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Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju
Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju: prehistoric hypogeic cemetery of 38 domus de janas near Alghero, Sardinia; largest pre-Nuragic necropolis of northern Sardinia, used 3200-1600 BC, UNESCO-listed 2025.
Necropolis of Campovalano
Necropolis of Campovalano (Necropoli di Campovalano), pre-Roman Pretuzian burial ground near Campli, Teramo, Abruzzo; over 600 tombs used from the 10th century BC to the early 2nd century BC, with stone-circle tumulus tombs, chariots, and Etruscan-import bronze vessels.
Necropolis of Pantalica
The Necropolis of Pantalica is a prehistoric rock-cut cemetery in southeast Sicily near Syracuse, with over 5,000 chamber tombs dating mainly from the 13th to 7th centuries BC.
Necropolis of Ponte Messato
Necropolis of Ponte Messato (Necropoli di Ponte Messato), also called Madonna della Cona: pre-Roman and Roman burial ground in Teramo, Abruzzo, in use from the 9th century BC to the imperial age along the ancient Via Caecilia; discovered 1961, with Italic inhumation and Roman cremation phases.
Necropolis of Porta Ercolano
The Necropolis of Porta Ercolano is the funerary district of ancient Pompeii outside the Herculaneum Gate, holding tombs of aristocratic citizens, including the schola tomb of the priestess Mamia.
Necropolis of Porta Nola
Necropolis of Porta Nola (Necropoli di Porta Nola), Roman cemetery outside Pompeii's eastern gate. Schola tombs of Aesquilia Polla, enclosure of Marcus Obellius Firmus, four Praetorian graves, and 79 AD eruption fugitive casts.
Necropolis of Porta Vesuvio
Necropolis of Porta Vesuvio, the Roman burial ground outside Pompeii's Vesuvius Gate along the road to Mount Vesuvius, excavated 1907–1910, with elite monumental tombs including the painted tomb of Vestorius Priscus.
Necropolis of Santa Maria in Borraccia
Necropoli di Santa Maria in Borraccia: Etruscan necropolis of the 7th-6th century BC at Magliano in Toscana, Grosseto, Tuscany, near ancient Heba; chamber tombs with dromos, visitor route opened 2024.
Nedre Dalälven River Landscape Biosphere Reserve
Nedre Dalälven River Landscape (Älvlandskapet Nedre Dalälven), a UNESCO biosphere reserve in central Sweden designated 2011, spanning 170 km of the lower Dalälven across nine municipalities, with Färnebofjärden National Park as core area and four sustainability focus areas.
Neerhaaren-Rekem
Neerhaaren-Rekem (Neerharen-Rekem), Het Kamp, Limburg, Belgium: multi-period archaeological site 11 km north of Maastricht with a Flavian-era Roman villa and a late 4th-century Frankish village of 29 Grubenhäuser.
Negrar Roman Villa
Villa dei Mosaici di Negrar, a Late Antique Roman villa of about 3,000 square meters in Negrar di Valpolicella near Verona, found under a vineyard; discovered 1885-1887, excavated by Tina Campanile in 1922, rediscovered in 2020, becoming an archaeological park.
Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation Area (NOCWCA)
The Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation Area is a coastal wetland complex in the Philippines, designated a Ramsar site in October 2016, the country's seventh.
Nekromanteion
Nekromanteion (Νεκρομαντεῖον), the Acheron oracle of the dead in Preveza, Epirus, excavated by Sotirios Dakaris; a Hellenistic complex with a fifteen-arch underground crypt, burned by Rome in 167 BC, its identification still debated.
Nelson Lakes National Park
Nelson Lakes National Park: South Island, New Zealand park established 1956 around glacial Lakes Rotoiti and Rotoroa; 101,880 ha of northernmost Southern Alps, beech forest, St Arnaud gateway.
Nelson's Column
Nelson's Column, the Grade I listed memorial in Trafalgar Square, London, honoring Admiral Horatio Nelson; designed by William Railton with statue by E.H. Baily, built 1840–1843, about 51.6 m tall, with Landseer's bronze lions added 1867.
