National Monuments

210 monuments across 61 countries and territories, each plotted where it actually stands. The oldest is a mine worked forty-three thousand years ago; the newest was unveiled in 2022. Between them sit the pyramids of Giza and of Meroë, eleven churches cut downward into Ethiopian rock, the largest mud building on earth, the doors through which people were put onto ships, and the statues raised afterwards to the ones who came back.

100 of them are inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Many of the rest are not, which says more about who nominates and funds heritage than about what is worth keeping.

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