned in 127…
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Veretskyi Pass, 841 m (2,759 ft) · Geographics + Legend
The pass has been well-traveled for more than a millennium. In 895 the Hungarian tribes entered the Carpathian Basin and during the next century established the Kingdom of Hungary. In 1241 the main army of the Mongols crossed the pass into the Kingdom of Hungary. In 1703, when Fr…
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Corno Grande · Geographics + Legend
highest point in the Apennine Mountains, situated in Abruzzo, central Italy. Part of the Gran Sasso massif, it is the highest peak of the Italian Peninsula at 2,912 metres (9,554 ft). It is the highest peak in mainland Italy outside of the Alps, and the second highest in the enti…
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Cilician Gates · Geographics + Legend
The Cilician Gates have been a major commercial and military artery for millennia.[3] In the early 20th century, a narrow-gauge railway was built through them, and today, the Tarsus-Ankara Highway (E90, O-21) passes through them.
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Centro Valle Intelvi · Geographics + Legend
scattered Italian municipality of 3,767 inhabitants [ 2 ] in the province of Como in Lombardy
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Zuiderzee · Geographics + Legend
Around the Zuiderzee many fishing villages grew up and several developed into walled towns with extensive trade connections, in particular Kampen, a town in Overijssel, and later also towns in Holland such as Amsterdam, Hoorn, and Enkhuizen. These towns traded at first with ports…
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Persian Gates · Geographics + Legend
ancient name of the pass now known as Tang-e Meyran, connecting Yasuj with Sedeh Eghlid to the east, crossing the border of the modern Kohgiluyeh va Boyer Ahmad and Fars provinces of Iran, passing south of the Kuh-e-Dinar massif, part of the Zagros Mountains. The pass controls th…
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Las Médulas Goldmines · Geographics + Legend
It was the most important gold mine, as well as the largest open-pit gold mine, in the entire Roman Empire.[1]
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Wieliczka Salt Mine · Geographics + Legend
The first documentation of the mine dates from 1044, when Casimir I granted a privilege.[5][6] Monks collected salt around that time.[7] Since the 13th century, brine welling up to the surface had been collected and processed for its sodium chloride (table-salt) content. In this …
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Khyber Pass · Geographics + Legend
Historical invasions of the Indian subcontinent have been predominantly through the Khyber Pass, such as those of Cyrus, Darius I, Alexander, Genghis Khan, and later Mongols such as Duwa, Qutlugh Khwaja and Kebek. Prior to the Kushan era, the Khyber Pass was not a widely used tra…
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Rasohe Roman Stone Quarry on Brač · Geographics + Legend
**Stone used at Diocletian's Palace unesco
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Black Sea · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Caspian Sea · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Baltic Sea · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Aegean Sea · Geographics + Legend
The current coastline dates back to about 4000 BC. Before that time, at the peak of the last ice age (about 18,000 years ago) sea levels everywhere were 130 metres (430 ft) lower, and there were large well-watered coastal plains instead of much of the northern Aegean. When they w…
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Carthage Quarries, El Haouaria, Tunisia · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Tepeyac · Geographics + Legend
According to the Catholic tradition, it is the site where Saint Juan Diego met the Virgin of Guadalupe in December 1531, and received the iconic image of the Lady of Guadalupe. The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe located there is one of the most visited Catholic shrines in the …
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Lake Van · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Falun Mine Copper unesco · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Mount Sinai · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
500BC Daorson · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Cardona Salt Mine, Spain · Geographics + Legend
The hill has been worked like a mine since Roman times
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Poiana Slatinei-Lunca, Salt Mine, Romania · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
100BC Solomon's Quarries, Zedekiah's Cave · Geographics + Legend
also known as Solomon's Quarries, is a 5-acre (20,000 m2) underground meleke limestone quarry under the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem that runs the length of five city blocks, named after King Zedekiah (Tzidkiyahu; a Judean king of the 6th century BC[1]) It was carv…
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Moravian Gate · Geographics + Legend
. Its crest is located between the villages of Olšovec and Bělotín at 310 m (1,020 ft). Its average altitude is 270 metres (890 ft).[1] Because of its low altitude, the Moravian Gate has since ancient times been a natural pass between the Sudetes (Oderské vrchy range) in the nort…
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400BC Dun Dornaigil · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
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North Sea · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Dead Sea · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Sea of Galilee · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Lake Constance · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Lake Geneva · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Ulriksdal Palace · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Rosersberg Palace · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Strömsholm Palace · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Gustav III’s Pavilion · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Rosendal Palace · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Crowhurst Yew · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Suwałki Gap · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Puy de Sancy - 1,885 m (6,184 ft) · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Mount Carmel · Geographics + Legend
