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Forum of Rome

The Forum of Rome was the central public space of ancient Rome. This expansive area hosted significant civic life for ov...

Italy Urban Ancient Roman

9.1 Excellent

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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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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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Akrotiri

Akrotiri is a highly preserved Bronze Age Minoan settlement located on the Greek island of Santorini, buried by a catast...

Volcanic Greece Bronze Age Santorini

8.8 Great

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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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Templo Mayor

The central Aztec temple of Tenochtitlan, now beneath Mexico City, dedicated to Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc; excavated fr...

Urban Sacred Mexico 15TH Century

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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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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Jerash

Jerash in northern Jordan is one of the best-preserved Greco-Roman provincial cities in the Near East, featuring a colon...

Urban Roman Jordan Decapolis

8.2 Great

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Catalhoyuk

Çatalhöyük in south-central Turkey is one of the world's earliest and largest Neolithic settlements, occupied from appro...

Turkey Urban Settlement Neolithic

8.2 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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Timgad

Roman colonial city in modern Algeria founded by Emperor Trajan in 100 CE, notable for its strict orthogonal grid plan,...

Urban North Africa Roman Algeria

8.2 Great

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Cahokia Mounds

Largest known pre-Columbian city north of Mexico, near modern Collinsville, Illinois, peaking around 1100 CE and dominat...

USA Urban Pre Columbian Mound

8.0 Great

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Djemila

Roman city in northeastern Algeria (ancient Cuicul), founded in the 1st century CE, preserving temples, a theater, and a...

Urban North Africa Roman Algeria

8.0 Great

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Dougga

Best-preserved Roman town in North Africa, located in northern Tunisia, featuring a 2nd-century CE Capitol temple, a the...

Urban North Africa Tunisia 3RD Century

8.0 Great

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Liangzhu

Late Neolithic site near Hangzhou, China (c. 3300–2300 BCE), noted for sophisticated jade bi discs and cong tubes; inscr...

China Urban Neolithic Jade

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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Aquincum

Aquincum was an ancient Roman city located in modern Budapest, Hungary, serving as the capital of Pannonia Inferior and...

Urban Roman Hungary Danube

7.3 Good