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Herculaneum

Herculaneum is an exceptionally well-preserved Roman town located near modern Naples, Italy. The site offers a unique wi...

Italy Urban Volcanic Roman

9.0 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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Delphi

Delphi, situated on the slopes of Mount Parnassus in Greece, was the seat of the Oracle of Apollo and served as the most...

Classical Oracle Greek Greece

8.7 Great

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Vergina

Vergina in northern Greece is the site of ancient Aigai, the first capital of Macedon, notable for its royal tombs inclu...

Greece Macedonian Alexander 4TH Century Bce

8.7 Great

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Mycenae

Mycenae is a Bronze Age citadel in the Peloponnese, Greece, that gave its name to Mycenaean civilization (c. 1600–1100 B...

Fortified Greece Bronze Age Mycenaean

8.5 Great

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Sanxingdui

Bronze Age site in Sichuan, China, first excavated in 1986, revealing a previously unknown civilization through spectacu...

China Ritual Bronze Age Sichuan

8.5 Great

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Delos

Delos is a small Greek island that was a major sacred sanctuary and ancient cult center, believed to be the mythological...

Classical Greek Island Greece

8.5 Great

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Knossos

Knossos on Crete is the largest Bronze Age palace site in the Aegean, associated with Minoan civilization and first exte...

Labyrinth Bronze Age Crete Minoan

8.3 Great

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Harappa

Major urban center of the Indus Valley Civilization in present-day Pakistan, flourishing c. 2600–1900 BCE and notable fo...

Urban Bronze Age Pakistan Indus Valley

8.2 Great

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Yin Ruins (Anyang)

Last capital of China's Shang Dynasty in Henan, occupied c. 1300–1046 BCE and the site where oracle bone inscriptions—th...

China Capital Bronze Age Shang Dynasty

8.0 Great

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Byblos

Byblos on the Lebanese coast is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, a major Phoenician port wh...

Coastal Trading Bronze Age Lebanon

7.5 Good

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Ugarit (Ras Shamra)

Bronze Age port city on the Syrian coast (c. 1450–1185 BCE) where excavations beginning in 1929 revealed one of the earl...

Bronze Age Syria Levant Alphabetic

7.5 Good

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Megiddo

Strategically located Canaanite and Israelite city in northern Israel, occupied from c. 7000 BCE, site of numerous ancie...

Israel Fortified Bronze Age Canaanite

7.5 Good

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Philippi

An ancient city in northeastern Greece founded by Philip II of Macedon in 356 BCE, later the site of the 42 BCE Battle o...

Greece Battle 4TH Century Bce Macedonian Roman

7.4 Good

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Jarlshof

Jarlshof is a multi-period archaeological site in Shetland, Scotland, featuring continuous settlement from the Bronze Ag...

Scotland Bronze Age Shetland Norse

7.3 Good

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Erlitou

Bronze Age site in Henan Province, China (c. 1900–1500 BCE), widely regarded as the probable capital of the Xia dynasty...

China Bronze Age Palatial 2000BCE

7.2 Good

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Ebla (Tell Mardikh)

Third-millennium BCE Syrian city-state whose excavation from 1964 uncovered a palace archive of roughly 17,000 cuneiform...

Urban Bronze Age Syria 2400BCE

7.2 Good

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Hazor

Largest Canaanite city-state in ancient Canaan, located in northern Israel, flourishing in the Middle Bronze Age and ref...

Israel Fortified Bronze Age Levant

7.2 Good

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Tiryns

Tiryns is a Mycenaean archaeological site in the Peloponnese, Greece, which flourished from 1400 to 1200 BC and is disti...

Fortified Greece Bronze Age Mycenaean

7.1 Good

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Palace of Nestor (Pylos)

The Palace of Nestor is a prominent Mycenaean palace near Pylos, Greece, destroyed by fire around 1200 BC, which preserv...

Greece Bronze Age Mycenaean Palatial

6.9 Fair