swap_horiz Canyon de Chelly Alternatives

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Chaco Canyon

Chaco Canyon, located in New Mexico, USA, was a major center of the Ancestral Puebloan culture between roughly AD 850 an...

USA Medieval New Mexico Ancestral Puebloan

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Mesa Verde

Mesa Verde is a significant archaeological site located in southwestern Colorado. It preserves the ancestral Puebloan pe...

USA Colorado 13TH Century Cliff Dwellings

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Susa (Shush)

Susa, located in southwestern Iran, was an ancient city that served as a major urban center for several millennia. It fu...

City Ancient Iran Multi Period

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Megiddo (Armageddon)

Megiddo is an ancient tell in northern Israel overlooking the strategic Jezreel Valley pass. The site contains approxima...

Israel Bronze Age Multi Period Canaanite Israelite

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Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde)

Cliff Palace is a large archaeological site located within Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado. It is the...

USA Colorado 13TH Century Cliff Dwelling

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Chaco Culture

Chaco Culture refers to the network of archaeological sites in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, USA, which formed a major cerem...

USA New Mexico 9TH Century Ancestral Puebloan

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Clovis (Blackwater Draw)

Blackwater Draw is a significant archaeological site located near Clovis, New Mexico, that serves as the type-site for t...

USA Paleolithic New Mexico Paleo Indian

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Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks

The Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks are a group of eight monumental archaeological sites located in southern Ohio, USA. C...

USA Ohio Native American Mound

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Cahokia Mounds

Cahokia Mounds is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city located near present-day Collinsville, Illinois, acro...

USA Urban Pre Columbian Mound

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Beit She'an

Beit She'an is a major archaeological site in northern Israel's Jordan River Valley featuring continuous human occupatio...

Israel City Ancient Multi Period

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Sardis

Sardis was an ancient city located in western Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey, serving as the capital of the Lydian Empir...

Turkey City Ancient Multi Period

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Old City of Sana'a

The Old City of Sana'a is a historic walled settlement in Yemen that has been inhabited for over 2,500 years. It is dist...

Urban Ancient Yemen Multi Period

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Taxila

Taxila is a multi-period archaeological site in present-day Punjab, Pakistan, consisting of the ruins of several ancient...

Pakistan Buddhist Gandhara Greek Period

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Krakow Wawel Hill

Wawel Hill is a fortified limestone outcrop on the Vistula River in Kraków, Poland, containing significant archaeologica...

Poland Medieval Royal Fortified

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Puye Cliff Dwellings

Puye Cliff Dwellings are an ancestral Puebloan archaeological site in north central New Mexico, located on a volcanic pl...

USA Cliff Dwelling Anasazi Pueblo

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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

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Pu'uhonua o Honaunau

Pu'uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park is a site on the Kona coast of Hawaii's Big Island. In ancient Hawaiian cu...

USA Sacred Hawaiian 15TH Century

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Danger Cave

Danger Cave is a major archaeological rock shelter located near Wendover in western Utah, USA. Excavated primarily in th...

USA Utah Archaic Great Basin

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Jarlshof

Jarlshof is a multi-period archaeological settlement on the southern Mainland of Shetland, Scotland. Successive occupati...

Scotland Bronze Age Shetland Norse

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Bandelier National Monument

A national monument in New Mexico, USA, preserving Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings and the village of Tyuonyi inhabit...

USA 13TH Century New Mexico Cliff Dwellings

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