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Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata
Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt, and Oualata: four medieval fortified caravan towns (ksour) in Mauritania, founded 11th-12th centuries, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996 under criteria (iii), (iv), (v), known for stone courtyard architecture and manuscript libraries.
Ancient Maya City and Protected Tropical Forests of Calakmul, Campeche (site)
Mixed UNESCO World Heritage site in Campeche, Mexico (inscribed 2002, extended 2014): the Maya city of Calakmul, seat of the Kaan dynasty, plus 331,397 ha of protected tropical forest within the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve.
Ancient Mound (Madhya Pradesh 164)
Ancient Mound (Vaishya Tekri), Undasa, Ujjain district, Madhya Pradesh: a centrally protected ASI mound where 1938-39 Gwalior State excavation exposed a huge brick stupa, base about 350 feet, possibly Mauryan; fresh excavation proposed.
Ancient Mound and Ruined Brick Walls Together With Adjucent Land Comprising Part of Survey Plot No. 608 & 611
Ancient Mound and Ruined Brick Walls (survey plots 608 & 611), Maner, Patna district, Bihar: a centrally protected ASI monument, a low mound with an east-west brick wall about 1 km northwest of Makhdum Shah Daulat's tomb, non-ticketed, Patna Circle.
Ancient Mound Called Thakurani Tilla
Thakurani Tilla is an ancient mound at Paschim Pilak in Tripura, India, where excavations revealed a brick temple complex of the 10th to 13th centuries.
Ancient Mounds Situated To the South East of the Fort Immediately Beyond the Moat Outside on Which A Modern Temple of Jagannath Stands
Ancient mounds at Pauni, Bhandara district, Maharashtra, also called Jagannatha Tekdi, outside the old fort's moat and crowned by a modern Jagannath temple; excavated 1969-70 and 1994 as a second-century BCE Hinayana brick stupa complex of the early historic Vidarbha city.
Ancient Siam
Ancient Siam (Muang Boran, เมืองโบราณ), also called Ancient City, is a private open-air museum in Samut Prakan, Thailand, founded by Lek Viriyaphant in 1963, with over 116 Thai monuments laid out on Thailand-shaped grounds.
Ancient Site (Jammu Kashmir 42)
Ancient Site (Jammu Kashmir 42), or Pandrethan (Puranadhisthana), Srinagar: Ashoka-era old capital of Kashmir with a 913–921 CE Shiva temple, ASI-protected, excavated 1913 by D.R. Sahni.
Ancient Site (Karnataka 83)
Ancient Site (Karnataka 83): centrally protected archaeological site at Udchan (Urchan), Afzalpur taluk, Kalaburagi district, Karnataka, under ASI Hampi Circle; listed among BC-period protected monuments.
Ancient Site (Uttar Pradesh 186)
Ancient Site (Uttar Pradesh 186), also called the Tola Thankurpur site, is an ASI-protected archaeological site at Village Birdpur No.1, Siddharth Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, identifier N-UP-L354, near the Salya stupa and Piprahwa Buddhist remains.
Ancient Site (Uttar Pradesh 24)
Ancient Site (Uttar Pradesh 24), also listed as a high square-shaped mound at Rudarpur, Deoria district, is a centrally protected ASI archaeological site under the Sarnath Circle, protected by 1920 notifications UP 1465/1133-M and UP 1669/1133-M.
Ancient Theater of Argos
Ancient Theater of Argos (Αρχαίο Θέατρο Άργους): Hellenistic Greek theater cut into the Larisa hill at Argos, capacity about 20,000, host of Nemean Games contests, remodeled under Hadrian, excavated by the French School at Athens.
Ancient theater of Eretria
Ancient theater of Eretria (Αρχαίο θέατρο Ερέτριας), a Hellenistic theater in Eretria on Euboea, Greece, built in three phases from the late 4th century BC, seating about 6,000, with rare Charonian steps, later a Roman gladiatorial arena, now under restoration.
Ancient theater of Kourion
Ancient theater of Kourion, Roman theatre at Kourion, Cyprus, over a late 2nd-century BC Hellenistic theatre; Trajanic enlargement AD 102-117, arena phase AD 214-250, restored 1961-1963, still used for performances.
