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Antinoeion at Hadrian's Villa
Antinoeion: sanctuary excavated 2002–2005 at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, identified by Zaccaria Mari as the temple-tomb of Antinous, Hadrian's deified lover; three temples, possible obelisk, summer-solstice sunrise alignment, tomb identification contested.
Antioch of Pisidia
Antioch of Pisidia (Pisidian Antioch, Colonia Caesarea) was a Seleucid-founded city near Yalvaç, Turkey, refounded by Augustus in 25 BC as the leading Roman veteran colony of the eastern empire, visited by Paul, and flourishing into the 6th century AD.
Antoger
Antoger is a limestone quarry site at Grésy-sur-Aix near Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, France, in Roman Gallia Narbonensis; its stone was used locally in the Roman Imperial period and the quarry is still worked today.
Antro delle Sorti
Antro delle Sorti (Cave of the Lots), Palestrina, ancient Praeneste: a rock-cut grotto on the forum's west side, paved with the late 2nd-century BC Fish Mosaic seabed; once misidentified as the oracle's sortes repository, likely a nymphaeum or Isis sanctuary.
Anubieion at Saqqarah
The Anubieion at Saqqarah (Anubeion) is the Ptolemaic temple of Anubis at North Saqqara, Egypt, built by Ptolemy II and rebuilt by Ptolemy V, excavated by the EES 1977–79, and linked to the dog catacombs of mummified canids.
Anywaa Forest Biosphere Reserve
Anywaa Forest Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site in Ethiopia's Gambella region designated September 2025; 1,838,624 ha, six ecosystems, corridor linking Gambella National Park with Boma National Park.
Aokigahara (青木ヶ原)
Aokigahara, also called Jukai or the Sea of Trees, is a dense forest on the northwestern foot of Mount Fuji, Japan, that grew on lava from an 864 eruption.
AOne Cafe
AOne Cafe names several unrelated businesses: a 24/7 casino in Al-Hamdaniya District, Nineveh, Iraq; Aone Cafe Private Limited, a Delhi hospitality company incorporated 2022; and cafes in Kathmandu, London, and Nottingham.
Aoyama Cemetery (青山霊園)
Aoyama Cemetery (青山霊園) is a public cemetery in Minato ward, Tokyo, opened in 1874 on the former Aoyama family estate and often described as Japan's first public cemetery.
Apa Apollo
Apa Apollo (Bawit, ⲧⲟⲡⲟⲥ ⲛⲁⲡⲁ ⲁⲡⲟⲗⲗⲱ) was a large Coptic monastery in Middle Egypt, founded late 4th century by the monk Apollo, inhabited to about the 12th century, and documented by over 700 papyri.
Apa Phoibammon (monastery)
Apa Phoibammon (Dayr Apa Phoibammon, Deir el-Bahri) was a Coptic monastery founded late sixth century by Bishop Abraham of Hermonthis atop Hatshepsut's temple at Thebes, known for legal papyri, superiors' wills, and an eighth-century child-donation healing cult.
Apa Senouthou (monastery)
Apa Senouthou monastery, the White Monastery (Dayr al-Abyad, Dayr Anba Shinudah) near Sohag, Egypt: Coptic monastery founded c. 350 by Pgol, led by Shenoute 385–465, with a fifth-century temple-like basilica church.
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.
Apalachicola Biosphere Reserve
Apalachicola Biosphere Reserve, formerly Central Gulf Coastal Plain, a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site (1983) on the Florida Panhandle covering the Apalachicola River floodplain and Apalachicola Bay, with core at the 234,715-acre National Estuarine Research Reserve.
Aphrodisias
Aphrodisias: ancient Greco-Roman city in Caria, southwestern Turkey, named for Aphrodite, famed for its marble quarries, sculpture school, Sebasteion, Tetrapylon, and 270 m stadium; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2017.
Aphrodision
Aphrodision (Ἀφροδίσιον) means a sanctuary of Aphrodite and names an unexcavated Hellenistic-to-Byzantine town on Cyprus's north coast near Akanthou, mentioned by Strabo and Ptolemy, distinct from Aphrodisias in Caria.
