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The best-preserved Roman provincial city in the world outside Italy and the finest illustration of Roman urbanism in…
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Palestine
Jericho — Tell es-Sultan
The tell rises quietly at the edge of the modern city, a low brown mound above the palm…
Israel
Jerusalem
The most contested sacred city in human history and the only place on earth that is simultaneously the…
Bolivia
Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
The most complete surviving system of Jesuit missionary communities in South America and the birthplace of a living…
China
Jiaohe — The Ancient City Carved from a Plateau on the Silk Road
Jiaohe is structurally unlike any other ancient city on earth. Builders did not construct walls and stack stones…
Iran
Jiroft — The Bronze Age Civilization Found by Grave Robbers
In January 2001, the Halil River in the Jiroft region of southeastern Iran flooded catastrophically, stripping away riverbanks…
El Salvador
Joya de Cerén — The Pompeii of the Americas
When the Loma Caldera volcano erupted around 660 AD, a small Maya village in what is now El…
Thailand
Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex — Thailand UNESCO WHS 2021
A 482,254-hectare protected wilderness on the Thai-Myanmar border, Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex is Thailand largest national park and…
Tunisia
Kairouan
The fourth holiest city in Islam and the city that brought Islam to the western Mediterranean — Kairouan…
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