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Modesh World
Modesh World (Modhesh World) is Dubai's annual indoor family edutainment event at Dubai World Trade Centre during Dubai Summer Surprises; 27th edition in 2026 drew 60,000+ visitors with 157 attractions.
Moen Biosphere Reserve
Moen Biosphere Reserve (Møn Biosfæreområde), Denmark's first and only UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated 2017 in Vordingborg Municipality; 45,118 ha of Baltic islands with 18 orchid species, 112 red-listed fungi, and Møns Klint World Heritage cliffs.
Mogil'nik Ashpyl
Mogil'nik Ashpyl (Могильник Ашпыл), a Tagar culture kurgan cemetery near Lake Ashpyl on the Kadat River, Sharypovo district, Krasnoyarsk Krai; about 40 mounds excavated 1979–1983 and published in 2018, with radiocarbon dates mostly including the 4th century BC.
Mohenjo-daro
Mohenjo-daro (Moenjodaro), a UNESCO World Heritage site in Sindh, Pakistan, is a major 3rd-millennium BC city of the Indus civilization, known for grid planning, drainage, the undeciphered Indus script, and 2022 flood damage.
Möhn
Möhn (German Tempelbezirk von Möhn) is a Roman-era spring sanctuary in the village of Möhn near Trier, Germany, with three temples, a cult theater, and enclosed springs.
Moidams – the Mound-Burial System of the Ahom Dynasty
Moidams – the Mound-Burial System of the Ahom Dynasty: royal Tai-Ahom burial mounds at Charaideo, Assam, India; 90 vaulted mounds used over 600 years, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2024, India's 43rd.
Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve
The Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site designated in 1984, covering desert regions of southeastern California from Death Valley to the Mexican border.
Mokraya Balka cemetery
Mokraya Balka cemetery (Мокрая Балка), Alanic catacomb necropolis near Pyatigorsk in the Kislovodsk basin, North Caucasus; nearly 100 burials of the 5th-12th centuries CE, excavated 1967-1975 by Afanasiev and Runich, a reference site for regional chronology.
Mole Antonelliana
Mole Antonelliana, Turin landmark by Alessandro Antonelli, begun 1863 as a synagogue, completed by the city in 1889; 167.5 m masonry tower housing the National Museum of Cinema since 2000.
Molina- Alto Tajo UNESCO Global Geopark
Molina-Alto Tajo UNESCO Global Geopark (Geoparque Comarca de Molina-Alto Tajo), Guadalajara, Spain: EGN/GGN member since 2014, UNESCO Geopark 2015; over 4,200 km2, 70 municipalities, 450-million-year geological record, Fuentelsaz GSSP, aragonite type locality.
Molino San Vincenzo
Molino San Vincenzo (Molino di San Vincenzo) is a Roman rural settlement archaeological site in Montespertoli, Tuscany, in the Pesa valley; Etruscan bucchero finds, imperial-era structures, University of Vienna excavations since 2011, Pleiades ID 516051730.
Møllegårdsmarken
Møllegårdsmarken, Denmark's largest Iron Age cemetery near Gudme on Funen, with 2,230 excavated cremation graves used from the 1st century BC into the 5th century AD, rich in Roman imports.
Mollins
Mollins: Roman fortlet or small fort near Moodiesburn, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, 4 km south of the Antonine Wall. Flavian (c. AD 80s) Agricolan praesidium, 0.4 ha, found by aerial photography in 1977, excavated by Hanson and Maxwell.
Moltone, S. Pietro
Moltone, S. Pietro: Pleiades gazetteer name for the San Pietro di Tolve Roman villa near Monte Moltone, Tolve, Basilicata, Italy, pairing a 4th-century BC Hellenistic farmhouse with an imperial villa occupied into the 6th century AD.
Monaco Cemetery
Monaco Cemetery (Cimetière de Monaco) is the Principality's municipal cemetery, established 1868, covering about 2 hectares above Monaco facing the sea. Managed by the Mairie with So.Mo.Tha, it holds Europe's largest columbarium (546 niches) and burials including Joséphine Baker and Roger Moore.
