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The submerged city of Pavlopetri (Greek: Παυλοπέτρι) is found in Vatika Bay, off the coast of southern Laconia in Peloponnese, Greece. It is about 5,000 years old, making it the oldest submerged city known in the world. [citation needed] Pavlopetri is unique in having an almost complete town plan, including streets, buildings, and tombs.
Also, a little later, R. Zahn excavated in the locality of Potamos, near Akrotiri, under the auspices of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens. The extensive modern excavation was started in 1967 by Spyridon Marinatos and revealed the full value of this site.
In July 2012, it was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [3] Çatalhöyük overlooks the Konya Plain, southeast of the present-day city of Konya (ancient Iconium) in Turkey, approximately 140 km (87 mi) from the twin-coned volcano of Mount Hasan. The eastern settlement forms a mound that would have risen about 20 m (66 ft) above the ...
It is the oldest example of prehistoric music. [38] Europe, Baltic: Lithuania: 43–41: Šnaukštai near Gargždai: A hammer made from reindeer horn similar to those used by the Bromme culture was found in 2016. The discovery pushed back the earliest evidence of human presence in Lithuania by 30,000 years, i.e. to before the last glacial period ...
Jerusalem (Western Wall Tunnel, City of David, Pool of Bethesda, Southern Wall excavations and its Jerusalem pilgrim road and many more in the Old City of Jerusalem and outside the old city...) Khirbat al-Minya
Located in Aleppo Governorate, five stone towers were found at Tell Qaramel; dated to the period from the middle of the 11th millennium BCE to about 9650 BCE, making them the oldest structures of this type in the world. Göbeklitepe: Turkey: Asia: 9500-7500 BCE Unknown/likely temple Oldest temple in the world. Durankulak: Bulgaria: Europe: 5500 ...
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto: Cultural: 712 Japan: Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities) Cultural: 688 Lithuania: Vilnius Historic Centre (F) Cultural: 541 Luxembourg: City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and Fortifications (F) Cultural: 699 Mexico: Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the ...
The Tower of Jericho (Arabic: برج أريحا) is an 8.5-metre-tall (28 ft) stone structure built in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period around 8000 BC. [1] It is part of Tell es-Sultan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the State of Palestine, in the city of Jericho, consisting of the remains of the oldest fortified city in the world.