Époque Early Modern

1500 apr. J.-C. – 1800 apr. J.-C. · 18 sites

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Longest Recorded History in China

Great Wall of China

700 av. J.-C. – 1644 apr. J.-C.

The vast frontier fortification system of northern China — rammed-earth Qin walls and the iconic stone Ming battlements — remains the single most conspicuous monumental gap left in a global archaeological atlas.

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Most-Visited Ancient Site in South America

Machu Picchu

1450 apr. J.-C. – 1572 apr. J.-C.

An Inca citadel built c. 1450 CE, Machu Picchu sits atop a mountain ridge in Peru. Abandoned during the Spanish conquest, it remained unknown to the outside world until 1911.

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Southernmost Known Site in South America

Rapa Nui

1100 apr. J.-C. – 1722 apr. J.-C.

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is famed for its colossal stone moai, crafted by a Polynesian society that flourished from roughly 1100 to 1722 CE, leaving a cryptic legacy of monumental art and ecological transformation.

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The fifteen moai of Ahu Tongariki at Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile

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Most-Visited Ancient Site in Oceania

Easter Island

900 apr. J.-C. – 1722 apr. J.-C.

The most remote inhabited island on Earth and the home of the moai — over 900 monumental stone figures, some weighing 80 tonnes, carved and transported by the Rapa Nui people across a tiny Pacific island to stand on ceremonial platforms as the embodied presence of ancestral chiefs.

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Walled old town and harbour of Dubrovnik on the Adriatic Sea

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Longest Continuously Occupied Site in Croatia

Dubrovnik Old Town

600 apr. J.-C. – 1808 apr. J.-C.

The walled marble city on the Adriatic — capital of the maritime Republic of Ragusa for centuries — whose intact ramparts, Stradun, and Renaissance palaces make it one of Europe's most visited historic cities and a UNESCO masterpiece of late-medieval urban design.

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Longest Continuously Occupied Site in Mali

Timbuktu

1100 apr. J.-C. – 1591 apr. J.-C.

Legendary 'City of 333 Saints' and major trans-Saharan trade hub; reached its intellectual zenith under Songhai (1464–1591), leaving earthen mosques and vast manuscript libraries.

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The Dome of the Rock and Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem

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Oldest City in Israel

Old City of Jerusalem

1000 av. J.-C. – 1900 apr. J.-C.

The walled heart of Jerusalem — roughly one square kilometre sacred to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — where the Western Wall, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and Dome of the Rock stand within Ottoman-era ramparts and layers of Iron Age, Roman, Byzantine, and medieval archaeology.

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Hampi

1336 apr. J.-C. – 1565 apr. J.-C.

The ruined capital of the Vijayanagara Empire, Hampi’s sprawling temples and civic structures date from 1336 to 1565, embodying Dravidian architecture at its peak.

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Meteora

1100 apr. J.-C. – 1900 apr. J.-C.

A forest of sandstone pinnacles in Thessaly, Greece — crowned by Byzantine and post-Byzantine monasteries reached by stairs and bridges — among the most dramatic religious landscapes in Europe and a UNESCO site drawing millions of visitors and pilgrims.

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White plastered main keep and roofs of Himeji Castle, Japan

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Longest Recorded History in Japan

Himeji Castle

1333 apr. J.-C. – 1868 apr. J.-C.

Japan's finest surviving feudal castle — a white-plastered maze of keeps, gates, and moats in Hyogo Prefecture — draws enormous Chinese and English search traffic as the country's most complete "original" fortress and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993.

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Fatehpur Sikri

1571 apr. J.-C. – 1586 apr. J.-C.

The red-sandstone Mughal capital Akbar built near Agra in the 1570s–1580s — a planned imperial city with the Buland Darwaza, Diwan-i-Khas, and Panch Mahal — abandoned after only a generation yet preserved as one of India's great UNESCO ensembles.

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Dense mud-brick tower houses of the walled city of Shibam in Wadi Hadramawt

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Longest Continuously Occupied Site in Yemen

Shibam

500 apr. J.-C. – 1800 apr. J.-C.

A walled city of towering mud-brick tower houses in Yemen’s Wadi Hadramawt — often called the "Manhattan of the Desert" — where medieval Hadrami urbanism perfected vertical densification as a response to floodplain limits and defensive needs.

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