Egypt · Area
Abu Mena (V sec.): la città di pellegrinaggio cristiana del deserto egiziano (Abu Mena, Egitto)
Nel deserto a sud-ovest di Alessandria sorse, attorno alla tomba di san Mena, una delle più importanti città…
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Egypt · Monument
Abu Simbel
Ramesses II cut two temples into the living rock of Nubia to assert Egyptian dominion over the south…
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Egypt · Zone
Abydos
One of Egypt's oldest cities and the burial ground of its first kings — a site where the…
Greece · Monument
Acropolis — Athens
The Parthenon and its companion temples on the Acropolis of Athens set the architectural vocabulary of columns, pediments…
Belize · Zone
Actun Tunichil Muknal
A sacred Maya cave in the Belizean jungle where a river disappears into the mountain and, one hour…
Eritrea · Zone
Adulis
The principal Red Sea port of the Aksumite Empire — one of the four great powers of the…
Oman · Zone
Aflaj Irrigation Systems of Oman
Five living examples of an irrigation tradition two-and-a-half millennia old — where water, carved from the earth by…
Denmark · Area
Aggersborg
Denmark's largest Viking ring fortress, built around 980 to control the Limfjord strait, now a UNESCO World Heritage…
Sicilia · Zone
Agrigento — Valle dei Templi
Seven Doric temples raised by the Greek colony of Akragas survive on a ridge above Agrigento, among them…
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