Elevation 525.4 m (1,724 ft)
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600BC Acre, Israel · Geographics + Legend
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Mount Gilboa · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Mount Kailash · Geographics + Legend
he sources of four rivers: Indus, Sutlej, Brahmaputra, and Ghaghara lie in the vicinity of the region. Mount Kailash is sacred in Bon, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism. People from China, India, Nepal, and other countries in the region undertake a pilgrimage to the mountain. The p…
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Machapuchare · Geographics + Legend
Machapuchare commands tremendous vertical relief in a short horizontal distance. This, combined with its steep, pointed profile, makes it a particularly striking peak, despite its lower elevation than some of its neighbors. Its double summit resembles the tail of a fish, hence th…
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1500s Czech Museum of Silver · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
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Tomorr · Geographics + Legend
Tomorr is a holy mountain for Albanians, and it is a site where annual pilgrimages take place during the second half of August.[6] Along with St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Laç, Mount Tomorr is the most frequented sacred place in Albania.[7]
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Mount Nebo · Geographics + Legend
According to the Bible (Deuteronomy), Moses ascended Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab (today in Jordan), and from there he saw the Land of Canaan (the Promised Land), which God had said he would not enter; Moses then died there.[1] The Bible (Deuteronomy 34:6) says Moses' burial p…
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2000BC Great Orme · Geographics + Legend
Large-scale human activity on the Great Orme began around 4,000 years ago during the Bronze Age with the opening of several copper mines. The copper ore malachite was mined using stones and bone tools.[17] It is estimated that up to 1,760 tonnes of copper was mined during the per…
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2500BC Ross Island, Killarney · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
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300BC Solsbury Hill · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Harrat Khaybar · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
Monte Arci · Geographics + Legend
Monte Arci is renowned for its importance as one of the primary sources of obsidian in the western Mediterranean. Beginning in the Neolithic period (about 6,000–3,000 BCE), the distinctive volcanic glass from this region was extensively exploited and widely traded throughout the …
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2000BC -+ Mohenjo-daro · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
1000+ German Salt Museum, Lüneburg · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
1600s Slănic salt mine · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
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300BC Syracuse Quarry · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
0000 Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Tripontium · Geographics + Legend
site nearby but not much so see
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National Museum of Namibia · Geographics + Legend Open in Google Maps
1M BC Iziko South African Museum · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
1M BC Museum of History & Civilizations Morroco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
800000BC Archaeological site of Atapuerca unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
notable for its evidence of early human occupation. Bone fragments from around 800,000 years ago, found in its Gran Dolina cavern, provide the oldest known evidence of hominid settlement in Western Europe and of hominid cannibalism anywhere in the world.[1] nearby
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600000BC Archaeological area of Notarchirico · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
artifacts nearby here: The fossil of a femur, classified as VN-H1 discovered in 1985, re-analyzed with the most modern scientific techniques, was attributed to a teenager of the species H. heidelbergensis, dated to a period between 661 000 and 614 000 years from the present[.[4]
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450000 Caune de l’Arago · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
archaic humans which—from approximately 550,000 to 400,000 years ago—inhabited the Caune de l’Arago, a limestone cave in Tautavel, France. They are generally grouped as part of a long and highly variable lineage of transitional morphs which inhabited the Middle Pleistocene of Eur…
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400000BC Paläon Research and Experience Center · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Schöningen is famous for the Schöningen Spears, four ancient wooden spears found in the "spear horizon" in an opencast mine near the town (Bamford & Henderson 2003). The spears are about 400,000 years old (Klein. 2005. p114), making them the world's oldest human-made wooden artif…
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400000BC Terra Amata (archaeological site) · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
The site now lies beneath an apartment building and a museum of prehistoric Nice, where some of the objects discovered are on display.
