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Pyra
Pyra (Πυρά) is a village in Phocis, Greece, on Mount Oiti, site of the Pyre of Herakles: a 3rd-century BC prostyle Doric temple, an Archaic-to-Roman altar, and an excavated ash bed tied to the hero's mythic self-immolation.
Pyramid
Pyramid: massive masonry monument with sloping sides meeting at an apex, built as royal tombs in Egypt and Nubia and as temple platforms in Mesoamerica; Djoser's step pyramid (c. 2780 BCE) was first, Khufu's Great Pyramid the largest at Giza.
Pyramid of Cestius
Pyramid of Cestius (Piramide di Caio Cestio): ancient Roman pyramid tomb near Rome's Porta San Paolo, built 18–12 BC for the praetor Gaius Cestius, completed in 330 days and later built into the Aurelian Walls.
Pyramid of Hellinikon
Pyramid of Hellinikon (Πυραμίδα του Ελληνικού), a small 7×9 m truncated-pyramid building near Argos, Greece, on the ancient Argos–Tegea road; dated conventionally to the 4th century BC but thermoluminescence proposed 2730±720 BC, a disputed result.
Pyramid of Khentkawes
Pyramid of Khentkawes (LG 100, G 8400), also called the step tomb of Khentkawes I, is a Fourth Dynasty two-tiered royal tomb at Giza, Egypt, called the fourth Giza pyramid by excavator Selim Hassan, with its attached Khentkawes Town settlement and debated royal status of its owner.
Pyramid of the Sun
Pyramid of the Sun (Pirámide del Sol), largest structure at Teotihuacan, Mexico: about 65 m high, 224 m base, ritual state temple with an artificial sacred cave beneath, dated A.D. 170–310.
Pyramid-complex of Senusret III
Pyramid complex of Senusret III (Senwosret III), Twelfth Dynasty royal funerary monument at Dahshur, Egypt: mud-brick pyramid cased in limestone, six queens' pyramids, South Temple, Dahshur treasure, and a probable Abydos burial.
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu (Monte Perdido), a UNESCO mixed World Heritage site (1997) of 30,639 ha on the Franco-Spanish border, centred on the 3,348-3,352 m limestone Mont Perdu, with Spanish canyons, French cirques, and living transhumance.
Pyrgos (Greece)
Pyrgos (Πύργος), Greek for "tower": the Elis regional capital with its Archaeological Museum, the Minoan site of Pyrgos-Myrtos in Crete, and ancient and Ottoman towers in Argolis, Thesprotia, and Chalkidiki.
Pyrgos Kheimarrou
Pyrgos Kheimarrou (Πύργος Χειμάρρου), Tower of Cheimarros: circular 4th-century BC Hellenistic marble tower in southeastern Naxos, Cyclades, 9.20 m in diameter, with a 35 m square enclosure, Hellenistic and Roman agricultural workshops, and debated military or signal-fire function.
Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos
Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos: Greek UNESCO World Heritage site (1992) pairing the fortified ancient city of Samos with the sanctuary of Hera, featuring the 1,036 m Eupalinus tunnel and successive giant Ionic temples under Polycrates.
Pyu Ancient Cities
Pyu Ancient Cities: UNESCO World Heritage serial site (2014, Myanmar's first) of three brick, walled, moated cities, Halin, Beikthano, Sri Ksetra, in the Ayeyarwady dry zone, built by the Pyu Kingdoms from 200 BC to AD 900, earliest Buddhist urban civilization in Southeast Asia.
Qadamgah
Qadamgah (Persian, 'place of the footprints') is an Achaemenid or post-Achaemenid rock-cut monument on Kuh-e Rahmat near Persepolis, Iran, now interpreted as a completed water-cult site, not a tomb.
Qal’at Salah El-Din/Fortress of Saladin
Qal’at Salah El-Din (قلعة صلاح الدين), Fortress of Saladin, Sahyun, Château de Saône: medieval castle in Latakia Governorate, Syria, with Byzantine, Frankish, and Ayyubid phases; UNESCO World Heritage 2006 with Crac des Chevaliers, in Danger since 2013.
Qalaat Faqra
Qalaat Faqra (قلعة فقرة), also Faqra, is a Roman-era sanctuary site at about 1,500 m in Kfardebian, Mount Lebanon, with the Tower of Claudius (43 AD, imperial cult of Claudius and Belgalassos), a great temple of Adonis/Jupiter Heliopolitanus, and an Atargatis temple later reused as a Byzantine baptistery.
