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#	Name	Type	Where	Era
1	Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx	On land	Egypt	2600-2500 BCE
2	Saqqara and the Step Pyramid of Djoser	On land	Egypt	2670 BCE
3	Karnak and Luxor temples	On land	Egypt	2000-30 BCE
4	Valley of the Kings	On land	Egypt	1539-1075 BCE
5	Abu Simbel	On land	Egypt	1264 BCE
6	Amarna	On land	Egypt	1346 BCE
7	Deir el-Medina	On land	Egypt	1550-1070 BCE
8	Dendera Temple of Hathor	On land	Egypt	54 BCE onward
9	Philae	On land	Egypt	380 BCE onward
10	Kerma	On land	Sudan	2500-1500 BCE
11	Meroe pyramids	On land	Sudan	300 BCE-350 CE
12	Aksum	On land	Ethiopia	100-940 CE
13	Lalibela	On land	Ethiopia	1100s-1200s CE
14	Great Zimbabwe	On land	Zimbabwe	1100-1450 CE
15	Carthage	On land	Tunisia	814 BCE-698 CE
16	Leptis Magna	On land	Libya	600s BCE-600s CE
17	Timbuktu	On land	Mali	1200s-1500s CE
18	Djenne-Djenno	On land	Mali	250 BCE-1400 CE
19	Gobekli Tepe	On land	Turkey	9600-8000 BCE
20	Catalhoyuk	On land	Turkey	7100-5700 BCE
21	Jericho (Tell es-Sultan)	On land	West Bank	9000 BCE onward
22	Uruk	On land	Iraq	4000-3100 BCE peak
23	Ur	On land	Iraq	2100 BCE peak
24	Babylon	On land	Iraq	1800-300 BCE
25	Nineveh	On land	Iraq	700-612 BCE peak
26	Hattusa	On land	Turkey	1650-1200 BCE
27	Troy	On land	Turkey	3000 BCE-500 CE
28	Ephesus	On land	Turkey	1000 BCE-600s CE
29	Ebla	On land	Syria	3000-1600 BCE
30	Ugarit	On land	Syria	1450-1185 BCE
31	Mari	On land	Syria	2900-1759 BCE
32	Petra	On land	Jordan	300 BCE-600s CE
33	Palmyra	On land	Syria	100 BCE-273 CE peak
34	Baalbek	On land	Lebanon	1st-3rd century CE
35	Masada	On land	Israel	37-31 BCE
36	Persepolis	On land	Iran	518 BCE onward
37	Chogha Zanbil	On land	Iran	1250 BCE
38	Shahr-e Sukhteh (Burnt City)	On land	Iran	3200-1800 BCE
39	Knossos	On land	Crete, Greece	1900-1375 BCE
40	Akrotiri	On land	Santorini, Greece	1600s BCE
41	Mycenae	On land	Greece	1600-1100 BCE
42	Acropolis of Athens	On land	Greece	447-432 BCE
43	Delphi	On land	Greece	800 BCE-390s CE
44	Olympia	On land	Greece	776 BCE-393 CE
45	Delos	On land	Greece	900-88 BCE peak
46	Pompeii	On land	Italy	600s BCE-79 CE
47	Herculaneum	On land	Italy	79 CE
48	Roman Forum and Colosseum	On land	Italy	500 BCE-400s CE
49	Ostia Antica	On land	Italy	300s BCE-800s CE
50	Paestum	On land	Italy	600-450 BCE
51	Valley of the Temples	On land	Sicily, Italy	500s-400s BCE
52	Etruscan tombs of Cerveteri and Tarquinia	On land	Italy	900-100 BCE
53	Su Nuraxi	On land	Sardinia, Italy	1600 BCE onward
54	Ggantija	On land	Gozo, Malta	3600 BCE
55	Tyre	On land	Lebanon	2700 BCE onward
56	Byblos	On land	Lebanon	5000 BCE onward
57	Merida (Emerita Augusta)	On land	Spain	25 BCE onward
58	Diocletian's Palace	On land	Split, Croatia	305 CE
59	Stonehenge	On land	England	3000-1500 BCE
60	Avebury	On land	England	2600 BCE
61	Newgrange	On land	Ireland	3200 BCE
62	Skara Brae	On land	Orkney, Scotland	3180-2500 BCE
63	Carnac stones	On land	France	4500-3300 BCE
64	Lascaux Cave	On land	France	about 17,000 years ago
65	Varna Necropolis	On land	Bulgaria	4600 BCE
66	Hallstatt salt mines	On land	Austria	800-400 BCE
67	Biskupin	On land	Poland	730 BCE
68	Hedeby	On land	Germany	700s-1000s CE
69	Sutton Hoo	On land	England	625 CE
70	Hadrian's Wall	On land	England	122 CE
71	Mohenjo-daro	On land	Pakistan	2500-1900 BCE
72	Harappa	On land	Pakistan	3300-1300 BCE
73	Dholavira	On land	India	3000-1500 BCE
74	Lothal	On land	India	2400-1900 BCE
75	Mehrgarh	On land	Pakistan	7000-2600 BCE
76	Sanchi	On land	India	200s BCE onward
77	Taxila	On land	Pakistan	600 BCE-500 CE
