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Akītu-Temple of Ištar
Akītu-Temple of Ištar: the New Year's House (bīt akīti) of Ištar of Nineveh, attested from Tukultī-Ninurta I's reign, unlocated, renovated by Ashurbanipal, used in his Tebētu akītu festival.
Al Zubarah Archaeological Site
Al Zubarah Archaeological Site: abandoned walled pearling and trading town in northwest Qatar, founded by Utub merchants from Kuwait, destroyed 1811, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2013, Qatar's first.
Allianoi
Allianoi (Paşa Ilıcası): ancient Graeco-Roman spa town about 20 km northeast of Pergamon, western Turkey, with hundreds of Roman surgical instruments; possibly an early group medical practice, submerged by the Yortanlı Dam in 2010.
Aq Chapar 1
Aq Chapar 1 (BALL-43), also Aq Chapur 1, a Kushan-period (1st c. BC-3rd c. AD) circular monumental building 130 m across in the Dashli Oasis, northern Afghanistan, surveyed in 1973 by Sarianidi.
Bavian/Khinnis
Bavian/Khinnis (Khinis, ancient Khunusa) is a Neo-Assyrian rock-relief complex of Sennacherib, around 690 BC, at the head of his canal from the Gomel River to Nineveh, with the Bavian inscriptions and Jerwan aqueduct.
Bisotun
Bisotun, also spelled Behistun, is an archaeological site in Kermanshah province, western Iran, whose key monument is Darius I's trilingual cuneiform inscription of 521 BC, a key to deciphering cuneiform.
Caeciliana
Caeciliana (Ceciliana, Greek Kaikilia) was a Roman city in Kyrrhestika on the right bank of the Euphrates, Syria, between Zeugma and Hierapolis, on the Tabula Peutingeriana; not securely identified, possibly at Qal'at an-Najm.
Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Judean Lowlands as a Microcosm of the Land of the Caves
Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin, a 2014 UNESCO World Heritage Site in Israel's Judean Lowlands (Shfela), a 'city under a city' of over a thousand man-made chalk caves used from the Iron Age to the Crusades.
Dukkan-i Daud
Dukkan-i Daud (دکان داوود, "shop of David") is an Achaemenid-era rock-cut tomb in the Zagros mountains of Iran's Kermanshah province, venerated by the Ahl-e Haqq as a site of David.
Ea temple (Khorsabad)
The Ea temple at Khorsabad was a small sanctuary dedicated to Ea, god of water and wisdom, on the palace terrace of Dur-Sharrukin, Sargon II's capital.
Faya Palaeolandscape
Faya Palaeolandscape (Jebel Faya, جبل الفاية), a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 2025 in Sharjah, UAE, preserving Stone Age occupation evidence from 210,000 to 6,000 years ago across 18 archaeological layers, including FAY-NE1 and Buhais Rockshelter.
Gul Khanan Murdah
Gul Khanan Murdah (Gol Ḵānān Morda), Iron Age III graveyard in the Eyvān plain, Ilām province, Luristan, Iran; 80 stone-lined tombs excavated in 1978 by Louis Vanden Berghe's Belgian mission; not the Pakistani locality Gul Khanan.
Guyum
Guyum: rock-relief site in Fars, Iran, with a Sasanian panel of King Bahram II (276-293) above a spring near Shiraz; an unfinished, possibly non-official investiture or veneration scene.
Iron Gates Wall (Darband, Uzbekistan)
Darband Wall, or Iron Gates Wall, is a 1.1 km ancient linear fortification in Baysun District, southern Uzbekistan, at the Bactria-Sogdiana border pass; radiocarbon dating places construction in the 3rd century BC with Kushan-era rebuilding.
Khane Gauhar
Khane Gauhar, a Buddhist shrine site near Darwishan in Helmand province, Afghanistan, recorded by the Helmand Sistan Project; mudbrick stupa 11 m across with monastic caves, possibly the westernmost early Buddhist structure.
Khoramrud
Khoramrud (Khorramrud, Khuramrud) is a Parthian-period cemetery site in the Dailaman district, Gilan, Iran, excavated in 1960 by Tokyo University's expedition under Namio Egami; 17 looted tombs in Area A, one unlooted tomb, published in Dailaman II (1966).
Khorsabad Residence L
Khorsabad Residence L: a large dignitary's residence at Dur-Sharrukin, at the foot of Sargon II's palace on the citadel, identified by a pavement slab inscription as the house of Sîn-aḫu-uṣur, grand vizier and brother of Sargon II.
New Palace at Assur
New Palace at Assur (P2): Middle Assyrian royal palace built by Tukulti-Ninurta I on a roughly 27,000-29,000 m2 terrace in Assur's northwest, named é.lugal.umun.kur.kur.ra, later abandoned.
Orsologiakos/Rosolodiacus
Orsologiakos/Rosolodiacus (Orosologia, Rosolodiaco), a Roman road station in Galatia, Turkey, cited BAtlas 63 B1, identified with Deliler Çiftliği, Ankara Province; attested by Ptolemy, the Antonine Itinerary, and the 333 AD Bordeaux Pilgrim.
Paikuli
Paikuli (Peykulî) is a ruined Sasanian square tower in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, built by King Narseh (r. 293–302/3) with a bilingual Middle Persian and Parthian inscription commemorating his victory over Bahram III.
Qal’at Salah El-Din/Fortress of Saladin
Qal’at Salah El-Din (قلعة صلاح الدين), Fortress of Saladin, Sahyun, Château de Saône: medieval castle in Latakia Governorate, Syria, with Byzantine, Frankish, and Ayyubid phases; UNESCO World Heritage 2006 with Crac des Chevaliers, in Danger since 2013.