swap_horiz Mogao Caves Alternatives

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Lascaux Cave

The Lascaux Cave is an archaeological site located in southwestern France. It contains remarkably preserved Paleolithic...

France Paleolithic Paintings Cave Art

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Chauvet Cave

Located in the Ardèche gorge of southern France, Chauvet Cave is a Paleolithic site discovered in 1994 by Jean-Marie Cha...

France Prehistoric Paleolithic Cave Art

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Altamira

The Cave of Altamira is an archaeological site located near Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain. Discovered in 1879 b...

Spain Prehistoric Paleolithic Cantabria

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Mogao Caves (Dunhuang)

The Mogao Caves, also known as the Thousand Buddha Grottoes, are a network of 492 Buddhist cave temples located near Dun...

China Painting Buddhist Silk Road

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Anyang (Yin Ruins)

The Yin Ruins at Anyang represent the remains of the last capital city of the Shang Dynasty, located in Henan Province,...

China Capital Bronze Age Shang

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Longmen Grottoes

The Longmen Grottoes are a significant archaeological site in Henan Province, China. Carved primarily between the 5th an...

China Buddhist Cave Art Northern Wei

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Yungang Grottoes

The Yungang Grottoes are a complex of ancient Buddhist temple caves excavated into the sandstone cliffs of Wuzhou Mounta...

China 5TH Century Buddhist Cave Art

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Sanxingdui

Sanxingdui is a Bronze Age archaeological site in Sichuan, China, first excavated in 1986. It revealed a previously unkn...

China Ritual Bronze Age Sichuan

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Font-de-Gaume

A Paleolithic decorated cave near Les Eyzies in the Dordogne region of France, containing over 200 polychrome paintings...

France Painting Prehistoric Paleolithic

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Sanchi

Sanchi is a Buddhist religious complex located on a hilltop in Madhya Pradesh, India, best known for its Great Stupa. Co...

India Buddhist Stupa Ashoka

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Zhoukoudian

Zhoukoudian is a cave system located southwest of Beijing, China, famous for the discovery of fossils belonging to Homo...

China Paleolithic Cave Homo Erectus

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Mawangdui

Mawangdui is an archaeological site located in Changsha, Hunan Province, China, consisting of three tombs from the Weste...

China Tombs 2ND Century Bce Han Dynasty

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Bodhgaya

Bodhgaya is a highly significant religious and archaeological site located in the Indian state of Bihar. It is tradition...

India Ancient Sacred Pilgrimage

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Nalanda

Nalanda was a prominent ancient Buddhist monastery and center of learning located in the ancient kingdom of Magadha, in...

India University Buddhist Bihar

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Sukhothai

Sukhothai is an extensive archaeological site in north-central Thailand that served as the capital of the first Kingdom...

Capital Thailand Thai 13TH Century

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Yin Ruins (Anyang)

The Yin Ruins, located in Anyang in China's Henan Province, represent the archaeological remains of Yin, the final capit...

China Capital Bronze Age Shang Dynasty

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Anuradhapura

Anuradhapura is an ancient city in Sri Lanka that served as the island's first established capital from the 4th century...

Capital Sri Lanka Buddhist Stupa

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Polonnaruwa

Polonnaruwa is a major archaeological site in Sri Lanka that served as the island nation's second capital from the 11th...

Medieval Capital Sri Lanka Buddhist

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Samarkand (Afrasiab)

Afrasiab is an ancient archaeological site located in the northern part of modern Samarkand, Uzbekistan. It encompasses...

Medieval Crossroads Uzbekistan Silk Road

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Taxila

Taxila is a multi-period archaeological site in present-day Punjab, Pakistan, consisting of the ruins of several ancient...

Pakistan Buddhist Gandhara Greek Period

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