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400000BC Bilzingsleben (Paleolithic site) · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
notable for its wealth of palaeolithic human fossils and artifacts. One of the oldest buildings in the world and one of the oldest pieces of art was found at the site.[1]
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100000BC Geissenklösterle · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
60000BC Kebara Cave · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
60000BC Cave of La Pasiega · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
The recorded remains belong mainly to the Upper Solutrean and the Lower Magdalenian ages, although older objects are also found. In 2018 uranium-thorium dating revealed a scalariform (ladder shaped) symbol to be older than 64,000 years and therefore made by Neanderthals.[2] Throu…
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50000BC Creswell Crags · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
caves that were occupied by Neanderthals and modern humans during the Last Glacial Period, between around 60,000 and 10,000 years ago. The caves contain Upper Palaeolithic cave art, the northernmost cave art in Europe with other Palaeolithic art objects having also been found in …
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50000BC Gorham's Cave unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
50000BC Creswell Crags · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
caves that were occupied by Neanderthals and modern humans during the Last Glacial Period, between around 60,000 and 10,000 years ago. The caves contain Upper Palaeolithic cave art, the northernmost cave art in Europe with other Palaeolithic art objects having also been found in …
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40000 Kleine Feldhofer Grotte · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
karstic limestone cave and a paleoanthropologic site in the Neander Valley in western Germany. In August 1856, the Neanderthal type specimen was unearthed from the cave. Miners uncovered a skull cap and a number of skeletal bones to be labeled Neanderthal. The bones belong to at …
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40000BC Furninha · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
natural cave on the southern slope of the Peniche peninsula in Portugal. The cave is situated on the cliffs between the Peniche Fortress and the Cape Carvoeiro.[1][2][3] [4][5] The cave is located furthest west of any Neanderthal site. Neanderthals became extinct over 40,000 year…
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40000BC Hohlenstein-Stadel · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
carved out of mammoth ivory using a flint stone knife. Seven parallel, transverse, carved gouges are on the left arm.
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40000BC Hohlenstein-Stadel · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Further excavations followed in 1956 and 1957, and between 1959 and 1961. The stratigraphy includes layers from the Neolithic, Mesolithic, Upper Paleolithic, notably the Magdalenian and the Aurignacian periods and finally the Middle Paleolithic.[2]
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40000BC Cave of El Castillo unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
350000 Samu (fossil) Museum · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
35000BC Spy Cave · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Classified as a premier Heritage site of the Walloon Region, the location ranks among the most significant paleolithic sites in Europe. The cave consists of numerous small chambers and corridors.[2] In 1886 Neanderthal fossils of excellent quality were discovered
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35000 Hohle Fels unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
32000BC ... Kostyonki–Borshchyovo archaeological complex · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
It is known for its high concentration of cultural remains of anatomically modern humans from the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic era, before 40,000 years ago.[2][3] Finds are on exhibit in situ, at the State Archaeological Museum–Reserve Kostyonki built atop the mammoth bone …
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30000BC Cave of Altamira unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
renowned for prehistoric cave art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of contemporary local fauna and human hands. The earliest paintings were applied during the Upper Paleolithic, around 36,000 years ago.[1] The site was discovered in 1868 by Modesto Cubillas an…
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30000BC Dolní Věstonice (archaeological site) · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
The site is unique in that it has been a particularly abundant source of prehistoric artifacts (especially art) dating from the Gravettian period, which spanned roughly from 27,000 to 20,000 BC. In addition to the abundance of art, this site also includes carved representations o…
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28000BC Cro-Magnon rock shelter unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
site of the discovery (1868) of anatomically modern human remains, apparently buried at the site, dated to about 28,000 years ago.[5] The find is also called Cro Magnon after the name of the rock shelter.
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27000BC Caves of Gargas · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
20000BC ++ Theopetra Cave · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
17000BC Lascaux, unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Over 600 parietal wall paintings cover the interior walls and ceilings of the cave. The paintings represent primarily large animals, typical local contemporary fauna that correspond with the fossil record of the Upper Paleolithic in the area. They are the combined effort of many …
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15000BC R Magdalenian unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Édouard Lartet, financed and helped by the Englishman Henry Christy, were the first systematic excavators of the site, starting in 1863, and published their findings in 1875 under the name of the Age of the Reindeer ("L'âge du renne"). Objects that were found at the la Madeleine …
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13000BC Cap Blanc rock shelter, unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
10000BC -- Pech Merle · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
one of the few prehistoric cave painting sites in France that remains open to the general public, albeit with an entry fee. Encompassing two levels and spanning over 2 km (1.24 mi) in area—of which only 1,200 m (3,900 ft) are open to the public[2]—are caverns, wells and sloping t…
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10000BC Franchthi Cave · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Humans first occupied the cave during the Upper Paleolithic, appearing around 38,000 BC (and possibly earlier.)[1] Groups continued to live in or seasonally visit the cave throughout the Mesolithic and Neolithic eras, with occasional short episodes of apparent abandonment.[2] Las…
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10000Bc Karahan Tepe · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
site may be the earliest known human village, predating the construction of Göbekli Tepe by several centuries, dating to between 10,000 and 9500 BCE.[1]
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10000BC Les Combarelles unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
10000BC Musée de Préhistoire des gorges du Verdon · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Between 1957 and 1971, extensive archaeological excavations took place in the run-up to the construction of the dam of Sainte-Croix-du-Verdon in the valley of the . It has the status of a Musée de France and is one of the largest prehistoric museums in Europe.
