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Turkana, as Africa's largest saline lake, is an important area for the study of fauna and flora. It is a breeding ground for the Nile crocodile, hippopotamus, and several venomous snakes. [111] The site was placed the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2018, primarily due to the potential impact of Ethiopia's Gilgel Gibe III Dam. [112] Lamu ...
List of Ancient Settlements in the UAE; List of archaeoastronomical sites by country; List of colossal sculpture in situ; List of Egyptian pyramids; List of largest domes; List of megalithic sites; List of Mesoamerican pyramids; List of Roman domes; List of tallest statues; List of archaeological sites in Erbil Governorate
In 2014, ancient DNA analysis of a 2,330-year-old male forager's skeleton in southern Africa found that the specimen belonged to the L0d2c1c mtDNA haplogroup. This maternal clade is today most closely associated with the Ju, a subgroup of the indigenous San people , which points to population continuity in the region. [ 68 ]
Located in the ancient Kingdom of Mari in eastern Syria, the Palace covered more than two hectares, and included some 300 rooms, corridors, and courtyards. Pyramid of Userkaf: Egypt: Africa: c. 2480 BCE Tomb Located close to Pyramid of Djoser. [77] Pyramid of Sahure: Egypt: Africa: c. 2480 BCE Tomb Built for Sahure. [78] Pyramid of Neferirkare ...
The site features the ruins of Dougga, a former capital of a Libyan–Punic state, which flourished under Ancient Rome and the Byzantine Empire, but declined in the Islamic period. [46] Amphitheatre of El Jem: El Djem, Tunisia
Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Africa ... Pages in category "Archaeological sites in Africa" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Page dedicated to archaeological sites in West Africa (as opposed to the study of West African Archaeology itself). West Africa is as defined by the UN (Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Gambia, Cape Verde, and any other islands off the coast).
The Gedi ruins were first discovered by colonialists in 1884 after a British resident of Zanzibar, Sir John Kirk, visited the site. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] However, the ruins remained obscured until their subsequent rediscovery in the 1920s, when the site began to gain attention from the British East African government.