Qalb Lozé
Qalb Lozé (قلب لوزة, Heart of the Almond) is a village on Jebel al-A'la, Idlib, Syria, with a well-preserved mid-fifth-century three-aisled basilica with twin towers, broad piers and arches, part of the UNESCO Ancient Villages of Northern Syria.
Qaleh Dukhtar
Qaleh Dukhtar (Qalʿa-ye Doḵtar, قلعه دختر), the Maiden's Castle, is Ardashir I's Sasanian palace-fortress above the Tang-ab gorge at Firuzabad, Fars, built before 224 CE; distinct from namesake castles at Kerman, Saveh, and Miana.
Qaleh Kharabeh fortress
Qaleh Kharabeh (Qal'eh Kharabeh, Persian for 'Ruined Castle') is a Sasanian-era fortress in the Gorgan Plain of northern Iran, probably built between the 410s and the mid-5th century.
Qanat-i Bagh
Qanat-i Bagh (قنات باغ), also Qanat Bagh, is a Sasanian-era stepped stone monument in the Farrashband valley, Fars, Iran, first read as a fire altar and chahar taq by Vanden Berghe (1984) and reinterpreted by Huff (1992) as a reliquary astodan; the name also denotes a nearby village of 303 people (2006).
Qasr al-Gib
Qasr al-Gib (قصر الجب), a small late Roman mud-brick fort in northern Kharga Oasis, Egypt; with Qasr al-Sumayra 2 km away it controlled the oasis's northern access in the fourth century AD.
Qasr Al-Kharanah
Qasr Al-Kharanah (قصر الخرانة), also Qasr Kharana, an Umayyad desert palace about 55 km east of Amman, Jordan; two-storey square fortress-like building dated before AD 710, non-military, likely a tribal meeting place and caravan stop.
Qasr al-Mshatta
Qasr al-Mshatta (قصر المشتى), an unfinished Umayyad desert palace near Amman, Jordan, built c. 743–744 under al-Walid II; its carved south facade was gifted to Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1903 and now stands in Berlin's Museum für Islamische Kunst.
Qasr al-Sumayra
Qasr al-Sumayra (Qasr el-Sumayra) is a Late Roman fortlet in Egypt's Kharga Oasis, part of the Gib/Sumayra Complex with Qasr al-Gib, a provisioning station served by aqueduct Q3 with industrial remains and vaulted tombs.
Qasr el-Banat (Lebanon)
Qasr el-Banat (قصر البنات), the Harf Chlifa sanctuary near Btedai, Lebanon: a Roman distyle in antis temple with Byzantine apsidal remains in a temenos, restudied as Ionic in 2023; distinct from the Qsarnaba temple of the same name.
Qasr el-Hallabat
Qasr al-Hallabat, Jordanian desert castle in Zarqa Governorate: Roman fort (107 CE), Ghassanid monastery-palace, Umayyad palace with mosque, mosaics, 146 Greek inscriptions from Anastasius's edict, and Hammam as-Sarah bathhouse.
Qasr Libya, West Church
Qasr Libya West Church (Theodorias): sixth-century Byzantine church in Cyrenaica, Libya, built on an inscribed cross plan with apse to the east; better preserved than the East Church, with a surviving cross-between-two-deer mosaic from Psalm 42.
Qaşr Qaddās
Qaşr Qaddās (Qasr Qaddas) is a ruined Roman fort in Libya, possibly the road station Thebunte of the Antonine Itinerary, 30 miles from Base and Auxiqua, at 31.69 N, 15.03 E.
Qasr Wurtij
Qasr Wurtij (Gasr Uertig), a fortified Roman fort near Khawlan in the djebel al-Akhdar, Cyrenaica, Libya, with a 4th-century AD church, part of the Roman frontier system.
Qeshm Island UNESCO Global Geopark
Qeshm Island UNESCO Global Geopark, Iran's first geopark and the Middle East's only one, designated 2017 on Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf; features the 7-km Namakdan Salt Cave, longest salt cave in the world, Zagros salt diapirs, and community geotourism.
Qibao Old Town
Qibao Old Town (七宝古镇), also called Qibao Ancient Town, is a historic Jiangnan canal water town in Shanghai's Minhang district, about 20 km southwest of the city center.