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Butrint

Butrint is an archaeological site in southern Albania on a peninsula beside the Vivari Channel and the Butrint lagoon. T...

City Greek Roman Albania

9.1 Excellent

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Syracuse

Syracuse is an ancient city on the southeastern coast of Sicily, founded by Greek settlers from Corinth in the eighth ce...

Italy City Greek Roman

9.1 Excellent

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Epidaurus

Epidaurus is an ancient Greek sanctuary and archaeological site located in Greece. It was renowned as a major healing ce...

Classical Greek Healing Greece

9.0 Excellent

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Agrigento (Valley of the Temples)

Agrigento’s Valley of the Temples preserves remarkably well-preserved remains of Akragas, a significant Greek city estab...

Greek Temples Sicily Doric

9.0 Excellent

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Delphi

Delphi is an ancient Greek archaeological site located on Mount Parnassus in Greece. It was a significant religious sanc...

Classical Oracle Greek Greece

8.7 Great

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Paestum

Paestum is an archaeological site in Campania, southern Italy, founded by Greek settlers around 600 BCE under the name P...

Italy Greek Temples Doric

8.6 Great

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Agrigento

Agrigento is an archaeological site on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, containing the remnants of the ancient Greek...

Italy Ancient Greek Sicily

8.6 Great

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Delos

Delos is a small, uninhabited Greek island in the Cyclades archipelago that served as a major religious and commercial c...

Classical Greek Island Greece

8.5 Great

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Sanchi

Sanchi is a Buddhist religious complex located on a hilltop in Madhya Pradesh, India, best known for its Great Stupa. Co...

India Buddhist Stupa Ashoka

8.2 Great

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Apollonia (Illyria)

Apollonia was an ancient Greek colony in Illyria, founded in 588 BCE in what is now Albania. It later flourished as a Ro...

City Greek Roman Albania

8.1 Great

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Anuradhapura

Anuradhapura is an ancient city in Sri Lanka that served as the island's first established capital from the 4th century...

Capital Sri Lanka Buddhist Stupa

8.0 Great

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Heraclea Lyncestis

Heraclea Lyncestis was an ancient Macedonian city near modern Bitola in North Macedonia, founded in the middle of the fo...

City Greek Roman North Macedonia

7.9 Good

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Selinunte

Selinunte is an ancient Greek archaeological site on the southwestern coast of Sicily, founded by colonists from Megara...

Coastal Greek Temples Sicily

7.8 Good

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Megara Hyblaea

Megara Hyblaea was an ancient Greek colony on the eastern coast of Sicily, near the modern city of Augusta. Greek settle...

Italy City Greek Ruins

7.8 Good

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Velia

Velia was an ancient Greek colony on the coast of the Cilento region in southern Italy. Founded by Greek settlers from P...

Italy City Greek Roman

7.7 Good

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Dura-Europos

Dura-Europos was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman frontier city founded around 300 BCE on a plateau overlooking the Eu...

Multicultural Syria Hellenistic Euphrates

7.5 Good

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Merv

Merv is a major archaeological complex at an oasis in present-day Turkmenistan, near the historic routes linking Central...

Oasis Capital Silk Road Turkmenistan

7.5 Good

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Gela

Gela was an ancient Greek colony on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, founded in 689 or 688 BCE by colonists traditio...

Italy City Greek Roman

7.5 Good

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Dyrrachium

Dyrrachium was an ancient city on the Adriatic coast at the site of modern Durrës in Albania. Founded as a Greek colony...

City Greek Roman Albania

6.9 Fair

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Musawwarat es-Sufra

Musawwarat es-Sufra is a large ancient religious and ceremonial complex in present-day Sudan, built during the Meroitic...

Temple Nubian Sudan Kushite

6.8 Fair