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Ampass early Christian Church
Ampass early Christian Church: fifth-century CE church under the Gothic parish church of Ampass near Innsbruck, Austria, also called the church of St. John on the Palmbühel; identified by an excavated memoria and reliquary vault, with parallels at Säben.
Amphiareion
Amphiareion (Αμφιάρειο), sanctuary of the healing and oracular hero Amphiaraos at Oropos on the Attica-Boiotia border, founded late 5th century BC, famed for incubation, a 110 m stoa, and the Amphiareia games.
Amphissa Tholos
The Amphissa Tholos is an intact Mycenaean tholos tomb at Amfissa in Phocis, Central Greece, excavated in 2014 and dated to the 13th to 11th century BC.
Amphitheater at Castrum Rauracense
Amphitheater at Castrum Rauracense (Kaiseraugst): a Late Roman military amphitheater discovered in 2021 next to the castrum on the Rhine, Switzerland; 56 × 42.66 m elliptical arena, stone podium wall, wooden stands, built circa 4th century, probably by legio I Martia.
Amphitheater Birten
The Amphitheater Birten is a Roman earth-and-timber amphitheater in the Birten district of Xanten, Germany, built in the 1st century AD beside the legionary fortress Vetera.
Amphitheater of Alba Fucens
Amphitheater of Alba Fucens: 1st-century AD Roman amphitheater at the Latin colony of Alba Fucens, Abruzzo, Italy; carved into the San Pietro hillside, about 96 x 79 m exterior, funded by testament of Tiberius's praetorian prefect Q. Naevius Cordus Sutorius Macro.
Amphitheater of Anazarbos
Amphitheater of Anazarbos (Anazarbus, Anavarza): small Roman amphitheatre, 83 x 62 m, in Cilicia, Turkey; one of only three attested in Asia Minor; stone-built, dismantled, site of martyrdoms.
Amphitheater of Dura-Europos
Amphitheater of Dura-Europos, Roman amphitheater at the edge of the military camp in Dura-Europos, Syria. Yale excavators dated it to the 210s CE; Simon James places a military presence from the 180s, with the building possibly serving civilians too.
Amphitheater of Thizica
The Amphitheater of Thizica is a small Roman amphitheater at the ancient town of Thizica, identified with Henchir Techga near Mateur in northern Tunisia, seating about 3,200 spectators.
Amphithéâtre Gallo-Romain
An amphithéâtre gallo-romain (Gallo-Roman amphitheatre) is a Roman entertainment building in Gaul, with seating around a central arena for gladiatorial fights, beast hunts, and executions.
Amphitheatre of El Jem (Tunisia)
Roman amphitheatre at El Jem, Tunisia, ancient Thysdrus, built around 238 AD, likely under Gordian I; 148 x 122 m, about 35,000 seats, free-standing stone construction, UNESCO World Heritage since 1979.
Amphitheatrum Castrense
Amphitheatrum Castrense (Anfiteatro Castrense), an early 3rd-century Roman amphitheatre built under Elagabalus at the Sessorian palace, Rome; incorporated into the Aurelian Walls in 271 and one of two surviving amphitheatres in the city.
Amursky Cosmopark
Космопарк «Амурский» (Amursky Cosmopark) is an indoor space-themed entertainment and education center in Blagoveshchensk, Russia, opened November 2025 at Tribuna Hall; first such park in the Far East, founded by Tatiana Kapustina, with VR attractions and over 10,000 early visitors.
Amusement park
Amusement park: outdoor entertainment facility with rides, games, and attractions; origins in European pleasure grounds and Coney Island, defined also by theme-park strand after Disneyland 1955 and ASTM-based ride safety oversight.
Anabucis
Anabucis, an ancient fortified post (presidium) in Cyrenaica, Libya, on the coastal road 25 Roman miles east of the Arae Philenorum; known from the Antonine Itinerary, Tabula Peutingeriana, and Ravenna Cosmography, tentatively identified with el-Agheila.
