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Aras UNESCO Global Geopark
Aras UNESCO Global Geopark, a 1,670 km² geopark in Jolfa County, northwest Iran, designated in 2023 as Iran's third UGGp; bounded by the Aras River and famed for its Permian–Triassic Boundary extinction record at the Alli-Bashi geosite.
Arasbaran Biosphere Reserve
Arasbaran Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and Biosphere site in East Azerbaijan Province, northwestern Iran near the Azerbaijan and Armenia borders. Designated 1977; about 164,000 ha of mountain forest with 1,334 plant species, five core zones, and roughly 9,600 residents.
Araucarias Biosphere Reserve
The Araucarias Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Araucarias) is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in the Andes of Araucanía Region, southern Chile, created in 1983 and enlarged in 2010.
Arazi Mukhimpur Mound
Arazi Mukhimpur Mound (Arazi Mukimpur), Sahibganj district, Jharkhand: ASI centrally protected monument N-JH-8, ruins of baradari buildings with probable underground cells and passage on a high mound, Rajmahal subdivision.
Arbeia
Arbeia, South Shields Roman Fort: a Roman fort on the Lawe at the mouth of the River Tyne, England. Also called Lugudunum, 'place of the Arabs'. Became Hadrian's Wall's granary supply base under Septimius Severus, garrisoned by Tigris boatmen, now a UNESCO site with reconstructions.
Arbin
Arbin (Savoie), France: village in the Combe de Savoie with the Gallo-Roman site of Mérande, a 1st-4th century villa-or-vicus with mosaics, and a 2024 Inrap discovery of an ancient wine production facility.
Arbor Low stone circle
Arbor Low (Arbe Low), a Neolithic henge and large irregular stone circle on Middleton Moor, Derbyshire, Peak District; over 50 fallen limestone slabs, a cove, and nearby Gib Hill barrow; scheduled 1882, excavated 1901-1902 by H. St. George Gray.
Arboretum
An arboretum is a documented living collection of trees and woody plants grown for research, conservation, education, and display, with labeled specimens distinguishing it from a public park.
Arbury Road
Arbury Road is a street in north Cambridge, England, giving its name to one of the city's densest concentrations of Romano-British archaeology, excavated since the early 1950s.
Arc de Campanus
Arc de Campanus, Roman monumental arch at Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, built late 1st century AD by Lucius Pompeius Campanus for his family; 9.15 m tall, 75 cm thick, classified 1890, function debated.
Arc de Diane
Arc de Diane, Cahors (Lot, France): surviving arcade of the Roman public baths of Divona Cadurcorum, not a triumphal arch or temple of Diana; opus mixtum, late 1st-2nd century, classified 1886, excavated 1953-1956 by Labrousse.
Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe is a monumental triumphal arch in Paris at the top of the Champs-Élysées, commissioned by Napoleon in 1806 and inaugurated in 1836.
Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel: Paris triumphal arch (1806–1808) by Percier and Fontaine for Napoleon's 1805 victories, on the Arch of Septimius Severus model, crowned by Bosio's quadriga, restored 2022–2024.
Arch of Titus
Arch of Titus (Arco di Tito, Arcus Titi): first-century Pentelic marble honorific arch on the Via Sacra, Rome, built by Domitian after 81 CE for the deified Titus, with menorah spoils and triumph reliefs.
Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia
UNESCO World Heritage Site (1998, criteria iii, iv, vi) in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy: the unexcavated remains of the Roman colony of Aquileia, founded 181 BCE and destroyed by Attila in 452, plus the Patriarchal Basilica with its 4th-century Theodorian mosaic floor.
Archaeological Area of Agrigento
Archaeological Area of Agrigento, the Valley of the Temples (Valle dei Templi), a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Sicily since 1997: the ancient Greek polis of Akragas with its row of Doric temples, Hellenistic-Roman quarters, and necropolis.
Archaeological area of Villa di Campetti
Archaeological area of Villa di Campetti (Campetti sud-ovest), a multi-period excavated site on the Veii plateau near Rome: Iron Age huts, an Etruscan sanctuary, a Roman thermal-therapeutic cult complex, and early medieval spoliation, excavated by Sapienza's Progetto Veio since 1996.
Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata
Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata: Italian serial World Heritage site (1997, criteria iii, iv, v) covering the Roman towns buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD, their villas, 98.05 ha property, two archaeological parks.
Archaeological Border complex of Hedeby and the Danevirke (Germany)
Archaeological Border complex of Hedeby and the Danevirke (Haithabu and Danewerk), a German UNESCO World Heritage site (2018, no. 1553): a Viking-age trading town and 33 km border rampart on the Schleswig Isthmus, occupied 8th-11th centuries.
Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida
Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida (Conjunto Arqueológico de Mérida), remains of Augusta Emerita, Roman colony founded 25 BC, capital of Lusitania, in Extremadura, Spain; UNESCO World Heritage site since 1993 with theatre, amphitheatre, circus, bridge, and aqueducts.
Archaeological Ensemble of Tarraco
Archaeological Ensemble of Tarraco (Conjunto Arqueológico de Tarraco): UNESCO World Heritage serial site (2000, criteria ii, iii) in Tarragona, Spain, preserving the Roman provincial capital of Hispania Citerior, its walls, forums, circus, amphitheatre, aqueduct, and villas.
Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley
Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Perak, Malaysia, preserving evidence of human occupation from 1.83 million to 1,700 years ago.
Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba
Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba (Paisaje arqueológico de las primeras plantaciones de café), UNESCO World Heritage site since 2000: 171 abandoned French-Haitian cafetales over 81,475 ha in Sierra Maestra foothills, damaged by Hurricane Melissa in 2025.
Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua
Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua (Parque Arqueológico y Ruinas de Quiriguá), a 1981 UNESCO World Heritage Maya site in Izabal, Guatemala, with 17 sandstone stelae and zoomorphs carved 426–810 AD, including the Maya area's largest plaza.
Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City
Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City (良渚古城遗址), Hangzhou, China: UNESCO World Heritage site (2019) of a Late Neolithic walled city, ca. 3300-2300 BCE, with rice farming, jade burials, and an 11-dam water conservancy system.
Archaeological site
Archaeological site: a place holding physical remains of past human activity, protected under ICOMOS and UNESCO frameworks, dated by relative and absolute methods, and threatened by climate change, conflict, and looting.
Archaeological Site at Plasi of Marathon
Plasi (Πλάσι), coastal Marathon, Attica: a settlement site occupied from the Final Neolithic (c. 3500 BC) to early Christian times, with Bronze Age fortification, a Mycenaean warrior shaft grave, an Archaic sanctuary, and NKUA excavations since 2014.
Archaeological Site of Aigai (modern name Vergina)
Aigai (Vergina), UNESCO World Heritage site in northern Greece since 1996: first capital of ancient Macedon, with the ca 340 BC royal palace, theatre, and Great Tumulus royal tombs of Philip II and Alexander IV found in 1977-8.
Archaeological site of Atapuerca
The Archaeological Site of Atapuerca is a cave complex near Burgos in northern Spain whose fossils record the earliest humans in Europe, from over one million years ago.
Archaeological Site of Carthage
Archaeological Site of Carthage (Site archéologique de Carthage), a UNESCO World Heritage property in Tunisia inscribed in 1979 over 498.08 ha, preserving Punic, Roman, Vandal, Paleochristian, and Arab remains including Byrsa, the Punic ports, tophet, and Antonin baths.