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Also known as Easter Island, Rapa Nui has been a World Heritage Site since 1995. The stone statues on Rapa Nui are threatened by sea level rises and coastal damage from storms. [9] An increase in ocean swells and wave heights causes undercutting and erosion of rock faces and loss of archaeological remains. [10]
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 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.
Calibrated Carbon 14 dates for Çatalhöyük, as of 2013. [1]Çatalhöyük (English: Chatalhoyuk / ˌ tʃ ɑː t ɑː l ˈ h uː j ʊ k / cha-tal-HOO-yuhk; Turkish pronunciation: [tʃaˈtaɫhœjyc]; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük; from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") is a tell (a mounded accretion due to long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic ...
Stone and bone artifacts mark the oldest archaeological site in the Caribbean. [82] Americas, Caribbean: Puerto Rico: 6,000 BP: Angostura site: Carbon dating of burial site [83] Arctic, North America: Greenland: 4,000 BP: Saqqaq: Saqqaq culture was the first of several waves of settlement from northern Canada and from Scandinavia. [84] Arctic ...
The climate was far more welcoming in ancient times when the Hamun Lake, near which the city was located, was much greater in size, and there was a lot of marshland in the area. Also, Dahan-e Gholaman (550 BC–330 BC), a major Achaemenid center and archaeological site, is located only 50 km to the northeast. [14]
The city is one of the New 7 Wonders of the World and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [6] The area around Petra has been inhabited from as early as 7000 BC, [7] and was settled by the Nabataeans, a nomadic Arab people, in the 4th century BC. Petra would later become the capital city of the Nabataean Kingdom in the second century BC.
Djenné-Djenno (also Jenne-Jeno; / ˈ dʒ ɛ n iː dʒ ʌ ˌ n oʊ /) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the Niger River Valley in the country of Mali.Literally translated to "ancient Djenné", it is the original site of both Djenné and Mali and is considered to be among the oldest urbanized centers and the best-known archaeological sites in West Africa.