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10000BC Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
10000BC Rouffignac Cave · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
contains over 250 engravings and cave paintings dating back to the Upper Paleolithic. I
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10000BC Tito Bustillo Cave unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
prehistoric rock shelter located in the small town of Ribadesella, in the autonomous community of Asturias, Spain. The cave was inhabited by humans (cro-magnon) before the year 10,000 BC. Due to the collapse of the rock, the original entrance to the cave was sealed thousands of y…
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10000 BC Cueva de la Pileta · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Cueva de la Pileta in Benaoján, Spain, features prehistoric art, with major paintings dated to over 20,000–25,000 years ago, placing them in the Upper Paleolithic period. While some human remains date back 30,000 years, the cave also has older geological origins, with some estima…
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10000BC Musée de l'Homme · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
The Musée de l'Homme has inherited items from historical collections created as early as the 16th century, from cabinets of curiosities, and the Royal Cabinet. These collections were enriched during the 19th century, and are still added to today. The aim is to gather in one site …
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9999BC Chauvet Cave unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
replica site: Preservation The cave has been sealed off to the public since 1994. Access is severely restricted owing to the experience with decorated caves such as Altamira and Lascaux found in the 19th and 20th century, where the admission of visitors on a large scale led to th…
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8000BC Bockstein Cave · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
8000BC Göbekli Tepe · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Neolithic archaeological site in Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira) in modern-day Turkey. The settlement was inhabited from around 9500 BCE to at least 8000 BCE,[5] during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. It is famous for its large circular structures that contain massive stone pillars – am…
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8000BC Kalavasos Tenta · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Aceramic Neolithic settlement located in modern Kalavasos near the southern coast of Cyprus.[1]
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8000BC Magura Cave · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Cave paintings dating from the Epipaleolithic, late Neolithic, Eneolithic and early Bronze Age decorate some of the cave's walls. The paintings have been estimated to be made between 10.000 and 8.000 years ago. The drawings represent important events of the society that had occup…
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8000BC aşıklı höyük · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
The archaeological site of Aşıklı Höyük was first settled in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period, around 8,200 BC.[1]
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7500BC Çatalhöyük unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia
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7000BC Hacılar Höyük · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
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6000BC Lepenski Vir · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Mesolithic Iron Gates Hunter-Gatherers period and transition to Early Neolithic Early European Farmers period of the Balkans.[2] One of the most important archaeological sites in Serbia and Europe is Lepenski Vir, the oldest planned settlement in Europe, located on the banks of t…
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6000BC Uruk · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Uruk has some of the first monumental constructions in architectural history, and certainly the largest of its era. Much of Near Eastern architecture can trace its roots to these prototypical buildings. The structures of Uruk are cited under two different naming conventions: one …
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6000BC Almendres Cromlech · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
The largest existing group of structured menhirs in the Iberian Peninsula (and one of the largest in Europe), this archaeological site consists of several megalithic structures: cromlechs and menhir stones, that belong to the so-called "megalithic universe of Évora", with clear p…
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6000BC Neolithic Settlement of Nea Nicomedia I · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
It is best known for the nearby Early Neolithic settlement, one of the oldest in Europe.
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6000BC Amnya complex · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
nothing open to public nearby dating to the early Neolithic and Chalcolithic. It comprises two sections, Amnya I and Amnya II, each a series of ten pit-houses of varying sizes about 50 meters apart. They are built atop a steep escarpment formerly overlooking a river, now adjacent…
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5200BC Għar Dalam · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
The cave contains the bones of animals that lived on Malta during the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs. It has lent its name to the Għar Dalam phase in Maltese prehistory, and is viewed as one of Malta's most important national monuments.[2] Pottery similar to that found in Stenti…
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5000BC Goseck Circle · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
may be the oldest and best known of the circular enclosures associated with the Central European Neolithic. Currently, the site is presented officially by the state archaeologists and the local association that looks after it as a ritual or cult structure.