Aphrodite Golgia
Aphrodite Golgia (Γολγία ἡ Ἀφροδίτη), the Golgian Aphrodite, a Cypriot cult form of Aphrodite named for Golgoi, with her principal sanctuary at Arsos, attested by 3rd-century BC dedications and Theocritus.
Aphrodite sanctuary at Dafni
The Aphrodite sanctuary at Dafni (Ιερό Αφροδίτης στο Δαφνί) is an open-air sanctuary of Aphrodite on the Sacred Way between Athens and Eleusis, used from the classical to the Roman period.
Aphrodites (Oros)
Aphrodites (Oros), also Wadi Menih el-Heir, was a Roman praesidium and well station on Egypt's Coptos–Berenike desert road, founded 76/77 CE by prefect Iulius Ursus, occupied 1st–3rd and 4th–5th centuries CE, distinct from Aphrodites Nesos island.
Aphui Mound
Aphui Mound, officially "Mound called chauki", is a 10-12 foot brick-strewn archaeological mound in Aphui village, Khaga tehsil, Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh; a centrally protected ASI monument on the old Kanauj-Prayag road.
Apollo 11 Cave
Apollo 11 Cave is a rock shelter in southern Namibia, known for seven painted stone slabs dated to about 30,000 years ago, Africa's earliest figurative art.
Apollo Alaeus (temple)
Temple of Apollo Alaeus, a sanctuary of Apollo near Punta Alice at Crimisa (Ciro), Calabria, South Italy; foundation credited to Philoctetes, who dedicated his bow; Barrington Atlas 46 F3.
Apollo Asgelatos (temple)
The temple of Apollo Asgelatos was an ancient Greek temple on the Cycladic island of Anafi, bearing an epithet found nowhere else and later overlaid by a monastery.
Apollo Bingo
Apollo Bingo is a UK bingo hall brand: four current clubs at Rhyl, Caernarfon, Camborne, and Lowestoft run by Real Fun Group since its late-2023 rescue of Majestic Bingo venues, plus earlier namesake operators and the 1978 Glasgow Apollo bingo controversy.
Apollo Cynneius
Apollo Cynneius (Ἀπόλλων Κύννειος, Kynneios): a cult of Apollo with a sanctuary near Temnos in Aiolis destroyed by Prusias II in 155 BCE (Polybius 32.15.12), plus an Athenian cult with the Kynnidai priesthood; site unlocated, Barrington Atlas 56 E4.
Apollo Erethimios, T.
Apollo Erethimios, T. (ἱερον Ἀπόλλωνος Ἐρεθιμίου): ancient sanctuary and Doric temple of c. 400 BC near Theologos, Rhodes, chief sanctuary of Ialysos, with the Great Erethimia festival and an Early Christian basilica overlay.
Apollo Hylates, T.
Apollo Hylates, T. (Ἀπόλλων Ὑλάτης) is the ancient sanctuary of Apollo Hylates, "of the woodland", protector of Kourion, Cyprus; worshipped 8th century BC to 4th century AD, rebuilt under Trajan, ruined by the 365 AD earthquake.
Apollo Korythos Sanctuary
Apollo Korythos Sanctuary (Ιερό Απόλλωνα Κορύθου), ancient Greek sanctuary at Agios Andreas, Longa, Messenia; founded 8th century BC, used to late Roman times; excavated by Versakis 1915; Laconian-style bronze finds.
Apollo Maleatas, T.
Apollo Maleatas (Ἀπόλλων Μαλεάτας), 'the one of Malos', is the Epidaurian healing form of Apollo whose sanctuary on Mt Kynortion above Epidaurus predates the Asklepieion, with cult from the 8th century BC and a Classical temple of 380 BC.
Apollo Nasiotas, T.
Apollo Nasiotas is the sanctuary of Apollo, meaning "the Islander," the principal sanctuary of the ancient West Locrian town of Chaleion, identified with modern Galaxidi, Greece.