Canada · Zone
SGang Gwaay Llnagaay
The most intact abandoned Haida village in existence, with approximately 32 standing mortuary and house poles still in…
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Uzbekistan · Zone
Shah-i-Zinda
A medieval necropolis of approximately 20 mausoleums on a hillside in Samarkand, whose facades are covered in cobalt…
Iran · Zone
Shahr-e Sukhteh
The Burnt City of the Sistan Desert: a 150-hectare Bronze Age metropolis that produced the world's oldest board…
Iran · Zone
Shahr-i Sokhta — The Burnt City
A Bronze Age desert city in eastern Iran where archaeologists found the world's oldest artificial eye, early brain…
Uzbekistan · Zone
Shakhrisabz — Timur’s Birthplace and the Wonder of the Timurid World
In the Kashkadarya valley of southern Uzbekistan, approximately 80 km south of Samarkand, the city of Shakhrisabz was…
China · ruins
Shangdu / Xanadu (XIII sec.): la capitale estiva del Grande Khan tra le steppe mongole (Zhenglan Banner, Cina)
Nelle steppe della Mongolia Interna giacciono le rovine di Shangdu — la mitica Xanadu dei poeti occidentali, capitale…
Iran · Area
Shapur Cave
A seven-metre Sasanian portrait carved from stone in a Zagros Mountain cave, toppled after empire's fall and restored…
Iran · Zone
Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System
A two-thousand-year-old network of dams, tunnels and canals on the Karun River, built by Achaemenid and Sassanid engineers…
Iran · Zone
Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System — The Achaemenid and Sassanid Water Engineering Marvel of Iran
One of the most ambitious hydraulic engineering projects of antiquity — an Achaemenid-era irrigation system expanded under the…
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