Ancient Ruins of the World

Ancient Ruins of the World

Lascaux

モンティニャック＝ラスコー · FR

Rediscovered by four teenagers in 1940 — a 20,000-year-old gallery of humanity's earliest masters

Ancient Ruins of the World

Hiroshima Peace Memorial

大手町 · JP

8:15 a.m., 6 August 1945 — the iron skeleton that became a UNESCO 'negative heritage' site

Ancient Ruins of the World

Nazca Lines

イカ県 · PE

Two millennia of giant desert drawings — visible only from above, etched into Peru's southern coast

Ancient Ruins of the World

Hampi

Vijayanagara District · IN

Hampi — the boulder-strewn UNESCO ruins of South India's lost Vijayanagara capital

Ancient Ruins of the World

Masada

Tamar Regional Council · IL

A clifftop fortress above the Dead Sea, where Jewish resistance is etched in stone

Ancient Ruins of the World

Çatalhöyük

コンヤ県 · TR

An Anatolian mound where one of the world's oldest proto-cities arose around 7500 BCE

Ancient Ruins of the World

Taxila

ラーワルピンディー県 · PK

The Heart of Gandharan Buddhism — Ancient South Asia's Oldest University City of Stupas and Ruins

Ancient Ruins of the World

Roman Forum

ローマ · IT

The beating heart of ancient Rome - where the Senate spoke and Caesar burned

Ancient Ruins of the World

Hattusa

Boğazkale district · TR

The lost capital of the Hittite Empire — a Bronze Age megacity on the Anatolian plateau

Ancient Ruins of the World

Nalanda Mahavihara

Nalanda · IN

Where Xuanzang Studied — The World's First Residential University and Heart of Mahayana Buddhism

Ancient Ruins of the World

Ellora Caves

アウランガーバード県 (マハーラーシュトラ州) · IN

Three faiths carved into a single cliff — the world's only rock-cut temple ensemble

Ancient Ruins of the World

Cave of Altamira

サンティリャーナ・デル・マル · ES

Where 15,000-year-old bison gallop the ceiling — the cave that reset prehistory

Ancient Ruins of the World

Tikal

ペテン県 · GT

Pyramid temples piercing the Peten rainforest — the largest Classic Maya metropolis

Ancient Ruins of the World

Minaret of Jam

シャラク地区 · AF

A 60-meter brick tower in an Afghan canyon — the high point of 12th-century Ghurid art

Ancient Ruins of the World

Harappa

サーヒーワール県 · PK

The 1921 rediscovery that named a civilization — northern type-site of the Indus Valley

Ancient Ruins of the World

Teotihuacan

メヒコ州 · MX

Lost megacity called 'City of the Gods', Sun and Moon Pyramids on the high plateau

Ancient Ruins of the World

moai

パスクア島 · CL

887 megalithic statues on a remote South Pacific island, Rapa Nui's stone giants

Ancient Ruins of the World

Göbekli Tepe

シャンルウルファ県 · TR

Older than farming — the world's first stone temple still sleeps on a Turkish hill

Ancient Ruins of the World

Pantheon

ローマ · IT

The oldest surviving Roman dome, a 1900-year-old temple and the cradle of domed church architecture

Ancient Ruins of the World

The Great Sphinx

ギーザ · EG

Humanity's oldest colossal sculpture, a single limestone monolith guarding the Pyramids

Ancient Ruins of the World

Hadrian's Wall

カンブリア · GB

The 117-kilometre stone frontier of Emperor Hadrian, Rome's northernmost World Heritage rampart

Ancient Ruins of the World

Western Wall

エルサレム · PS

Two millennia of prayer etched into stone — Judaism's holiest accessible site

Ancient Ruins of the World

Giza Necropolis

ギーザ県 · EG

Birthplace of the pyramid: Memphis and 30 km of necropolis from Saqqara to Dahshur

Ancient Ruins of the World

Pripyat

キーウ州 · UA

Where 50,000 vanished overnight — the Soviet model city Pripyat frozen as a ghost-town pilgrimage

Ancient Ruins of the World

Buddhas of Bamiyan

バーミヤーン州 · AF

The 55m cliff Buddha that Xuanzang once revered, lost in 2001 — UNESCO dark heritage

Ancient Ruins of the World

Valley of the Kings

ルクソール · EG

Where pharaohs descend into the underworld — the necropolis that gave us Tutankhamun

Ancient Ruins of the World

Terracotta Army

8,000 life-sized warriors guarding the First Emperor, the century's greatest find

Ancient Ruins of the World

Tower of London

タワーハムレッツ・ロンドン特別区 · GB

950 years of royal castle from 1066, ravens, jewels and Beefeaters of the World Heritage

Ancient Ruins of the World

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

ムーラ県 · TR

The Wonder that gave 'mausoleum' its name — now a foundation in Bodrum

Ancient Ruins of the World

Giza pyramid complex

ギーザ県 · EG

Three pyramids and the Sphinx of the Old Kingdom 4th Dynasty on the Giza plateau

Ancient Ruins of the World

Abu Simbel

アスワン県 · EG

Ramses II's might and the world rescue of the 1960s, twin rock temples reborn in the desert

Ancient Ruins of the World

Temple of Ephesian Artemis

セルチュク · TR

An Ancient Wonder reduced to a single column — the marble temple of Artemis

Ancient Ruins of the World

Mohenjo-daro

ラーカナ地区 · PK

2500 BC Indus megacity, planned grid and undeciphered script of earliest urbanism

Ancient Ruins of the World

Borobudur

ジョグジャカルタ市 · ID

The world's largest Buddhist monument and the apex of 9th-century Shailendra art

Ancient Ruins of the World

Chernobyl

ヴィーシュホロド地区 · UA

Where humanity's worst nuclear disaster froze time — Ukraine's dark tourism mecca

Ancient Ruins of the World

Great Pyramid of Giza

ギーザ県 · EG

The 4,500-year-old pyramid of Khufu, the only surviving wonder of the ancient world

Ancient Ruins of the World

Parthenon

アテネ自治体 · GR

Ancient Greece's masterpiece atop the Acropolis, the eternal canon of classical architecture

Ancient Ruins of the World

Stonehenge

エイムズベリー · GB

Britain's 5,000-year-old prehistoric stone circle, the world's most famous solar calendar in stone

Ancient Ruins of the World

Angkor Wat

シェムリアップ州 · KH

A 12th-century Khmer-built Hindu temple turned Buddhist, the world's largest religious monument

Ancient Ruins of the World

Colosseum

ローマ・カピターレ · IT

Rome's largest amphitheater and the symbol of the ancient Western world, standing since AD 80