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5000BC Klekkende Høj unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
megalithic tomb on the island of Møn in Denmark. It takes its name from its location near the village of Klekkende. "Høj" stems from the Old Norse word haugr (Swedish "hög"), meaning hill, mound or barrow. The tomb is believed to date from the Neolithic Age, ca. years old, and is…
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5000BC Tell es-Sultan UNESCO · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
nearby in the city of Jericho, consisting of the remains of the oldest fortified city in the world.[1][2] It is located adjacent to the Ein es-Sultan refugee camp, two kilometres north of the centre of the Palestinian city of Jericho. The tell was inhabited from the 10th millenni…
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5000BC XX Khirokitia UNESCO · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
dv The site is known as one of the most important and best preserved prehistoric sites of the eastern Mediterranean. Much of its importance lies in the evidence of an organised functional society in the form of a collective settlement, with surrounding fortifications for communal…
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3000BC The Millars · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
5000BC Rock art Natural reserve of Ceto, Cimbergo and Paspardo unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
The Rock Art Natural Reserve of Ceto, Cimbergo, and Paspardo contains engravings dating from the 5th millennium B.C. (Neolithic) up to the Middle Ages. As part of the wider Valcamonica site (a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1979), some engravings in the valley are as old as 10,…
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5000BC Şanlıurfa Archaeology and Mosaic Museum · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
5000BC Sesklo · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
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5000BC -+ The National Barn of the Tassili Museum · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
5000BC Tel Afek · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
5000BC Tumba Madzari Archaeological Village · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
The first archaeological excavations were conducted in 1978 by the Museum of Macedonia, under the leadership of Voislav Sanev. The stratigraphy of the settlement has a cultural layer that indicates life was continuously taking place in the period between year 6000 and 4300 BC.[1]
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5000BC Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Berlin) · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
one of major archaeological museums of Germany, and among the largest supra-regional collections of prehistoric finds in Europe. It was previously located in the former theatre building by Carl Ferdinand Langhans, next to Schloss Charlottenburg, and encompasses six exhibition hal…
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5000BC 'En Esur · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
A 7,000-year-old Early Chalcolithic large village already showing signs of incipient urbanisation and with an open space used for cultic activities was discovered at the site below later, Bronze Age remains.[5] During the Early Bronze Age, around 3000 BCE, a massive fortified pro…
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5000BC Eridu · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Eridu is traditionally considered the earliest city in southern Mesopotamia based on the Sumerian King List. Located 24 km (15 mi) south-southwest of the ancient site of Ur, Eridu was the southernmost of a conglomeration of Sumerian cities that grew around temples, almost in sigh…
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4700BC Locmariaquer megaliths · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
4700BC Pločnik (archaeological site) · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
settlement belonging to the Neolithic Vinča culture existed on the site from 5500 BCE until it was destroyed by fire in 4700 BCE.
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4500BC Alaca Höyük · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
4000BC Barnenez · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
ga archaeological museum Neolithic monument located near Plouezoc'h, on the Kernéléhen peninsula in northern Finistère, Brittany (France). It dates to the early Neolithic, about 4800 BC. Along with the Tumulus of Bougon and Locmariaquer megaliths, also located in Great West Franc…
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4000BC Gavrinis · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
4000BC Krzemionki unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
early Bronze Age complex of flint mines for the extraction of Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) banded flints The flint mining in Krzemionki began about 3900 BC and lasted until about 1600 BC. During Neolithic times the mine was used by members of the Funnelbeaker culture who spread the…
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4000BC Musée du Pays Châtillonnais · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
4000BC Pfahlbausiedlung Wauwil, unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
excavations under René Wyss in 1965 and 1985–88, eleven Neolithic and 30 Mesolithic sites were known at the Wauwilermoos, at the beginning of the 21st century even more than 120 Stone Age sites.[7]
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4000BC Varna Archaeological Museum · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
One of the largest museums in Bulgaria, it has 2,150 m2 of exhibition area with exhibits from the prehistoric, Thracian, Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman periods of the region's history, as well as from the times of the medieval Bulgarian and Byzantine Empires, Ottoman rule and th…
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4000BC Areni-1 Cave · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
