Paquimé played a key role in trade and cultural contacts between the Pueblo culture of the southwestern United States and Mesoamerica.
UNESCO
A Phoenician trading-post that served as an outlet for the products of the African hinterland, and which was Romanized in the 2nd and 3rd centuries.
Ancient Sabratha
This tomb, built in 1570, is of particular cultural significance as it was the first garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent.
Humayun’s tomb
The mausoleum of Antiochus I is one of the most ambitious constructions of the Hellenistic period.
Nemrut Dağ (tomb of King Antiochus I ...
A magnificent 2nd-century Roman theatre, early Christian ruins, and several mosques are found within Bosra's great walls.
Ancient city of Bosra
These 34 monasteries and temples, extending over more than 2 km, were dug side by side in the wall of a high basalt cliff
Ellora caves
The Koutammakou landscape in north-eastern Togo, which extends into neighboring Benin, is home to the Batammariba with their remarkable mud tower-houses
Mud tower-houses (takienta), Koutammakou region
The Summer Palace in Beijing is a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design.
Summer Palace in Beijing
The cave paintings, rock carvings and archaeological sites record the skills and way of life of the region’s inhabitants, from the hunter-gatherers of prehistoric times to the Aboriginal people still living there.
Carvings and paintings, Kakadu
The cave paintings, rock carvings and archaeological sites record the skills and way of life of the region’s inhabitants, from the hunter-gatherers of prehistoric times to the Aboriginal people still living there.
Carvings and paintings, Kakadu
The largest Buddha in the world is at Mount Emei in China.
Giant Buddha of Leshan
The Imperial Citadel buildings reflect a unique South-East Asian culture specific to the lower Red River Valley, at the crossroads between influences coming from China in the north and the ancient Kingdom of Champa in the south.
Imperial Citadel of Thang Long, Hanoi
The great civilization which evolved in the Kingdom of Sukhothai absorbed numerous influences and ancient local traditions.
Sukhothai
Founded c. 1350, Ayutthaya became the second Siamese capital after Sukhothai.
Ayutthaya
This spectacular natural site contains many caves and rock-shelters with the largest and most concentrated group of paintings in Africa south of the Sahara.
uKhahlamba Drakensberg rock paintings (San)
Timbuktu was an intellectual and spiritual capital and a center for the propagation of Islam throughout Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries
Timbuktu
Originally designed as a monument symbolizing the Reconquest, the Convent of the Knights Templar of Tomar came to symbolize the opening up of Portugal to other civilizations.
Convent of Christ, Tomar
El Tajin has survived as an outstanding example of the grandeur and importance of the pre-Hispanic cultures of Mexico.
El Tajín
The colony of Augusta Emerita, which became present-day Mérida in Estremadura, was founded in 25 B.C. at the end of the Spanish Campaign and was the capital of Lusitania.
Colony of Augusta Emerita, Mérida
This Cistercian abbey in Catalonia is one of the largest in Spain.
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