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Phaleron Limen
Phaleron Limen (Phaleron Harbour), the ancient open beach port of Athens on the Bay of Phaleron, main harbour until Themistocles developed Piraeus; site of Persian fleets in 490 and 480 BC.
Phanai
Phanai (Φανά) was an ancient sanctuary of Apollo Phanaios at Kato Phana on southwest Chios, cult from Mycenaean times, stone temple by the 7th century BC, later a Christian basilica.
Phanom Rung Historical Park
Phanom Rung Historical Park (ปราสาทพนมรุ้ง), opened in 1988, protects Prasat Phanom Rung, a Khmer Hindu sanctuary built from the 10th to 13th centuries on an extinct volcano in Buriram province, northeastern Thailand.
Pharos of Portus Dubris
Roman lighthouse (pharos) at Dover Castle, Kent, serving the port of Portus Dubris; one of only three surviving Roman lighthouses, paired with a lost Western Heights tower and Boulogne's Tour d'Odre.
Pheasant (site)
Pheasant is a mapped zoo site in Beijing, North China, near Badaling in Yanqing District, close to the Great Wall Brickkiln site and Qinglongqiao West railway station; distinct from Hunan's 七彩山鸡农家 guest house.
Philae
Philae (Egyptian Pilak) is a Nile island near Aswan, Egypt, and its temple complex dedicated to Isis, begun ca. 280 BCE under Ptolemy II. It was relocated stone by stone to Agilkia Island during the UNESCO Nubia Campaign and is part of the 1979 Nubian Monuments World Heritage site.
Philippa Langley
Philippa Langley, British screenwriter and amateur historian of the Richard III Society, led the 2012 Looking For Richard Project that found the king's grave under a Leicester car park, and later founded the Missing Princes Project on the Princes in the Tower.
Philippi (Φίλιπποι)
Philippi (Φίλιπποι), ancient city in eastern Macedonia on the Via Egnatia; founded 356 BCE by Philip II on the Thasian colony Krenides, refounded as a Roman colony after 42 BCE, visited by Paul in 49/50 CE, UNESCO-listed 2016.
Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary
Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary, Corella, Bohol: PTFI-DENR conservation forest protecting Carlito syrichta, with free-ranging tarsiers, no-touch no-flash viewing rules, and research-based population monitoring.
Philopappos Monument
Philopappos Monument (Μνημείο Φιλοπάππου), a two-storey marble mausoleum of 114–116 CE on the Hill of the Muses, Athens, tomb of the Commagenian prince and suffect consul Gaius Julius Antiochus Epiphanes Philopappos.
Philux King
Philux King (百家樂老虎機, 菲力國王老虎機) is a casino and electronic amusement venue at Jiaoxi Road Section 5 No. 89, Deyang Village, Jiaoxi, Yilan County, Taiwan, near Jiaoxi Hot Spring Square; unrelated to the Philippine furniture brand Philux.
Phimai Historical Park
Phimai Historical Park (อุทยานประวัติศาสตร์พิมาย) is a protected archaeological site in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, preserving the ancient Khmer city of Phimai and its temple, Prasat Hin Phimai.
Phipps Conservatory
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 1893 Lord & Burnham glasshouse in Schenley Park, gift of Henry Phipps; 15 acres, seasonal flower shows, LEED sustainability, Chihuly glass art.
Phlorentiana
Phlorentiana, an ancient late-antique fort or tower of Dacia-Moesia at Barrington Atlas 21 E5, identified with Florentin, Bulgaria, known from Procopius, Buildings 4.4.3, and Beševliev 1970; distinct from Florentia (Florence).
Phocian Wall
Phocian Wall: ancient barrier across the Thermopylae pass, built by the Phocians against Thessalian invasion, with hot springs diverted as a watercourse; ruined by 480 BC, rebuilt by Leonidas' Greeks, remains still visible.
Phoenix Islands Protected Area
The Phoenix Islands Protected Area is a large marine protected area in Kiribati, designated in 2006 and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010.
