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Apadana Palace
Apadana Palace (apadāna, audience hall) at Persepolis, Iran: hypostyle hall begun by Darius I, completed by Xerxes I, with 72 columns about 19 m high and stairway reliefs of 23 gift-bearing delegations of subject peoples.
Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots
UNESCO World Heritage serial property in Armenia, inscribed 2000: Echmiatsin Cathedral (301-303), St Gayane, St Hripsime, St Shoghakat churches, and the ruined 7th-century Zvartnots temple.
Chega Sofla
Chega Sofla (تل چگاسفلی) is a prehistoric settlement and cemetery in Khuzestan, Iran, occupied in the fifth millennium BCE and known for the oldest brick-built tombs documented.
Dableis
Dableis (Greek Δαβλεῖς, Dablis, mansio Dablae) was a Roman road station in Bithynia on the Nikaia–Ankyra road, near Himmetoğlu, Turkey, later identified with the Byzantine bishopric Numerika.
Gur-i Shapur
Gur-i Shapur, the Shapur cave near Bishapur in Fars, Iran, holds a 6.7-metre stalagmite statue of Shapur I; a Barrington Atlas site, UNESCO component, re-erected in 1957.
Ningal temple (Khorsabad)
Ningal temple, Khorsabad: one of six 8th-century BCE palace temples of Sargon II at Dur-Sharrukin, Iraq, dedicated to the consort of the moon god Sin; excavated by Place and the Oriental Institute, with glazed-brick and bronze decoration.
Pust-i Gau
Pust-i Gau (Pusht-i Gau), archaeological site with fortified citadel in Chakhansur District, Nimroz, Afghanistan, 10 km north of Chakhansur; the name also denotes the Parthian-Sasanian ruined fort Bāghak near Rudbar on the Helmand.
Sancaklı Kalesi
Sancaklı Kalesi, also called Ada Tepe or Adakale, is an archaeological site in Karşıyaka, İzmir, on Mount Yamanlar's slopes; a defense point of ancient Smyrna, distinct from Ottoman Sancak Kale at İnciraltı.