The cave has also offered surprising new insights into the origins of modern civilizations, such as evidence of a wine-making enterprise and an array of culturally diverse pottery. Excavations also yielded an extensive array of Copper Age artifacts dating to between 4,200 and 3,9…
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4000BC Kit's Coty House · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
4000BC Susa unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
4000BC Solnitsata, bulgaria · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
t was the first prehistoric urban center in Europe. Solnitsata was a fortified stone settlement - citadelle, inner and outer city with pottery production site and the site of a salt production facility;[2] it flourished c. 4700–4200 BC.[3] The settlement was walled to protect the…
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3700BC Dolmen of Menga unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
megalithic burial mound called a tumulus, a long barrow form of dolmen, dating from 3750–3650 BCE approximately. It is near Antequera, Málaga, Spain. It is one of the largest known ancient megalithic structures in Europe.[1][2] It is 27.5 metres (90 ft) long, 6 metres (20 ft) wid…
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3700BC West Kennet Long Barrow unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
chambered long barrow near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county of Wiltshire. Probably constructed in the thirty-seventh century BC, during Britain's Early Neolithic period, today it survives in a partially reconstructed state. Archaeologists have establishe…
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3500BC Flag Fen · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Bronze Age site which was constructed about 3500 years ago and consists of more than 60,000 timbers arranged in five very long rows,[2] creating a wooden causeway (around 1 km long) across the wet fenland. Part-way across the structure a small island was formed. Items associated …
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3500BC Tumulus of Bougon · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
3500BC Ġgantija unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
megalithic temple complex from the Neolithic era (c. 3600–2500 BC), on the Mediterranean island of Gozo in Malta. The Ġgantija temples are the earliest of the Megalithic Temples of Malta and are older than the pyramids of Egypt. Their makers erected the two Ġgantija temples durin…
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3500BC Rudston Monolith · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
tallest monolith (standing stone) in the United Kingdom. It is situated in the churchyard in the village of Rudston (grid reference TA 098 678) in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
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3500BC Poulnabrone Dolmen · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
3000BC QQ Kargaly Copper Mines · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Kargaly is a copper mining-metallurgical district in the southern Urals of Russia. Prehistoric sites in Kargaly form a large and unique complex, especially when compared to neighboring metal production centers or the more distant ancient centers that emerged on the vast territory…
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3000BC Carnac Stones · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
probably grave marker More than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones were hewn from local granite and erected by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany and form the largest such collection in the world.[1] Most of the stones are within the Breton municipality of Carnac, but some to the e…
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3000BC Craggaunowen · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
ga reconstructions of ancient Irish architecture including a dolmen, a crannog and the currach boat used in Tim Severin's recreation of "The Voyage of St. Brendan the Abbot".[3] It also shows reconstructions of a Ringfort, Fulachta Fia (Bronze Age cooking and industrial site) and…
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3000BC Newgrange unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
3000BC Ħaġar Qim unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
megalithic temple complex found on the Mediterranean island of Malta, dating from the Ġgantija phase (3600–3200 BC).[1] The Megalithic Temples of Malta are among the most ancient religious sites on Earth,[2] described by the World Heritage Sites committee as "unique architectural…
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3000BC Skara Brae unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill in the parish of Sandwick, on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland. It consisted of ten clustered houses, made of flagstones, in earthen dams that provided support for t…
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3000BC Old Sarum · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
An Iron Age hillfort was erected around 400 BC, controlling the intersection of two trade paths and the Hampshire Avon. The site continued to be occupied during the Roman period, when the paths were made into roads. The Saxons took the British fort in the 6th century and later us…
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3000BC Megalithic Monuments of Alcalar · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
Necropolis of Su Crucifissu Mannu unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
nearby 3000BC Monte d'Accoddi Neolithic archaeological site in northern Sardinia, located in the territory of Sassari, Italy. The site consists of a massive raised stone platform thought to have been an altar. It was constructed by the Ozieri culture or earlier, with the oldest p…
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3000BC XR Harhoog · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
The Harhoog is a dolmen, a rectangular megalithic tomb from the Funnelbeaker culture, located near Keitum on the island of Sylt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.[1] Discovered in 1925, it was moved to the present site in 1954 when a new airport was developed.