Monasteries of Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
Serial Greek World Heritage site (inscribed 1990) grouping three middle Byzantine monasteries: Daphni near Athens, Hosios Loukas in Phocida, and Nea Moni on Chios, with 11th-12th century gold-ground mosaics and octagonal domed churches.
Monastero di San Mamiliano
Monastero di San Mamiliano, or Abbazia di San Mamiliano, a former Benedictine and Camaldolese monastery on Montecristo island, Tuscany, at about 400 m elevation; twelfth-century granite church with tau plan, abbots from Silvegio (902) to De Bellis (1555), linked to the Dumas treasure legend.
Monastery of Geghard and the Upper Azat Valley
Monastery of Geghard (Geghardavank, formerly Ayrivank), a rock-cut medieval Armenian monastery in the Upper Azat Valley, Kotayk; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000, cathedral of 1215, Holy Spear relic.
Monastery of Saint Simeon Stylites
Qal'at Sem'an (Monastery of Saint Simeon Stylites), also called Church of Saint Simeon, is a ruined 5th-century pilgrimage complex in northwest Syria built around the pillar of Simeon Stylites (d. 459), with a cruciform martyrium, baptistery, and monastery; UNESCO-listed in 2011.
Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém in Lisbon
Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém in Lisbon (Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, Torre de Belém): serial UNESCO World Heritage site, inscribed 1983, criteria (iii)(vi), Manueline monuments of Manuel I on the Tagus.
Monastic Island of Reichenau
Monastic Island of Reichenau (Klosterinsel Reichenau), a Lake Constance island in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, site of a Benedictine monastery founded in 724 by Pirmin; UNESCO World Heritage since 2000 with three medieval churches and Ottonian wall paintings.
Mondragone
Mondragone, coastal comune in Caserta province, Campania, Italy, on the Tyrrhenian coast at Monte Massico; Roman Sinuessa ruins lie offshore, with villa rustica sites at Columbrella and the namesake Mondragone relief and Villa Mondragone.
Monfragüe Biosphere Reserve
Monfragüe Biosphere Reserve, a 116,161.80 ha UNESCO MAB site in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, designated 9 July 2003, centered on Monfragüe National Park (2007) and dehesa woodland holding major raptor colonies.
Mongol Daguur Biosphere Reserve
Mongol Daguur Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated in 2007 in eastern Mongolia's Dornod province on the Russian border, protects moist Daurian steppe and wetlands with six crane species, a 1992 Strictly Protected Area, Ramsar status, and Landscapes of Dauria World Heritage inclusion.
Monheim-Haus Bürgel
Monheim-Haus Bürgel (Haus Bürgel), a late Roman fort of about 64 x 64 m near Monheim am Rhein on the Lower German Limes; UNESCO World Heritage 2021, walls up to 4 m preserved, Roman museum, biological station, stud farm.
Monkey Mountain (China)
Monkey Mountain (猴山, monkey hill) is a sunken Chinese zoo enclosure built around artificial rock hills for monkeys; Beijing Zoo's, built in 1942, is the best known.
Monkey Park Iwatayama
Monkey Park Iwatayama (Arashiyama Monkey Park Iwatayama, 嵐山モンキーパークいわたやま) is a Kyoto park on Mount Iwata, opened 1957, where about 120 wild Japanese macaques roam free and are fed through a hut's wire fence.
Monkeys (pass del Rio y reserva animal)
Monkeys (pass del Rio y reserva animal), Spanish "Moons", is the monkey enclosure of the Paseo del Río animal reserve in Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico: a free riverside zoo attraction near the Cocodrilario and Teleférico.
Monkodonja
Monkodonja (Moncodogno), Bronze Age hillfort near Rovinj, Istria, Croatia, occupied about 1800-1200 BC; three concentric dry-stone walls, ~1 km outer rampart, acropolis, ~1,000 inhabitants; excavated 1997-2008 by Mihovilić, Hänsel, Teržan.
Mono Biosphere Reserve
Mono Biosphere Reserve, Benin (Réserve de biosphère du Mono): UNESCO MAB site designated 14 June 2017 in the Mono River delta on the Benin–Togo border; 142,498 ha of mangroves, savannah, lagoons and sacred forests; part of the 346,285 ha Mono Transboundary Biosphere Reserve.