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Ephesus

Ephesus is an exceptionally significant archaeological site located on Turkey’s coastal west. It flourished as a major G...

Classical Turkey Coastal Urban

9.0 Excellent

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Akrotiri

Akrotiri represents an exceptionally well-preserved Bronze Age settlement on Santorini. The site offers invaluable insig...

Volcanic Greece Bronze Age Santorini

8.8 Great

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Baalbek

Baalbek in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley contains some of the largest and most elaborately decorated Roman temples ever built,...

Monumental Roman Lebanon Temple

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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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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Aksum

Aksum in northern Ethiopia was the capital of the Aksumite Empire, a powerful trading state from the 1st to 7th centurie...

Trading Ethiopia Aksumite Stelae

7.8 Good

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Caral

Ancient city in the Supe Valley of Peru, dating to c. 2600 BCE and recognized as the oldest known urban civilization in...

Coastal Peru Earliest City Norte Chico

7.8 Good

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Caesarea Maritima

Roman coastal city in Israel constructed by Herod the Great between approximately 22 and 10 BCE, featuring an artificial...

Israel Coastal Harbor 1ST Century

7.8 Good

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Selinunte

Selinunte is an ancient Greek archaeological site on the southern coast of Sicily, founded in 628 BC, and is notable for...

Coastal Greek Temples Sicily

7.8 Good

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Huaca del Sol y de la Luna

Two massive adobe pyramids near Trujillo, Peru, built by the Moche civilization between approximately 100 and 800 CE; Hu...

Coastal Peru Pyramid Moche

7.8 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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Tipasa

Ancient site on Algeria's Mediterranean coast, initially a Phoenician trading post and later a Roman colony, featuring e...

Coastal North Africa Roman Algeria

7.5 Good

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Huaca Rajada

A site in northern Peru where archaeologist Walter Alva discovered the unlooted tomb of the Lord of Sipán in 1987, yield...

Coastal Peru Moche 3RD Century

7.4 Good

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Pachacamac

A major religious and pilgrimage center on the Peruvian coast near Lima, active from the early centuries CE through the...

Oracle Coastal Andean Peru

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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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