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3000BC Phylakopi · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Obsidian (a glass-like volcanic rock) from Milos was a commodity as early as 15,000 years ago.[4] Natural glass from Milos was transported over long distances and used for razor-sharp "stone tools" well before farming began and later: "There is no early farming village in the Nea…
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3000BC Qatna Archaeological Park · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
3000BC Avebury Henge and Stone Circles · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
One of the best-known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to contemporary pagans. Constructed over several hundred years in the third millennium BC, during …
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3000BC -+ Ebla, Syria · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
3000BC Tomb of the Eagles · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
3000BC -Q Devil's Arrows · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
The standing stone alignment known as the Devil's Arrows consists of some of the tallest standing stones in the United Kingdom. The southernmost of the three remaining stones is the second tallest in the UK. The monument is unusual in that it is located in a lowland setting.[1]
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3000BC Hypogeum of Ħal Saflieni, unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
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3000BC Brownshill Dolmen · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
3000BC ++ Cavan Burren Park · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
3000BC -+Q Cairnpapple Hill · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
3000BC Ringheiligtum Pömmelte · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
3000BC Thornborough Henges · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
3000BC Castlerigg stone circle · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
3000BC Belas Knap · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
3000BC Coetan Arthur · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
There are a number of ancient monuments showing signs of early occupation, including an Iron Age cliff fort, prehistoric settlements, a prehistoric defensive wall, signs of various neolithic field systems and Coetan Arthur (Arthur’s Quoit) burial chamber.[4][5] There is a traditi…
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2800BC Maeshowe · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
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2700BC Giant's Ring, Ballynahatty · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
2500BC ...RR Sumar City Ur unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
2500BC Grime's Graves · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Neolithic flint mining complex in Norfolk, England. It lies 8 km (5.0 mi) north east from Brandon, Suffolk in the East of England. It was worked between c. 2600 and c. 2300 BCE, although production may have continued through the Bronze and Iron Ages and later, owing to the low co…
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700BC Barbury Castle · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Hillforts date from the late Iron Age. Barbury was in use during the Roman occupation of the area, and archaeological investigations have shown evidence of a number of buildings, indicating a village or military garrison at this time.
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2500BC Stonehenge unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
The word was first used in 1849 by the British antiquarian Algernon Herbert in reference to Stonehenge[2][3] and derives from the Ancient Greek words "mega" for great and "lithos" for stone. Most extant megaliths were erected between the Neolithic period (although earlier Mesolit…
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2500BC Ville-ès-Nouaux · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
2500BC Poliochne · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
2500BC Skarkos · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
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2500BC Le Petit-Chasseur · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
2500BC Stanton Drew stone circles · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
considered to be one of the largest Neolithic monuments to have been built. The date of construction is not known, but is thought to be between 3000 and 2000 BCE, which places it in the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age.[1]
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2500BC Greek pyramids · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
2000BC Vrokastro · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
2000BC -+ Monkodonja · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
2000BC Ancient Mycenae, near Nafplio unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
ga In the second millennium BC, Mycenae was one of the major centres of Greek civilization, a military stronghold which dominated much of southern Greece, Crete, the Cyclades and parts of southwest Anatolia. The period of Greek history from about 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is calle…
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8000BC Byblos · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
The area is believed to have been first settled between 8800 and 7000 BC[1] and continuously inhabited since 5000 BC.[2] During its history, Byblos was part of numerous cultures including Egyptian, Phoenician, Assyrian, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Genoese, Mamluk and Ottoman. Ur…
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400AD Eketorp · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
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2000BC Giza pyramid complex · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
8000BC Museum of Anatolian Civilizations · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
2000BC National Museum of Iran · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
richest and largest collection of Iranian antiquities in the world.[3][4] It is the world's most important institution for Iranian history and one of the most comprehensive museums globally, home to over 3 million artifacts.[5]
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2000BC Naveta d'Es Tudons · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
nearby, abandoned quarry turned into art colony
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2000BC -- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
among the largest and earliest Neolithic flint mines which survive in north-western Europe, located close to the Walloon village of Spiennes, southeast of Mons, Belgium.[1] The mines were active during the mid and late Neolithic between 4,300 and 2,200 BC. Declared to be "remarka…
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2000BC Library of Ashurbanipal, Nineveh, Assyrian Empire · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
( ) Tales of Ashurbanipal survived in the cultural memory of the Near East for centuries after the decline of Assyrian power in the region. He is almost certainly identifiable with the figure "Asnappar", mentioned in the Biblical Book of Ezra (4:10).[64] It is also either Esarhad…
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2000BC ... Shengavit (site) · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
It was inhabited during a series of settlement phases from approximately 3000 BC cal to 2500 BC cal in the Kura–Araxes (Shengavitian) period of the Early Bronze Age and irregularly re-used until 2200 BC cal. The town occupied an area of six hectares. It appears that Shengavit was…
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2000BC South Tyrol Archeological Museum · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
the home of the preserved body of Ötzi the Iceman.[1]
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2000BC --XXr Harran · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
2000BC Vučedol Archaeological site · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
It is estimated that the site had once been home to about 3,000 inhabitants, making it one of the largest and most important European centers of its time.[1]
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2000BC Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
2000BC ++ Termantia · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
During the Iron Age it was a Celtiberian hill fort. It resisted the Romans, and was allied to Numantia during the Celtiberian Wars. It is believed that the Romans gave it the status of municipium. The original name was Romanised as Termes or Termantia.[1] It is remarkable for its…
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2000BC Ring of Brodgar · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
2000BC King Arthur's Hall · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
In the absence of any archaeological finds, its origin and use is only speculative.[4] A similar enclosure exists in Brittany which was a Bronze Age cremation site, but a similar rampart construction at Lough Gur in Ireland suggests an earlier Neolithic date.[4] It has even been …
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2000BC +QQ Hartashen Megalithic Avenue · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
It has been attributed in recent years to anti-tank defences constructed in the Second World War, but recent research favours an interpretation that the site, if not its arrangement, dates to the Neolithic or Bronze Age and perhaps shares a context with the Carnac stones of Franc…
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2000BC Hypogeum of Cala Sant Vicenç · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
2000BC --+ Hattusa unesco · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age during two distinct periods. capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age during two distinct periods. TODO_
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2000BC Archaeological Museum of Chora · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
collections focus on the Mycenaean civilization, particularly from the excavations at the Palace of Nestor and other regions of Messenia.