Nelson's Pillar
Nelson's Pillar, the Nelson Pillar, was a 121-foot granite Doric column with a Thomas Kirk statue of Horatio Nelson on O'Connell Street, Dublin, built 1808–1809 to Wilkins's design, opened 1809, bombed and destroyed in 1966, site now the Spire.
Nemara
Nemara (Namara, En-Nemara) is a Roman castrum site in Suwayda Governorate, southern Syria, on the western edge of the Safa basalt field near the Limes Arabicus. Famous for the 328 CE Namara inscription of Imru' al-Qays, now Louvre AO 4083.
Nemea (Νεμέα)
Nemea (Νεμέα) is an ancient sanctuary of Zeus in the northern Peloponnese, southwest of Corinth, known for the Nemean Games held every two years from 573 BCE.
Nemora Vacunae
Nemora Vacunae, the groves of Vacuna, sacred woods of the Sabine goddess near Reate (Rieti), Italy, named by Pliny and Horace; location debated between Bacugno and Lake Velinus, with a sanctuary excavated at Montenero Sabino.
Nemus Sorabense/Sorabile
Nemus Sorabense/Sorabile: Roman mansio and sacred grove of Diana and Silvanus at Soròvile, 2 km north of Fonni, Sardinia, on the aliud iter ab Ulbia Caralis road between Olbia and Carales; excavated 1879–1881, probably founded in the 2nd century AD.
Nennig
Roman Villa Nennig (Römische Villa Nennig), Perl-Nennig, Saarland: large Roman villa rustica near Trier, discovered 1852, famed for its 10.30 × 15.65 m gladiatorial mosaic of about three million tesserae, still shown in situ.
Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes (Mons)
Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes (Minières néolithiques de silex de Spiennes), near Mons, Belgium: largest and earliest ancient flint mines in Europe, over 100 ha, shafts to 16 m deep, UNESCO World Heritage since 2000.
Neorion
Neorion (νεώριον): Greek term for a shipyard or naval base, best known as the ancient shipyard harbor of Constantinople beside the Prosphorion on the Golden Horn; silted by the 7th century, dredged in 698, and later the Byzantine fleet's main base.
Neratii
Neratii (gens Neratia), Roman senatorial family from Saepinum in Samnium, Italy, and their large Villa of Neratii at San Giuliano del Sannio, with cryptoporticus, inscriptions, and excavations since 2004.
Nerusso-Desnianskoe-Polesie Biosphere Reserve
Nerusso-Desnianskoe-Polesie Biosphere Reserve (Неруссо-Деснянское Полесье), a UNESCO MAB site designated in 2001 in Russia's Bryansk Region: 133,994 ha of Desna River floodplain forests and wetlands with over 90,000 spring waterbirds.
Nesta Resort Kobe
Nesta Resort Kobe (ネスタリゾート神戸), Japan's first large-scale nature adventure theme park, in Miki, Hyogo. 2.3 million m², 30+ activities, hotels, onsen, Water Fort pool; opened July 2016.
Nether Denton Roman fort
Nether Denton Roman fort, Cumberland, England: an unexcavated late first/early second century AD Stanegate frontier fort on the River Irthing, with a vicus occupied after the fort was abandoned when Hadrian's Wall opened in AD 122.
Netta
Netta is an ancient cemetery site in northeastern Poland, cited as Barrington Atlas 2 H3, with a DARMC location for AD 300-640; excavated graves include a unique Scandinavian single-barbed spear point and prestige-marked family groups.
Nettleton
Nettleton refers to two Roman-era British sites: the Nettleton Scrub temple complex of Apollo Cunomaglos in Wiltshire on the Fosse Way, and Nettleton Top in Lincolnshire, an Iron Age shrine and Roman roadside settlement with over 230 Iron Age coins.
Neuruppersdorf
Neuruppersdorf: village and cadastral community of Wildendürnbach, Mistelbach district, Lower Austria. Known for a rich Germanic Lübsow-group inhumation grave of the early 2nd century AD (Adler 1975) and a Lombard-phase cemetery; first recorded 1267.