78	Ajanta Caves	On land	India	200 BCE-480 CE
79	Ellora and the Kailasa Temple	On land	India	700s CE
80	Bamiyan Buddhas	On land	Afghanistan	500s CE
81	Merv	On land	Turkmenistan	500 BCE-1221 CE
82	Hampi	On land	India	1336-1565
83	Liangzhu	On land	China	3300-2300 BCE
84	Sanxingdui	On land	China	1200-1000 BCE
85	Yinxu (Anyang)	On land	China	1300-1046 BCE
86	Terracotta Army	On land	China	210 BCE
87	Great Wall of China	On land	China	700s BCE-1600s CE
88	Mogao Caves (Dunhuang)	On land	China	366-1300s CE
89	Xanadu (Shangdu)	On land	China	1256
90	Gyeongju	On land	South Korea	57 BCE-935 CE
91	Daisen Kofun	On land	Japan	400s CE
92	Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom	On land	Cambodia	802-1431
93	Bagan	On land	Myanmar	1044-1287
94	Borobudur	On land	Indonesia	800s CE
95	My Son	On land	Vietnam	300s-1200s CE
96	Ayutthaya	On land	Thailand	1351-1767
97	Caral	On land	Peru	3000-1800 BCE
98	Chavin de Huantar	On land	Peru	900-200 BCE
99	Nazca Lines	On land	Peru	500 BCE-500 CE
100	Chan Chan	On land	Peru	900-1470
101	Tiwanaku	On land	Bolivia	500-1000 CE
102	Cusco and Sacsayhuaman	On land	Peru	1400s
103	Machu Picchu	On land	Peru	about 1450
104	La Venta	On land	Mexico	1200-400 BCE
105	Monte Alban	On land	Mexico	500 BCE-800 CE
106	Teotihuacan	On land	Mexico	100 BCE-550 CE
107	Tenochtitlan and the Templo Mayor	On land	Mexico	1325-1521
108	El Mirador	On land	Guatemala	600 BCE-150 CE
109	Tikal	On land	Guatemala	300 BCE-900 CE
110	Palenque	On land	Mexico	200-800 CE
111	Copan	On land	Honduras	400-820 CE
112	Chichen Itza	On land	Mexico	600-1200
113	Cahokia	On land	Illinois, USA	1050-1350
114	Chaco Canyon	On land	New Mexico, USA	850-1250
115	Mesa Verde	On land	Colorado, USA	600-1300
116	L'Anse aux Meadows	On land	Newfoundland, Canada	about 1021 CE
117	Rapa Nui (Easter Island) moai	On land	Chile	1250-1500
118	Nan Madol	On land	Pohnpei, Micronesia	1180-1628
119	Budj Bim eel traps	On land	Victoria, Australia	6,600+ years ago
120	Taputapuatea	On land	Ra'iatea, French Polynesia	1000 CE onward
121	Thonis-Heracleion	Underwater	Abu Qir Bay, Egypt	600s BCE-700s CE
122	Canopus	Underwater	Abu Qir Bay, Egypt	500s BCE-700s CE
123	Alexandria royal quarter and Pharos	Underwater	Alexandria, Egypt	300s BCE-300s CE
124	Pavlopetri	Underwater	Laconia, Greece	2800-1100 BCE
125	Baia	Underwater	Bay of Naples, Italy	100 BCE-300s CE
126	Caesarea Maritima harbor	Underwater	Israel	22-10 BCE
127	Atlit Yam	Underwater	Off Haifa, Israel	6900-6300 BCE
128	Doggerland	Underwater	North Sea	until about 6500 BCE
129	Blinkerwall	Underwater	Baltic Sea, Germany	about 11,000 years ago
130	Uluburun shipwreck	Underwater	Off southern Turkey	1300s BCE
131	Antikythera shipwreck	Underwater	Greece	60s BCE
132	Kyrenia ship	Underwater	Cyprus	about 300 BCE
133	Black Sea shipwreck	Underwater	Off Bulgaria	about 400 BCE
134	Mahabalipuram offshore ruins	Underwater	Tamil Nadu, India	600s-800s CE
135	Dwarka offshore structures	Underwater	Gujarat, India	Disputed
136	Shicheng (Lion City)	Underwater	Qiandao Lake, China	200s-1600s CE
137	Yonaguni Monument	Underwater	Okinawa, Japan	Disputed
138	Sacred Cenote	Underwater	Chichen Itza, Mexico	800-1500s
139	Hoyo Negro (Sac Actun cave)	Underwater	Yucatan, Mexico	about 12,000-13,000 years ago
140	Lake Titicaca offerings	Underwater	Bolivia	500-1500s CE
141	Imhotep	Person	Egypt	2600s BCE
142	Khufu	Person	Egypt	reigned 2589-2566 BCE
143	Hatshepsut	Person	Egypt	reigned 1479-1458 BCE
144	Akhenaten	Person	Egypt	reigned 1353-1336 BCE
145	Nefertiti	Person	Egypt	1370-1330 BCE