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2000BC -+ Damascus National Museum · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
It displays various important artifacts, relics and major finds most notably from Mari, Ebla and Ugarit,[2] three of Syria's most important ancient archaeological sites.
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2000BC -+ Mari, Syria · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
2000BC QQ Trapeza, Crete · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
4000BC + Alepotrypa Cave · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Used for burial and cult purposes, it is one of the largest burial sites ever found in Europe. Two adult human skeletons dubbed "the Embracing Skeletons of Alepotrypa" were found at the site, from a burial dating to the 4th millennium BC; remains from at least 170 separate person…
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2000BC --++QQ Mycenaean Acropolis of Gla · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
It is suggested that the land dominated by the citadel of Gla served as the "bread basket" of the Mycenaean world. This is supported by the fact that Lake Kopais, the largest lake in southern Greece, had been drained by a system of dams and canals (one of the most astonishing ach…
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2000BC Q Mycenaean Acropolis of Aghios Andreas at Sifnos · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
2000BC La Almoloya · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
2000BC The Bastide of Totana · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
t is one of the largest villages (4,5 ha. as a minimum estimate) of the early Bronze Age in continental Europe and is considered one of the most important settlements in recent European Prehistory. 1] It was part of the network of argaric nerve centers, with incipient urbanism an…
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2000BC Kilmartin Glen · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
2000BC -+ Amman Citadel · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Jordan Archeological Museum The Amman Citadel is considered to be among the world's oldest continuously inhabited places.[2][3] Evidence of inhabitance since the Neolithic period has been found and the hill was fortified during the Bronze Age (1800 BCE). The hill became the capit…
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6000BC Neolithic Dwellings Museum · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
6000BC ++ Ingeborg Hoy Jæstutte, megalith · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
major archeological site on north end, closed to public People have lived and hunted on Samsø since the ice receded at the end of the last Ice Age. Samsø first became an island approximately 9,000 years ago and there are several traces like dolmens, burial mounds, passage graves,…
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2000BC Hirbemerdon Tepe · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
2000BC ++ Antipatris · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
The Bronze Age saw the construction of defensive walls, 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) to 3.5 metres (11 ft) wide, and a series of palaces. One of these is described as an Egyptian governor residence of the 15th century BC, and within, an array of cuneiform tablets were found. Philistine wa…
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1900BC Nuraghe Santu Antine · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
1900BC Kokino · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
1600BC Minoan Eruption · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
Fira Archaeological Museum of Thera
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1600BC Kommos (Crete) · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
not sure if site open to public The partially excavated site is located 5 km north of Matala, adjacent to Kommos Beach. It is not open to the public, but is visible from the beach.
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1600BC Zakros · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
It is regarded as one of the six Minoan palaces, and its protected harbor and strategic location made it an important commercial hub for trade to the east. The town was dominated by the Palace of Zakro, originally built around 1900 BC, rebuilt around 1600 BC, and destroyed around…
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1600BC Akrotiri (prehistoric city) · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
ga Cycladic Bronze Age settlement on the volcanic Greek island of Santorini (Thera). The name comes from the nearby village of Akrotiri. The settlement was destroyed in the Theran eruption sometime in the 16th century BCE[2] and buried in volcanic ash, which preserved the remains…
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1500BC Papeloze Kerk · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier
nearby neolithic museum
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1500BC Kültepe · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps
1500BC Lloma de Betxí · PreClassical, 500BC and Earlier Open in Google Maps

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