Built in the 5th century BC

Connected Sites: 9

WHS whose OUV derives entirely or significantly from 5th century BC constructions. Where construction straddles the centuries the date of conception/commencement is used i.e which century does the site really "belong" to in spirit.

Connected Sites

  • Acropolis
    Acropolis
    Greece
    Inscribed: 1987
    4.27
    490
    14
    Its masterpieces (Parthenon, Propylaea) date from the 5th century
  • Agrigento
    Agrigento
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.72
    216
    8
    great temples were built during the rule of the tyrant Thero (488-473 BC)
  • Ancient Merv
    Ancient Merv
    Turkmenistan
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.83
    42
    5
    The succession of cities, which together once encompassed over 1000 ha, date from the 5th century BCE to the present day. The first city was Erk Kala.
    See www.ucl.ac.uk
  • Tauric Chersonese
    Tauric Chersonese
    Ukraine
    Inscribed: 2013
    2.83
    23
    4
    Chersonese city was founded in the 5th century BCE as a colonial settlement of the Dorian Greeks (Unesco), see also full site name
  • Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art
    Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art
    China
    Inscribed: 2016
    2.38
    25
    3
    Dating from around the 5th century BCE to the 2nd century CE (Rock art, AB ev)
  • Plain of Jars
    Plain of Jars
    Laos
    Inscribed: 2019
    3.51
    60
    8
    The funerary sites are believed to date from before the Iron Age (between about 500 BCE and 500 CE) into historic times (AB ev)
  • Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont
    Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont
    Italy
    Inscribed: 2014
    2.80
    149
    6
    Vine pollen has been found in the area dating from the 5th century BC (Nom File).
  • Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
    Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
    Greece
    Inscribed: 1986
    3.03
    115
    16
    built from 420 to 400 BC
  • Chongoni Rock Art
    Chongoni Rock Art
    Malawi
    Inscribed: 2006
    1.49
    13
    3
    earliest archaeological remains