Built in the 4th century BC
Connected Sites
Site | Rationale | Link |
Archaeological Site of Aigai | Temple and palace, there are earlier tombs | |
Archaeological site of Philippi | founded in 356 BCE | |
Butrint | By the 4th century BC it had grown in importance and included a theatre, a sanctuary to Asclepius and an agora. Around 380 BC, the settlement was fortified with a new 870 metres long wall (wiki) | |
Epidaurus | Epidaurus entered its greatest period in the 4th century BC, when the Temple of Apollo Maneates and the great monuments of the Hieron were built. (AB ev) | |
Land of Frankincense | "By 300 BCE the site of Shisr had become part of this network." (formal network for incense) (AB ev) - Khor Rori is later, ca. 1st century BC | |
Rio Abiseo National Park | "constitute an outstanding example of pre-Hispanic human occupation at high altitudes in the Andean region from as early as the 4th century BC" (ICOMOS); Gran Pajaten is dated from -900-200 BC and 200 BC-AD 600, but the ruins that can be seen today were constructed in the Inca times (1200-1500 AD) | |
Stari Grad Plain | "land parcel system, dating from the 4th century BC" | |
The Persian Qanat | Qasabeh, Khorasan-e Razavi/Gonabad, dates from 3- 4 centuries BCE (AB ev) | |
Thracian tomb of Kazanlak | Late 4th century, could also be 3rd (unesco website) | |
Via Appia | "built under the authority of the Censor Appius Claudius Caecus from 312 BCE onwards" (AB ev) | |
Xanthos-Letoon | trilingual inscription dates to 358 B.C.; Nereid Monument "is thought to have been built in the early fourth century BCE" (wiki) |
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