Phoenix Park
Phoenix Park (Páirc an Fhionnuisce), also called Phoenix Park, Dublin, is a 707-hectare walled public park west of central Dublin, established in 1662 as a royal deer park.
Phoinikon (Egypt)
Phoinikon (Φοινικών), also Phenice or Laqeita, was a Roman praesidium in Egypt's Wadi Hammamat at the Koptos–Myos Hormos/Berenike route fork, built under Vespasian (76–79 CE) and garrisoned into late antiquity.
Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park and Hin Nam No National Park
Transboundary UNESCO World Heritage Site (2025) joining Phong Nha-Ke Bang (Vietnam) and Hin Nam No (Laos) national parks; 217,447 ha of 400-million-year-old karst with over 220 km of caves, Son Doong, and Annamite endemic species.
Phourni
Phourni (Φουρνί) is a Minoan cemetery at Archanes, Crete, used from about 2400 to 1200 BCE. Excavated from 1964 by the Sakellarakises, it has tholos and house tombs, ossuaries, and royal Mycenaean-era burials.
Phra Phuttha Sihing
Phra Phuttha Sihing is one of Thailand's most revered Buddha images, a name held by gilded bronze images enshrined in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, and Nakhon Si Thammarat.
Phratamnak Kwan Phayao Aquarium
Phratamnak Kwan Phayao Aquarium (พระตำหนักกว๊านพะเยา) is a free freshwater fish exhibition at the Phayao Inland Fisheries Research and Development Center on Kwan Phayao lake, site of the world's first Mekong giant catfish artificial breeding in 1983, beside a preserved royal residence.
Phu Phrabat, a testimony to the Sīma stone tradition of the Dvaravati period
Phu Phrabat (Phu Phrabat Historical Park, Udon Thani, Thailand), UNESCO World Heritage Site 2024; Dvaravati-period Sīma stone boundary markers, largest in situ corpus, 47 painted rock shelters, criteria (iii) and (v).
Phuket Aquarium
Phuket Aquarium (สถานแสดงพันธุ์สัตว์น้ำ ภูเก็ต), Thailand's first aquarium, opened 1983 at Cape Panwa, Phuket. Government-run under the Phuket Marine Biological Center; research, turtle rescue, tunnel tank; distinct from Aquaria Phuket mall aquarium.
Phuket FantaSea
Phuket FantaSea (ภูเก็ตแฟนตาซี), also called Phuket Fantasea, is a Thai cultural theme park on Kamala Beach, Phuket, opened 6 February 1999, home of the 3,000-seat Palace of the Elephants theater and the elephant spectacle show Fantasy of a Kingdom.
Phyle
Phyle (Φυλή), Attic deme and mountain fortress on Mt. Parnes guarding the Athens–Thebes road; seized by Thrasybulus with 70 exiles in 404 BC, base for overthrowing the Thirty Tyrants; standing 4th-century BC pentagonal fort with five towers.
Pian della Conserva
Pian della Conserva (Pian Conserva), Etruscan necropolis on a tuff plateau in the Mignone valley near Tolfa, Lazio; largest necropolis of the Tolfa Mountains, controlled by Caere, with over 100 chamber tombs of the late seventh to sixth century BC.
Pian di Mola necropolis
Pian di Mola necropolis (Necropoli di Pian di Mola), Etruscan rock-cut cemetery at Tuscania, Viterbo, Lazio, in use 7th-1st century BC, known for the 6th-century BC house tomb with a four-column portico and lion and sphinx acroteria.
Piana del Lago Sanctuary
The Piana del Lago Sanctuary is an Etruscan and Roman rural sanctuary on the southern shore of Lake Bolsena, Italy, excavated since its discovery in 1987.
Pianabella
Pianabella, the "beautiful plain" south of Ostia Antica, is a roughly 50-hectare Roman necropolis with an orthogonal road grid and a late-4th-century Christian cemetery basilica (43.30 x 16.20 m) used for burials into the 9th century.