146	Tutankhamun	Person	Egypt	reigned 1332-1323 BCE
147	Ramesses II	Person	Egypt	reigned 1279-1213 BCE
148	Cleopatra VII	Person	Egypt	69-30 BCE
149	Piye	Person	Kush	reigned 744-714 BCE
150	Amanirenas	Person	Kush	ruled about 40-10 BCE
151	Ezana	Person	Aksum	300s CE
152	Mansa Musa	Person	Mali	reigned 1312-1337
153	Hannibal	Person	Carthage	247-183 BCE
154	Gilgamesh	Person	Sumer	about 2700 BCE
155	Enheduanna	Person	Akkad	2285-2250 BCE
156	Sargon of Akkad	Person	Akkad	reigned 2334-2279 BCE
157	Hammurabi	Person	Babylon	reigned 1792-1750 BCE
158	Ashurbanipal	Person	Assyria	reigned 669-631 BCE
159	Nebuchadnezzar II	Person	Babylon	reigned 605-562 BCE
160	Cyrus the Great	Person	Persia	reigned 559-530 BCE
161	Darius I	Person	Persia	reigned 522-486 BCE
162	Zenobia	Person	Palmyra	240-after 274 CE
163	Herod the Great	Person	Judea	72-4 BCE
164	Homer	Person	Greece	700s BCE
165	Pericles	Person	Athens	495-429 BCE
166	Socrates	Person	Athens	470-399 BCE
167	Plato	Person	Athens	428-348 BCE
168	Aristotle	Person	Greece	384-322 BCE
169	Alexander the Great	Person	Macedon	356-323 BCE
170	Archimedes	Person	Syracuse	287-212 BCE
171	Hypatia	Person	Alexandria	355-415 CE
172	Julius Caesar	Person	Rome	100-44 BCE
173	Augustus	Person	Rome	63 BCE-14 CE
174	Pliny the Elder	Person	Rome	23-79 CE
175	Hadrian	Person	Rome	76-138 CE
176	Constantine the Great	Person	Rome	272-337 CE
177	Boudica	Person	Iceni, Britain	died 60 or 61 CE
178	Otzi the Iceman	Person	Copper Age Alps	about 3300 BCE
179	Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha)	Person	India	500s-400s BCE
180	Ashoka	Person	Maurya Empire	reigned 268-232 BCE
181	Kanishka	Person	Kushan Empire	100s CE
182	Krishnadevaraya	Person	Vijayanagara	reigned 1509-1529
183	Fu Hao	Person	Shang China	about 1200 BCE
184	Confucius	Person	China	551-479 BCE
185	Qin Shi Huang	Person	Qin China	259-210 BCE
186	Xuanzang	Person	Tang China	602-664 CE
187	Kublai Khan	Person	Mongol Empire	1215-1294
188	Queen Seondeok	Person	Silla, Korea	reigned 632-647
189	Himiko	Person	Japan	about 170-248 CE
190	Suryavarman II	Person	Khmer Empire	reigned 1113-1150
191	Jayavarman VII	Person	Khmer Empire	reigned 1181-1218
192	Anawrahta	Person	Pagan kingdom	reigned 1044-1077
193	K'inich Janaab Pakal	Person	Palenque, Maya	603-683 CE
194	Jasaw Chan K'awiil I	Person	Tikal, Maya	reigned 682-734
195	Moctezuma II	Person	Aztec Empire	1466-1520
196	Pachacuti	Person	Inca Empire	reigned 1438-1471
197	Atahualpa	Person	Inca Empire	1502-1533
198	Leif Erikson	Person	Norse	about 970-1020
199	Hotu Matu'a	Person	Rapa Nui	about 1200
200	Isokelekel	Person	Pohnpei	about 1628
201	Pergamon	On land	Turkey	281-133 BCE peak
202	Hagia Sophia	On land	Istanbul, Turkey	537 CE
203	Sigiriya	On land	Sri Lanka	477-495 CE
204	Nabta Playa	On land	Egypt	7500-3500 BCE
205	Mapungubwe	On land	South Africa	1075-1220 CE
206	Gunung Padang	On land	West Java, Indonesia	Disputed
207	Port Royal	Underwater	Jamaica	1655-1692
208	Otztal Alps (Tisenjoch)	On land	Italy-Austria border	about 3300 BCE
209	Atlantis	Legend	Beyond the Pillars of Hercules	Plato, about 360 BCE
210	El Dorado	Legend	Colombia	Spanish accounts, 1500s
211	Mu and Lemuria	Legend	Pacific and Indian Oceans	1864 (Lemuria), 1926 (Mu)
212	Lyonesse	Legend	Off Land's End, England	Medieval Arthurian tales
213	Ys	Legend	Bay of Douarnenez, France	Breton folklore
214	Kitezh	Legend	Lake Svetloyar, Russia	Russian folklore, 1700s texts
215	Iram of the Pillars (Ubar)	Legend	Southern Arabia	The Quran and Arabian tales
216	Hy-Brasil	Legend	West of Ireland	Irish legend; on sea charts until 1865