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Giza Pyramid Complex

The Giza Pyramid Complex is a monumental archaeological site in Egypt containing three primary pyramids built during the...

Egyptian Monument Funerary Old Kingdom

9.7 Brilliant

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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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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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Palmyra

Palmyra in central Syria was a prosperous caravan city that flourished under Roman rule in the 1st–3rd centuries CE, ren...

Desert Caravan Roman Syria

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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Roman Baths of Bath

The Roman Baths of Bath in Somerset, England, are a remarkably preserved 1st-century CE bathing complex built around a n...

England Thermal Sacred Roman

8.5 Great

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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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Hatra

Parthian-era fortified city in northern Iraq (1st–3rd centuries CE) blending Hellenistic and Eastern architectural style...

Desert Caravan Iraq 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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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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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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Carnuntum

Carnuntum was an important Roman army camp and provincial capital in modern-day Austria that reached its peak around 200...

Austria Roman Legion Danube

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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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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Pyu Ancient Cities

Three ancient cities in Myanmar—Halin, Beikthano, and Sri Ksetra—representing the Pyu civilization that flourished from...

Myanmar Walled Buddhist 1ST Century

7.0 Good

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Tillya Tepe

A northern Afghan burial site excavated in 1978 by Viktor Sarianidi, yielding over 20,000 gold objects from six nomadic...

Gold Nomadic Afghanistan 1ST Century

5.8 Mediocre

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Oc Eo

An ancient port city in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, associated with the Funan kingdom and active from the 1st to 7th cent...

Vietnam Mekong 1ST Century Funan

5.5 Mediocre