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18 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
New Kingdom to Roman (1550 BCE–30 BCE–300 CE) · Egyptian Theban; 18th Dynasty onward
Nile's 50-ha sandstone quarry-narrow with 32 shrines 1500 BCE–300 CE; Horemheb speos and flood stelae at 400-m gorge.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
New Kingdom to Coptic (1500 BCE – 650 CE) · Egyptian / Greco-Roman
Northern limestone quarry harbour of Akoris 1–2 m under Nile silt below 40 m cliffs — slipway 60 m with rope grooves and quarry chapel.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
New Kingdom to Coptic (1500 BCE – 650 CE) · Egyptian / Greco-Roman
Northern limestone quarry harbour of Akoris 1–2 m under Nile silt below 40 m cliffs — slipway 60 m with rope grooves and quarry chapel.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Old Kingdom to Byzantine (2700 BCE – 700 CE) · Pharaonic / Roman Egyptian
Southern terrace Nile harbour of Akoris at Tihna — 50 m quay revetment and tomb forecourt quay.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Numidian to Byzantine (quarry 2nd c BCE–6th c CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Imperial marble quarry source of giallo antico with 80 m high quarry face, loading ramps and bridge over Medjerda.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Old Kingdom to Coptic (c.2500 BCE – 700 CE) · Egyptian / Ptolemaic / Roman
Nile cliff quarry town at Tihna — second harbour terrace slipway 2 m under talus 10 m above floodplain, limestone quay for Nile stone barges.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Roman Imperial (1st–4th c. CE; peak Trajan–Hadrian 98–138 CE) · Roman (Imperial quarrying)
Mons Claudianus is a remote Eastern Desert granodiorite (quartz-diorite) imperial quarry, 700 m altitude between Nile and Red Sea, source of grey column shafts for Pantheon, Trajan's Forum and Villa…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Old Kingdom to Roman (2700 BCE–500 CE; peak 1500–30 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian / Roman
Syene (Aswan) granite quarries are Old–Ptolemaic hardstone source producing 100-m-long unfinished obelisk of Hatshepsut (1,200 t) abandoned in bedrock crack, plus sarcophagi, colossi and pavements…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
PPNA · Taş Tepeler PPN
Taş Tepeler T-pillar quarry hill with unfinished 5 m blanks still attached to bedrock.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Archaic to present (1000 BCE–present) · Sioux (Dakota/Lakota/Nakota), Oneota predecessors
2,000-year sacred catlinite quarries: 3000 pits in Sioux quartzite cliff plus thunderbird petroglyphs.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Hittite Empire to Neo-Hittite (c.1375–800 BCE; main workshop 900–800 BCE) · Hittite / Neo-Hittite (Sam'al/Aramean patronage)
Largest Iron Age stone sculpture workshop in the Near East, Yesemek operated as Hittite (1375–1335 BCE) then Neo-Hittite quarry (900–800 BCE) with unfinished basalt sphinxes, lions, mountain gods and…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic to Norse · Shetland Neolithic / Norse
Steatite quarry and standing stone at Catpund, worked from 3000 BCE to Norse times.
🇱🇾 Libya · Necropolis
Greek to Late Antique (7th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Greek (Cyrenean) / Roman
Quarry-necropolis north of Tocra with 120 chamber tombs.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Quarry
Ptolemaic to Roman (180 BCE–200 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman (Upper Egypt)
Desert quarry supplying Kom Ombo's double temple with stuck naos.
🇱🇾 Libya · Quarry
Greek to Byzantine (5th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Greek / Roman (Cyrenaica–Marmarica)
Mesa quarry for Tobruk harbour works with slip road cart ruts.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock-cut
Old to Middle Kingdom (2600–1650 BCE) · Egyptian (Hare Nome)
Nomarch tombs and quarry road with colossus-on-sledge painting (1900 BCE).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Old to New Kingdom (2600–1100 BCE; peak 2050–1650 BCE) · Egyptian (Middle Kingdom)
Middle Kingdom amethyst mining landscape with 14 quarries and fortified miners' fort.
🇨🇱 Chile · Megalith
900–1500 CE · Rapa Nui
Cross-ref quarry within Rapa Nui National Park main entry; tuff quarry with 400 moai in situ including El Gigante (~21 m).