Anahita Temple
Anahita Temple (Persian معبد آناهیتا) names two Iranian stone monuments, at Kangavar and Bishapur, popularly attributed to the goddess Anahita; neither identification is proven, and Kangavar is now often dated to the late Sasanian era.
Anaktoron at Pantalika
Anaktoron at Pantalika: megalithic multi-room building on the Pantalica acropolis, Sortino, Sicily, named by Paolo Orsi. Debated Bronze Age princely palace with Mycenaean influence, later Byzantine reoccupation.
Anastasian Wall
Anastasian Wall (Ἀναστάσειον Τεῖχος), or Long Walls of Thrace: Byzantine linear fortification built under Anastasius I (491–518) from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, about 65 km west of Constantinople, to block Bulgar raids; penetrated in 559, abandoned before 626.
Anavadapati Mound
Anavadapati Mound: earthworks at Anavadapati (Anavada village), Patan district, Gujarat, listed by the ASI as the excavated Sahastralinga Talao, a Solanki-era tank near Rani-ki-vav.
Anavarza Kalesi
Anavarza Kalesi (Anavarza Castle) is the medieval fortress atop the limestone ridge of ancient Anazarbus (Caesarea), near Dilekkaya, Kozan, Adana, Türkiye. A Roman-Byzantine-Armenian stronghold and Rubenid royal residence, destroyed by the Mamluks in 1375; the ancient city is on Türkiye's UNESCO Tentative List (2014).
Ancient Agora of Athens
The Ancient Agora of Athens was the civic center of ancient Athens, northwest of the Acropolis, in use from the 6th century BC to the 6th century AD.
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe: transnational UNESCO World Heritage serial property, 93 beech forest components in 18 countries, inscribed 2007, criterion (ix), 99,947.81 ha.
Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains
Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains (武当山古建筑群), a UNESCO World Heritage Taoist palace and temple ensemble in Hubei, China, inscribed 1994; Ming apogee under Emperor Zhu Di with 9 palaces, 36 nunneries, 72 temples; bronze shrines of 1307 survive.
Ancient Capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara
Ancient Capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara (飛鳥・藤原の宮都), a 19-component serial World Heritage site in Nara, Japan, preserving the Asuka capital (588–694 CE) and Fujiwara capital (694–710 CE), inscribed July 26, 2026 as Japan's 27th World Heritage property under criteria (ii) and (iii).
Ancient City of Aleppo
The Ancient City of Aleppo is the walled historic core of Aleppo, Syria, a UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed in 1986 and placed on the danger list in 2013.
Ancient City of Damascus
Ancient City of Damascus (مدينة دمشق القديمة), Syria's walled old city, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, 86.12 ha, 125 monuments, Umayyad Mosque of 705-715, on the danger list since 2013.
Ancient City of Nessebar
Ancient City of Nessebar (Старинен град Несебър), a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1983 on a Black Sea peninsula in Bulgaria: Thracian Menebria, Greek colony, Byzantine town, known for medieval churches, Bulgarian Renaissance wooden houses, and ongoing conservation disputes.
Ancient City of Ping Yao
Ancient City of Ping Yao (平遥古城), a UNESCO World Heritage walled Han Chinese county city in Shanxi, China, inscribed 1997; rebuilt in 1370 with a 6 km wall and home of the 1824 Rishengchang, China's first draft bank.
Ancient City of Qalhat
The Ancient City of Qalhat (قلهات) is an abandoned medieval port city on Oman's coast, about 20 km north of Sur, inscribed by UNESCO in 2018.
Ancient Ferrous Metallurgy Sites of Burkina Faso
Ancient Ferrous Metallurgy Sites of Burkina Faso: UNESCO World Heritage serial property (2019) of five sites, Douroula, Tiwêga, Yamané, Kindibo, Békuy, preserving standing iron-smelting furnaces and over 2,700 years of production, with living blacksmith traditions.