Uzbekistan
Shah-i-Zinda
A medieval necropolis of approximately 20 mausoleums on a hillside in Samarkand, whose facades are covered in cobalt…
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Iran
Shahr-e Sukhteh
The Burnt City of the Sistan Desert: a 150-hectare Bronze Age metropolis that produced the world's oldest board…
Iran
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
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…
Japan
Shirakawa-go and Gokayama – Virtual Tour 360°
The most isolated mountain villages in Japan — the gassho-zukuri (“praying hands construction”) farmhouses of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama…
Japan
Shrines and Temples of Nikko – Virtual Tour 360°
The most extravagantly decorated complex of religious buildings in Japan — a mountain valley in Tochigi Prefecture filled…
Iran
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
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…
South Africa
Sibudu Cave
A large sandstone rock shelter north of Durban containing the world's oldest known bedding (compacted aromatic plant mattresses…
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