Hi friends looking for your next adventure? Discover these incredible ancient temples from across the globe and learn about their Fascinating histories.

1.Temple of hatshepsut 

Location :Egypt

 Built around 1,470 B.C

Also known as Djeser-Djeseru,this ancient funerary shrine in egypt was designed by pharaoh hatshepsut's royal arhitech, senenmut, and can be recognized by its lengthy colonnade and terraces.although many of the site's orinignal statues and ornaments have been stolen or destoryed over the years,its relief depicting the divine birth of female pharoah is still inact.A monastery was built on top of the temple in the seventh century A.D.The site's first large excavation took place in the 1890s and the metropolitan museum of art's Egyptologist Herbert E.Winlock led an excavation and restortation of the site from 1923 to1931.

2.TEMPLE OF AMADA

Location:Nubai

Built:18th and 19th dynasties (between 1,550 and 1,189 B.C.)

originally constructed on the east  bank of Nile,this temple ,which is oldest temple in nubia,was moved in the 1960s and '70s to new, higher site on lake nasser to protect it from flooding.the effort was led by French Egyptologist christiane Desroches Noblecourt and included a number a well-preserved relief and two significant inscriptions describings the military accomplishments of the pharaohs who built the temple,Tuthmosis III and his son AmenhotepII.

3.GOBEKLI TEPE TEMPLE

Location:Turkey

Built:10,000 B.C

It is believed that 6,000 year  before stonehenge was built,remarkable stone temple was erected on a hill top in southeastern Turkey by prehistoric people.Known as Gobeki tepe ,the site was previously dismised by anthropologist ,who believed it to be a medieval grave. In 2008 ,however,the german  archaeologist klaus schmidt determined that Gobekli tepe is in fact,the oldest  known temple in the world .The site was purposefully buried around 8,000 B.C.for unknown reasons,although this allowed the structures to be preserved for future discovery and study.

4.LUXOR TEMPLE

Location:Egypt

Built:Between 1,100 and 1,600 B.C

This anicent Egytian temple on the east bank of the nile has served as a place  of workship for nearly 3,500 years.the site is known for its avenue of shinxes and the towering pylon of ramese II.The structure was constructed during the reigns of several  pharaohs,including Amenhotep III,Ramses II, and Tutankhamen,who is credited with much of the temple's decoration.The luxor temple is considered as the largest and most important site in ancient Egypt and was dedicated to amun,the king of the gods.

5.HYPOGEUM OF HAL-SAFLIENI

Location:Malta

Built:Around 2,500 

B.C.Unlike the other temples on our list, the Hypogeum in Malta was constructed underground .A UNESCO World Heritage Site,this enormous, subterranean labybrinth has false windows,trilithon doorway,decorative red ocher paintings,and carved-stone ceiling accents that mimic corbed masonry.The hypogeum was dicoverd in 1912  during construction and was first excavated beginning in 1903.The site was closed between 1990 and 2000 for conservation, and while it has reopened to public ,only 80 vistors permitted per day. 

6.STONEHENGE

Location:England

Built:Beginning in 3,000 B.C.

The stone structure we know today was constructed around 2,500 B.C.Though its original function remains unknown ,its possible that stonehenge was built as a temple for workship of ancient earth deities.comprising a symmetrical arrangement of bluestone,the structure is regarded as a major  feat  of engineering .stonehenge and its surroundings were declared a UNESCO World Heritage sites in 1986.

7.GGANTIJA TEMPLES

Location:Malta 

Built:Between 3,600 and 3,200 B.C

The temples are constructed of coralline limestone,and some of the stones weigh over 50 tons.Inside ,softer globigerina limestone was used for  decorative elements.The Temples,as well as five other temples in malta ,were named UNESCO World Heritage sites in 1980.

8.TEMPLE OF APOLLO

Location:Delphi,Greece,

Built:330 B.C

Temple was built on the site of two earlier temple.The architects,spintharus ,Xenodoros,and Agathon,built the periteral doric temple following a similar plan as the previous temple,which was destoryed by an earthquake in 373 B.C.Athenian sculptors androthenes and praxias created work that decorated the pediment.The village of kastri was built over the site in the seventh century A.D.And later removed in 1891 for long term excavation.delphi was named aUNESCO World Heritage site in 1987.

9.TCHOGHA ZANBIL

Location:Iran

Built:1,250 B.C

Tchogha Zanbil was founded by Elamite ruler Untash-Gal as the religious center of Elam.Khuzestan Province  holy city contains a Ziggurat (a rectangular stepped tower),temples and three palaces.The Ziggurat at Tchogha Zanbil  is the largest outside of Mesopotamia and the best-preserved structure of its kind. The city was never completed and was attacked and damaged by Assyrian king Ashurbanipal around 640 B.C.It was dicovered in 1935 by prospectors for an oil company and was excavated between 1946  to 1962 by archaeologist Roman Ghirshman.

10.ZIGGURAT OF UR

Location:Iraq

Built:21st century B.C.

The Ziggurat of Ur was built by king Ur-Nammu and Dedicated to the god Nanna.Today only the Foundations Remain,and part of the structure,including the staircase and lower Facade,was rebuilt by saddam Hussein in the 1980s.Its has been closed to the public since 2003,although U.S.Miltary personnel have been able to access the site thanks to its proximity the Talli Air Base.