UNESCO World Heritage Sites

• A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a Landmark or Area which is protected under International Law by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). (Photo: Arles Roman Amphitheatre, France)
• They are Sites which are considered to be of Historical, Cultural or Scientific interest. The Sites listed below hold monuments mainly from Classical Antiquity.

UNESCO World Heritage Sites from Classical Antiquity:

1. United Kingdom
   • Avebury
   • Hadrian's Wall
   • Silbury Hill
   • Stonehenge
   • Giant's Causeway
2.  Algeria
   • Djemila
   • Timgad
3. Armenia
   • Etchmiadzin Cathedral
4. Austria
   • Danube Limes
   • Historic Centre of Vienna
   • Salzburg
5. Bahrain
   • Bahrain, Ancient capital of Dilmun
6. China
   • Great Wall of China
   • Terracotta Army
7. Croatia
   • Split, Diocletian's Palace
8. Cyprus
   • Paphos
9. Egypt
   • Great Pyramid
   • Great Sphinx
   • St. Catherine's Monastery, Sinai
   • Thebes (is modern Luxor)
   • Memphis
   • Pyramids
   • Abu Simbel Temples
10. Ethiopia
    • Aksum
11. France
    • Arles
    • Arles Roman Amphitheatre
    • Orange Roman Theatre and Triumphal Arch
    • Pont du Gard Roman Aqueduct
    • Palace of Versailles
12. Germany
    • Rhine Gorge
    • Saalburg Roman Fort and Museum
    • Trier Roman Monuments
    • Limes Germanicus
    • Raetian Limes
13. Greece
    • Acropolis of Athens
    • Delos
    • Delphi
    • Ephesus
14. Iran
    • Band-e Kaisar at Shushtar
    • Persepolis
15. Iraq
    • Babylon
16. Ireland
    • Newgrange
17. Israel
    • Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls
    • Masada
    • Megiddo
18. West Bank
    • Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem
19. Italy
    • Historic Centre of Rome
    • Hadrian's Villa
    • Herculaneum
    • Historic Centre of Naples
    • Pompeii
    • Vatican City
    • Venice
20. Sicily
    • Aeolian Islands, Sicily
    • Agrigento, Temples of the Valley, Sicily
    • Mount Etna, Sicily
    • Syracuse, Sicily
    • Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily
21. Jordan
    • Petra
    • Wadi Rum
22. Lebanon
    • Baalbeck Roman Temples
    • Byblos
    • Tyre
23. Libya
    • Sabratha
    • Cyrene
    • Leptis Magna
24. Lithuania
    • Curonian Spit
25. Malta
    • Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni
    • Valletta
    • Hagar Qim
26. Morocco
    • Volubilis
27. Pakistan
    • Mohenjo Daro
    • Taxila
28. Portugal
    • Evora
29. Roumania
    • Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa
    • Danube Delta
30. Scotland
    • Antonine Wall
    • Ring of Brodgar, Orkney Islands
    • Orkney Monuments, Orkney Islands
31. Spain
    • Cordoba
    • Roman Walls of Lugo
    • Merida
    • Mount Teide National Park
    • Tarragona: The Archeological Ensemble of Tarraco
    • La Coruna Roman Lighthouse
    • Las Medulas Gold Mine
32. Sri Lanka
    • Sigiriya
33. Syria
    • Bostra
34. Turkey
    • Troy
    • Xanthos

Photo and map: Arles Roman Amphitheatre, France