Ancient Theater of Teos
Roman-period theatre at Teos, an Ionian city near Seferihisar, Turkey, on the Kocakır hill slope facing the southern harbour. Horseshoe cavea 86 m in diameter, about 7,000 seats, scaenae frons funded by Tiberius Claudius Philistes in the late 1st century AD.
Ancient Villa at Homs, Libya
Ancient Villa at Homs, Libya (Al-Khums): Roman villas near Leptis Magna, including the gladiator-mosaic villa found by University of Hamburg archaeologists in 2000 and the 2nd-century AD Villa Selene/Silin with 46 rooms and 400 m2 of mosaics.
Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui – Xidi and Hongcun
Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui – Xidi and Hongcun (皖南古村落) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of two Huizhou villages in Anhui, China, inscribed in 2000.
Ancol Dreamland Theme Park (dunia fantasi)
Ancol Dreamland Theme Park, also known as Dunia Fantasi or Dufan, is Indonesia's biggest outdoor amusement center, covering 21 hectares on Jakarta's northern waterfront since 1985.
And Atoll Biosphere Reserve
And (Ant) Atoll Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve designated 2007 in Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia; an uninhabited, co-managed atoll with 13 reptile, 25 bird, and 7 mammal species.
Anderidos
Anderidos (Anderitum, Anderida) was the Roman Saxon Shore fort at Pevensey, East Sussex, built about AD 290, garrisoned by the numerus Abulcorum, sacked by Saxons in 491, and later the site of William the Conqueror's 1066 landing.
Anderson Japanese Gardens
Anderson Japanese Gardens is a 12-acre public Japanese garden in Rockford, Illinois, begun in 1978 by John Anderson and designed by Hoichi Kurisu; a nonprofit rated among North America's finest Japanese gardens.
Andetrium
Andetrium was a Delmati hillfort and Roman auxiliary fort at Gornji Muć, Dalmatia, 16 Roman miles from Salona; Bato entrenched there in 6-9 AD, and the Via Gabiniana from Salona ended at it.
Andilly-en-Bassigny
Andilly-en-Bassigny, Haute-Marne commune (pop. 110) with a Gallo-Roman villa (1st-4th c. AD) with large private baths and a Merovingian necropolis; discovered 1832/1879, classified Monument historique 1986.
Andino Norpatagonica Biosphere Reserve
Andino Norpatagonica Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Andino Norpatagónica), UNESCO MAB site designated 2007 in Argentina; 2,323,218 ha of Valdivian temperate forests, Andean mountains, and Patagonian steppe with 21 core zones including Los Alerces National Park.
Andong Folk Village (安東民俗村)
Andong Folk Village (안동민속촌), in Seonggok-dong, Andong, South Korea, is an open-air site of traditional houses relocated in 1976 to escape flooding by Andong Dam; free entry, near Weolyeonggyo Bridge, distinct from Hahoe Folk Village.
Andrefana Dry Forests
Andrefana Dry Forests (Les forêts sèches de l'Andrefana), a serial UNESCO World Heritage site in western Madagascar inscribed 1990 as Tsingy de Bemaraha and extended 2023, six protected areas, 734,298 ha, karst tsingy pinnacles, mesites, high endemism.
Anfiteatro di Bleso
The Anfiteatro di Bleso is a Roman amphitheatre in Tivoli, Lazio, Italy, built in the Hadrianic era and named after Marcus Tullius Blesus, whose family funded its inauguration.
Anfiteatro Fausto
Anfiteatro Fausto, the Roman amphitheatre of Terni (ancient Interamna Nahars), Umbria; Julio-Claudian, 98.5 x 73 m, about 10,000 seats; named for a 32 AD inscription of Faustus Titius Liberale later shown to be unrelated.
Anfiteatro laterizio
Anfiteatro laterizio: the Roman amphitheatre of ancient Nola, Campania, named by Ambrogio Leone in 1514; built 1st century BC against the city walls, 138 x 108 m, tufo with marble cladding, partially excavated.
Anfiteatro minore
Anfiteatro minore, the minor amphitheater of Puteoli (Pozzuoli), Italy: the older, smaller Republican-era Roman amphitheater near the Flavian Amphitheater, cut by the Rome-Naples railway and identified in 1915.